90-92, United Kingdom
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Introduction
If you think your school life is demanding, spare a thought for the Spartans. At seven, boys left home and entered a public "boarding-school" educational system to produce warriors. Girls, unusually for the ancient world, also received formal education and would learn how to wrestle, throw the javelin and fight with their fists. To toughen them up, boys were expected to steal their food and to sleep on beds made from reeds they had plucked themselves from the riverbanks. They too then had to pass all-important examinations testing their physical resilience, fighting skills and discipline at the age of eighteen.
By studying Ancient History, you will gain a rich understanding not only of Greece and Rome themselves but the peoples of unknown and mysterious worlds" that they encountered. For example, you will look at Celtic Britain with its woad-painted warriors and fire-enchanted Druids and how the Romans subdued it. The course will introduce you to the conflicts between the Greek city-states and between Greece and Persia. You will study the shift from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire and the complex social changes it brought about.