Athens: History and Politics
Athens Curriculum Links
Athens Curriculum Links
Ancient History A Level and GCSE
Who Knows? The problem of political knowledge in Athenian Democracy
Dr Carol Atack explores the problem of knowledge and decision making in Athenian Democracy, using the Sicilian Expedition and Alcibiades as examples.
Tyrants in Athens with Daniel Unruh
Dr Daniel Unruh discusses a decree from the city of Athens regarding the punishment of tyrants.
Do Bad Friends MakeYou Go Bad? (James Warren on Socrates and Alcibiades)
Watch this snippet of Dr James Warren’s lecture on Xenophon’s defence of Socrates.
Fake News in Antiquity?
Rome: History and Politics
Rome Curriculum Links
How Can you use the Videos in this section?
Tacitus
The snippets of Dr Gildenhard’s lectures are incredibly useful when discussing using primary sources and historical evidence. The videos are relevant to multiple modules in A Level Ancient History such as The Julio-Claudian Emperors, where Tacitus is an indicated source for the reign of Emperor Nero, and Ruling Roman Britain, and the Flavians where the Histories and the Annals are indicated by OCR as literary evidence All of which use Tacitus as a source.
Rome and its neighbours (Ancient History GCSE) – Professor Mary Beard
In this 30 minute video Professor Mary Beard discusses what the origin story of Rome meant for the Romans.
Why did Tacitus write his Imperial history year by year?
In these two videos, which were recorded during an undergraduate lecture, Dr Ingo Gildenhard discusses Tacitus, consuls, Empire vs Republic, annals and the republican way of thinking about history.
How did Tacitus write his history of Imperial Rome?
What did the Roman principate look like?
Dr Ingo Gildenhard end faculty students discuss power players in Rome.