13770b
Practice seminar
WiSe 23/24: (Ü) Focus on Cultural History: Historiography in Ancient West Asia
Joost Hazenbos
Additional information / Pre-requisites
The course will be in English in two weekly sessions, 4 hours a week. Participants are expected to give an oral presentation and write a term paper. No knowledge of an Ancient Near Eastern language is required. close
Comments
Many rulers of Ancient West Asia made sure that texts were composed that reflected their view of the political history of their reign and often of the history of their predecessors as well. This resulted in a rich historiographical literature, of which the Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions are the most notable examples. As everywhere, also in Ancient West Asia historiography took various forms, and different ways of narrating historical events developed there.
This course will take Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions as starting-point and then move on to different periods and different areas. It will study various aspects of historiography and of dealing with history in general and in Ancient West Asia in particular and discuss the ways in which historiographical texts were transmitted in Ancient West Asia.
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Suggested reading
The course material will be distributed during the course.
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2023-10-19 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-10-26 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-11-02 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-11-09 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-11-16 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-11-23 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-11-30 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-12-07 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-12-14 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2023-12-21 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-01-11 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-01-18 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-01-25 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-02-01 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-02-08 09:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2024-02-15 09:00 - 10:00