Ancient History and Philosophy

About this course

Ancient history and philosophy is a combination that brings together the rigorous study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds with the oldest and most fundamental of the intellectual disciplines. Ancient history asks what life was like in the civilisations that laid the foundations of Western culture, exploring periods from the emergence of Greek city-states in the eighth century BCE through the Roman empire to its collapse in the fifth century CE. Philosophy traces the origins of systematic inquiry into knowledge, reality, ethics and justice, much of it in the same ancient world you will be studying historically. At the University of St Andrews you will engage with ancient history across a wide geographical canvas, from the Mediterranean and the Near East to the Persian Gulf and the edges of Rome's northern frontier. You will work with primary sources, including literary texts, inscrip

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