Not offered in 1996. 25.0 1st year Associate Professor R T Ridley. Double semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. To allow students to place each of the great civilisations of the Mediterranean from Egypt to Rome (3000 BC - A. D 100) in context and perspective; to provide basic training in source criticism and essay writing; to raise some of the fundamental questions in the philosophy of history. The Ancient Near East and Greece and Rome: politics, religion, society, law, economics, literature and art. Tutorial participation (10%), two essays (each of 3,000 words) (40%), two 3-hour examination papers (50%), totalling no more than 8,000 words. Gardiner A H Egypt of the Pharaohs Oxford, 1969 Kramer S N The Sumerians Chicago, 1963 Saggs H Greatness that was Babylon London, 1988 Bury J History of Greece Macmillan, 1975 Lewis N and Reinhold M Roman Civilisation (2 Vols) New York, 1966 Not offered in 1996. 25.0 Associate Professor R T Ridley. Double semester. Two lectures and a tutorial each week. To allow students to place each of the great civilisations of the Mediterranean from Egypt to Rome (3000 BC - A. D. 100) in context and perspective; to provide basic training in source criticism and essay writing; to raise some of the fundamental questions in the philosophy of history. The Ancient Near East and Greece and Rome: politics, religion, society, law, economics, literature and art. Tutorial participation (10 per cent); two essays (each of 3,000 words) (40 per cent); two 3-hour examination papers (50 per cent). Totalling no more than 8,000 words. Gardiner A H Egypt of the Pharaohs Oxford, 1969 Kramer S N The Sumerians Chicago, 1963 Saggs H Greatness that was Babylon London, 1988 Bury J History of Greece Macmillan, 1975 Lewis N and Reinhold M Roman Civilisation (2 Vols) New York, 1966