Department of Ancient History

Detailed information

Department Head: Professor V.I.Kuzishchin.

The main fields of research and specialization for students of the department are as follows:

• History of Diplomacy and the Military History of the Ancient Middle East

• History of Literature of the Ancient Middle East

• Religion and Culture of Ancient Egypt

• Woman in Ancient Egypt

• Ethnogenesis and Linguogenesis of the Western Semites in the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C.E.

• Hurrian Political Formations in the Ancient Middle East

• History and Culture of Ancient China

• Greek Polis

• Way of Life and Mentality of the Ancient Greeks

• History of State Institutions of Athenian Polis

• History of Ancient Greek Coins

• History and Culture of Greek Towns in the Northern Black Sea Region: Territories of Chersonese and the Bosporus in the Hellenistic Era, Cults in Northern Black Sea Towns, Features of the Political Organization of Bosporus Kingdom

• Economy, Policy and Social Relations in Regions of the Hellenistic East

• Functioning of the Roman Polis (Social and Political Structures)

• Early Roman Religion

• Political History of Rome in the 2nd Century B.C.E.

• History of Early Christianity

• Roman Agrarian Cadastres

• History of Roman Law: Sources, History of Private and State Law, History of Agrarian Law

• Geography of Ancient World

• History of Ancient American Civilizations