2019/2020

2019/2020

DM270

L-ANT/02 (STORIA GRECA)

DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI UMANISTICI

THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD. HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

Primo Semestre (23/09/2019 - 23/12/2019)

6

36 ore di attività frontale

INGLESE

ORALE

ZIZZA CESARE (titolare) - 1 CFU
GANDINI ALBERTO - 4 CFU
MARANESI ALESSANDRO - 1 CFU

Students attending the course are expected to have an overall knowledge of the historical and geographical development of Ancient Greek civilization. The students who believe not to have this background knowledge please refer to the Bibliography here below.

Upon completion of the course students will be expected to:
- have an advanced knowledge about themes and aspects of Ancient Greek history and historiography.
- be able to read, understand and analyse different sources of the historical research, with a special focus on historiographic and epigraphical documents;
- demonstrate an advanced awareness of the differences between history and (ideological) representation;
- demonstrate an advanced awareness of the relationship between history, rhetoric and documents in ancient sources.

Title: Founding and Re-founding the Greek Polis
This course explores how the historical problem of city foundation has been dealt with over the course of Ancient Greek civilization.
After some preliminary remarks on the concept of polis and on the main models and interpretative approaches developed by modern scholarship on Greek colonization, attention will be paid to the issue of polis foundation, seen as a social, political, and cultural phenomenon.
The first half of the course will analyse in-depth relevant case studies related to polis-led initiatives of the Archaic and Classical world. The second half of the course, instead, will focus on the issue of the dynastic urbanization of the Hellenistic Age and of Late Antiquity Constantinople.

- Frontal lessons
- Discussions
- Problem solving
- Analysis and translation of Greek texts
- Use of computer tools and interactive maps
- Visits to museums, archaeological sites and historic cities
- seminars and/or lessons by Visiting Professors and/or framework of International Winter Schools

The course consists mainly in a series of lectures delivered in person by the professors in English. A special attention will be accorded to ancient literary and epigraphical sources, which will be presented in English translation; they will be read and fully discussed in class and will therefore be an integral part of the course.
The last week of the course will be dedicated to oral presentations given by attending students.

All students (mandatory):
- Irad Malkin, Inside and Outside: Colonization and the Formation of the Mother City, in Annali di Archeologia e Storia Antica, N.S. 1 (1994), pp. 1-9.
- Judith Herrin, Byzantium. The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, London 2008, pp. 3-32; 119-130.

Students with NO initial proficient level of knowledge in Greek History (mandatory):
- Sarah B. Pomeroy et al., Ancient Greece. A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Oxford University Press 1999: a selection of chapters to be agreed with the professors.
in alternative:
- Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece. From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Yale University Press 20132: chapters 4-10.

Students with initial proficient level of knowledge in Greek History:
- an alternative bibliography to be agreed with the professors.

Non-Attending Students:
- Bibliography to be agreed with the professors via email (see below).

Further mandatory readings for the written paper to be agreed with the professors in class.

Attending students:
- Oral presentation given during the course and final written paper on a topic chosen among those proposed by the professors (50% of the final mark);
- Final oral exam (50% of the final mark).

Non-attending students:
- Final written paper (40% of the final mark)
- Final oral exam (60% of the final mark).

The final written is required:
- to be max. 12.000 characters long (without spaces), equivalent of 5 pages in A4 format;
- to be submitted electronically in pdf format (alberto.gandini@unipv.it) at least 10 days before the date of the oral exam; papers arriving late will not be admitted;
- to be discussed during the final oral exam.

The final exam will assess:
- the knowledge and the critical understanding of both the course contents and the assigned Bibliography (see below);
- answering accuracy and organization of contents;
- the language propriety;
- the clarity of expression;
- the argumentative efficacy.

- Professors:
C. Zizza (6h; 1 CFU)
A. Gandini (24h; 4 CFU)
A. Maranesi (6h; 1 CFU)
- Tutors:
G.B. Magnoli Bocchi
S.A. Brioschi

- Materials will be made available on Kiro or given in class

- All other bibliographic resources are available at the Library of Humanistic Studies (Pavia, Piazza del Lino, 1)

- Students who are unable to attend the course are asked compulsory to contact directly the professors (alberto.gandini@unipv.it) to agree upon an alternative Bibliography.