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  1. Faculty of Humanities
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  4. Ancient Natural History
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Last Updated: 23/03/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
TAR464 - Ancient Natural History VIII. SEMESTER 2 +0 4.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) ARAŞ. GÖR. DR. NURİ CAN UÇAR
Mode of Delivery This course is conducted only through in-person instruction.
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Prerequisites This course has no prerequisites or co-requisites.
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Recommended Resources Hesiodos, İşler ve Günler; Strabon, Geographika; Hippokrates, Airs, Waters, Places; Aristoteles, History of Animals; Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants; Vitruvius, De Architectura; Plinius, Naturalis Historia; Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones; Pausanias, Description of Greece; Aelianus, De Natura Animalium; Varro, De Re Rustica; Columella, De Re Rustica; Lukas Thommen, An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press; Peregrine Horden-Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, Blackwell Publishers; J. Donald Hughes, Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean, Johns Hopkins University Press; Thorsten Fögen-Edmund V. Thomas, Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, De Gruyter; Julia Kindt, Animals in Ancient Greek Religion, Routledge; Peter Garnsey, Food and Society in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press; Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine, Routledge; Kevin Greene, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy, University of California Press; G. E. R. Lloyd, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (Ancient Culture and Society), WW Norton & Co.; Roger French, Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature (Sciences of Antiquity), Routledge; Jack London, Adem’den Önce, İndigo Kitap; Yuval Noah Harari, Hayvanlardan Tanrılara Sapiens: İnsan Türünün Kısa Bir Tarihi, çev. Ertuğrul Genç, Kolektif Kitap; Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: Yarının Kısa Bir Tarihi, çev. Poyzan Nur Taneli, Kolektif Kitap; V. Gordon Childe, Tarihte Neler Oldu?, çev. Alaeddin Şenel, Kırmızı Yayınları; V. Gordon Childe, İnsan Kendini Nasıl Yarattı?, çev. İbrahim Yıldız, Dipnot Yayınevi; Jared Diamond, Tüfek Mikrop ve Çelik, çev. Ülker İnce, Pegasus Yayınları; J. Donald Hughes, Çevresel Tarih Nedir?, çev. M. Fatih Çalışır, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları; Joachim Radkau, Doğa ve İktidar: Global Bir Çevre Tarihi, çev. Nafiz Güder, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları; Lionel Casson, Antik Çağda Seyahat, çev. Nalan Özsoy, MB Yayınevi; Fikret Yegül, Roma Dünyasında Yıkanma, Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları; Moses I. Finley, Antik Çağ Ekonomisi, çev. Hatice Palaz Erdemir, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları; Andrew Dalby-Sally Grainger, Antik Çağ Yemekleri ve Yemek Kültürü, çev. Betül Avunç, Homer Kitabevi; Jean-Pierre Vernant, Antik Yunan’da Mit ve Düşünce, çev. Nazım Can Serbest, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları; Mircea Eliade, Kutsal ve Kutsal-Dışı: Dinin Doğası, çev. Ali Berktay, Alfa Yayınları; Mircea Eliade, Mitlerin Özellikleri, çev. Sema Rıfat, Alfa Yayınları.
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Aims of the Course

Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Perception of nature in the ancient world: Geography and climate
Week - 2 From gathering to cultivation: The agricultural revolution and plants
Week - 3 From nomadism to settled life: Space and dwelling
Week - 4 From hunting to domestication: Animals
Week - 5 The discovery of leisure time: The first professions, the first productions
Week - 6 The invention of property: The formation of material culture
Week - 7 Midterm Exam
Week - 8 City: From early villages to metropolises
Week - 9 Sharing nature: From barter to coin trade
Week - 10 The inability to share nature: War from stone axes to legions
Week - 11 Harmony with nature: Health, medicine and hygiene
Week - 12 Dominating nature: Technology from stone tools to apartment buildings
Week - 13 From nature philosophers to Church Fathers: Thought, mythologies and beliefs
Week - 14 Final Exam

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