Information Package / Course Catalogue
History of Rome
Course Code: TAR138
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

Giving a comphrehensive panorama of Roman World in a physical and cultural stage in order to locate Roman History in Universal History.

Course Content

Knowledge of the social, political and cultural values that formed the Roman Civilization and evaluation of their effect to world history.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Hüseyin ÜRETEN
Learning Outcomes
1.to be able to explain Western World inherited to valueable heritage from Antiquity and one of them was “omnipotent state” from Romans.
2.to be able to comprehend Roman History was the last scene of Antiquity.
3.to be able to explain continuity of Roman History between ending and starting ages.
4.to be able to comprehend impossibility of establishing a modern political union in Mediterranean but to show Romans was the first who achived to realize complete domination in mentioned basin.
5.to be able to show the importance of Roman History in Universal History.
6. to be able to evaluate Christian Byzantine Empire both from social and political angles by learning Roman History.
7. to be able to compare and contrast Roman Empire with Byzantine Empire which survived for one thousand years following the collapse of Roman Empire in the West.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.B. İplikçioğlu, Hellen ve Roma Tarihinin Anahatları, İstanbul, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 2007.
2.H. Demircioğlu, Roma Tarihi I.Cilt: Cumhuriyet, Ankara, TTK Yayınları, 1993.
3.O. Tekin, Eski Yunan ve Roma Tarihine Giriş, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2008.
4.P. Brown, Geç Antikçağ’da Roma ve Bizans Dünyası, çeviren Turhan Kaçar, İstanbul, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2000.
5.C. Diehl, Bizans İmparatorluğunun Tarihi, Çeviri A. Göke Bozkurt, İstanbul, İlgi Yayınları, 2006.
6.G. Ostrogorsky, Bizans Devleti Tarihi, Türkçeye Çeviren Prof. Dr. Fikret Işıltan, Ankara, TTK Yayınları, 1999.
7.K. Taşdöner, Anadolu'da Roma Eyaletleri: Augustus Dönemi, İstanbul, Bilge Kültür Sanat Yayınları, 2007.
8.Historia Augusta, Roma İmparatorları: Hadrianus'tan Clodius Albinus'a, Latince Aslından Çeviren: Samet Özgüler, İstanbul, Kronik, 2021.
9.Historia Augusta, Roma İmparatorları: Antoninus Caracalla'dan Calvinus Balbinus'a, Latince Aslından Çeviren: Samet Özgüler, İstanbul, Kronik, 2022.
10.Historia Augusta, Roma İmparatorları: Valerianus'tan Carinus'a, Latince Aslından Çeviren: Samet Özgüler, İstanbul, Kronik, 2022
11.F. Meijer, İmparatorlar Yataklarında Ölmez, Çeviren: Gürkan Ergin, İstanbul, Homer Kitabevi, 2006.
12.M. Tozan, Roma'nın Anadolu'daki Egemenlik Politikası: Kentler ve Bağımlı Krallıklar (İ.Ö. 133-İ.Ö. 89), İstanbul, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 2016.
13.N. Faulkner, Roma: Kartalların İmparatorluğu, İngilizceden Çeviren: Çağdaş Sümer, İstanbul, Yordam Yayınları, 2015.
14.U. Eco, Antik Roma, Çeviri: Leyla Tonguç Basmacı, İstanbul, Alfa Yayınları, 2021.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Informing about the course subject, object and borders, to give bibliographical informations, concerning course content.
Week 2 - Theoretical
History of Italy Before the Establishment of the Rome: Geography and Folks
Week 3 - Theoretical
Etruscans: Political History, State and Community in Etruscans, Civilization and Culture in Etruscans
Week 4 - Theoretical
Archaic Period of Roman Kingdom
Week 5 - Theoretical
Foundation of Republic and Political Domination in Latium:
Week 6 - Theoretical
Foreign and Domestic Politic Events
Week 7 - Theoretical
Devolopment, Spread of Roman Empire - Empire - Principatus Period: Iulio Claudius Dynasty.
Week 8 - Theoretical
Empire - Principatus Period: Iulio Claudius Dynasty.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Period of Adopted Emperors and Antonian Dynasty.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Severan Dynasty and General Emperors.
Week 11 - Theoretical
Empire-Dominatus Period.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Constantinus Dynasty and End of the Tetrarchy.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Valentinianus and Theodosius Dynasty - Divided Empire: Western Roman Empire.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Divided Empire: Eastern Roman Empire
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Assignment2024
Reading140114
Midterm Examination112214
Final Examination118220
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)80
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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3
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2
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026