글로벌 히스토리와 서양고대사연구의 변화

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to treat the main changes of Ancient history in the age of Globalization, especially in Europe. What's the difference between the traditional study of the past ages and the changing trends of an era dominated by talk of Globalization. Recent writers have shown from their researches that Ancient historians have always moarned about the state of their subject, claiming that things are getting worse, students are less able, and society is against them. The abolition of compulsory Latin for Oxbridge in 1960 had more severe consequences. In addition, from the inception of British GCSE in 1988, entries for GCSE Latin have declined from that time. In Italia, Latin has been taught only in the upper secondary school(Scuola Media Superiore), from 14 to 18 years of age after 1977. The situation is not better in Germany, not to say the case of France. But the classical past has an enduring contemporary relevance in ‘Global' Europe. Globalization have changed the historiography since the 1990s. Ancient historians began to emphasize the concepts of fluidity, connectedness and networks. Moreover Globalization makes the role of mediterranean more important in the interpretations of ancient history. Now with the change of methodology and view-points, the main study field of the ancient world seems to be changed from the political organizations and socio-economic structures of one unit as a research field, whether it is a race or a nation or a civilization, to the connectedness and fluidity and networks of the mediterranean world. In addition, we should perhaps have more confidence in the ability of our subject to continue to have a presence in the future culture of mankind, not to say the changing working in the global computer networks. The classical civilization can and must be the key for accessing an even wider comparison with ‘other' cultures in a genuinely ‘global' situation.