Everything on the multi-award winning OpenLearn is free to everyone! You will examine the inequalities of birth, particularly being born rich or poor and being born female or male. This free course, The body in antiquity, will introduce you to the concept of the body in Greek and Roman civilisation.
In recent years, the body has become a steadily growing field in historical scholarship, and Classical Studies is no exception. It is an aspect of the ancient world that can be explored through a whole host of different types of evidence: art, literature and archaeological artefacts to name but a few.
The way that people fulfil their basic bodily needs and engage in their daily activities is embedded in the social world around them. The body is a subject that can reveal fascinating aspects of both Greek and Roman culture it will help you to better understand the diversity of ancient civilisation. As a society, we are now almost always connected to the internet and rely on it for many different day-to-day activities.
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In this connected world, it is also inevitable that personal information is stored in large-scale government and commercial databases. Unfortunately, breaches of these large-scale databases happen fairly frequently and, when they do, personal information can be leaked which will make you, and millions of others affected, vulnerable to scams and other identity crimes.
