DSMgrB14 Sporting, Military, and Ethical Ideals from Antiquity to the Chivalric Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Bc. Jiří Kouřil, M.Sc., Ph.D. et Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jarmila Bednaříková, CSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 9. 4. 15:50–19:05 U36, Mon 23. 4. 15:50–19:05 U36, Mon 7. 5. 15:50–19:05 U36
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the history of the ancient world.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course focuses on ideals that shaped ancient society, ideals that are difficult to explain by mere translation. Not only facts but also stories from the lives of prominent men of antiquity and the Middle Ages will serve as a model for the interpretation of these ideals.
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- describe and to orientate in the ideals that formed the ancient society,
- explain the essence of the ideals whose simple translation may be inadequate,
- know the difference between individual ideals,
- influence at least part of their lives according to learned and understandable ideals,
- orientate in the primary sources and specialist literature dealing with this topic.
Syllabus
  • Andreia
  • Aristeia promachon
  • Aristeion
  • Arete
  • Ekecheiria
  • Habrosyne
  • Isonomia
  • Kalokagathia
  • Sophrosyne
  • Time
  • Hybris, pleonexia, atimia, ...
  • Virtus
  • Chivalry, courteousness
  • Comparison and displaying of these ideals and anti-ideals on the persons like Achilleus, Alcibiades, Agesilaus II, Alexander the Great, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Cato the Elder, Richard the Lionheart, Jean II Le Maingre (Boucicaut), ...
  • ...
Literature
    required literature
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Magna moralia. Edited by Antonín Kříž - Petr Rezek. 2. vyd. Praha: Rezek, 2010, 135 s. ISBN 8086027341. info
  • HOMÉROS. Ílias. Translated by Otmar Vaňorný. 12. vyd. Praha: Petr Rezek, 2007, 598 s. ISBN 8086027252. info
  • PLATÓN. Gorgias. Translated by František Novotný. 4., opr. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2000, 129 s. ISBN 807298005X. info
  • PLATÓN. Ústava. Translated by František Novotný. 2. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1996, xxxix, 359. ISBN 8086005283. info
  • Contemporary athletics and ancient Greek ideals. Edited by Daniel A. Dombrowski. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 167 p. ;. ISBN 9780226155494. info
  • Kalokagathia : ideál, nebo flatus vocis? Edited by Radim Šíp. Brno: Paido, 2008, 92 stran. ISBN 9788073151645. info
  • VERNANT, Jean-Pierre. Počátky řeckého myšlení. Translated by Miloš Rejchrt. 1. vyd. Praha: ISE, 1993, 87 s. ISBN 8085241455. info
    recommended literature
  • Antické válečné umění. 1. vyd. v tomto souboru. Praha: Svoboda, 1977, 618 s. URL info
  • ARISTOTELES, 384-322 př.Kr. Etika Nikomachova [Aristoteles, 1979]. Bratislava: Pravda, 1979. info
  • PLATÓN. Alkibiadés I ;Alkibiadés II ; Hipparchos ; Milovníci. 2. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1996, 133 s. ISBN 80-86005. info
  • XENOFÓN. Anabaze. Translated by Jaroslav Šonka. Praha: Odeon, 1974. info
  • XENOFÓN, nar. 430-425 př. Kr. Lakedaimonské zřízení (Obsaž.) : Řecké dějiny. info
  • XENOFÓN. O Kýrově vychování. Translated by Václav Bahník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1970, 342 s. URL info
  • XENOFÓN. Vzpomínky na Sókrata. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1972, 450 s. URL info
  • HOGENOVÁ, Anna. Areté : základ olympijské filozofie. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 164 s. ISBN 8024600463. info
  • JAEGER, Werner. Das frühe Christentum und die griechische Bildung. Translated by Walther Eltester. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1963, 127 s. info
  • JAEGER, Werner. Paideia : die Formung des griechischen Menschen. 2., ungekürzter photomechan. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, 1398 s. ISBN 3110038005. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, reading, discussion.
Assessment methods
Contest and collective discourse (colloquium) or test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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