Ancient mythology and modernity
Course: International Economy
Structural unit: Faculty of Economics
Title
Ancient mythology and modernity
Code
ВБ 2.1.3
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
7 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO15. To demonstrate the basic skills of creative and critical thinking in research and professional communication
PLO 22. To demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in new situations, in working with new objects and in uncertain conditions.
PLO 23. To show skills of independent work, demonstrate critical, creative, self-critical thinking.
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know main terms and concepts, peculiarities and specific features of primitive and ancient art.
To be able to characterize main stages of historical and cultural development of the ancient world.
To possess skills of source criticism, historical analyzes, setting the cause-and-effect relationship.
Course content
The course “Mythology in the art of European communities” reveals the specific features of religion and mythology of the Ancient Europe as well as the influence of such beliefs on arts of Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. Using written sources, objects of visual arts, archaeology and epigraphy, students examine mythology of ancient ethnic and cultural communities, including the earliest European rural population, Early Indo-Europeans, Ancient Greeks and Italians, Scythians, Thracians, Celts, Germans, Early Slavs.
Special attention is paid to the artifacts of ancient art that reflect mindset and beliefs of Ancient Europeans as well as reception of the ancient religious culture in the visual arts of modernity.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Garrow, D., Gosden, C., Hill, J.D. (eds.), 2014, Rethinking Celtic Art. Oxford: Havertown.
Graham-Campbell, J., 2013, Viking art. London: Thames & Hudson.
Lewis-Williams, J. D., 1996, Harnessing the Brain: Vision and Shamanism in Upper Paleolithic Western Europe. In: M.W. Conkey, O. Sopher, D. Stratmann, N.G. Jablonski (Eds.), Beyond art: Pleistocene image and symbol, Berkeley: University of California Press, P. 321–342.
Vertienko H., 2015, Iconography of Scythian eschatology. Kyiv: Institute of Oriental Studies named after A. Yu. Crimean National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, student’s individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral presentation, test, essay
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
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Departments
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