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The history of the Greek city-state (polis) is dominated by its most famous pair: Athens and Sparta. Yet in their size, form and character both were also very untypical cities. As examples of the polis, each stood on the ends of a broad spectrum-the radical democracy of Athens opposed the aristocratic warrior polity of the Spartans. This unit examines the culture, institutions, politics and society of these two city-states comparatively by looking at their parallel formation and history in the archaic and classical periods. The unit considers the extraordinary impact these two very different experiments in civic community had on European political consciousness from antiquity to the present.
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Classics and Ancient History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Ancient History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History |
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None |
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ANHS2603 or ANHS2637 or ANHS3637 |
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None |
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Semester 2 2027
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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