Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic discipline
L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (23/09/2019 - 23/12/2019)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of ancient history.
Learning outcomes
Reconstructive and interpretative skills on the basis of an ancient text or a fragmentary text. Historical analysis of sources of various nature (historiography, documents, inscriptions, papyri, archaeological evidence).
Course contents
Roman Egypt. Sources and problems.
Week 1. Conquest before the conquest. Cleopatra's Egypt.
Week 2. The Augustan revolution.
Week 3. From Germanicus to Nero.
Week 4. From the Flavians to Hadrian.
Week 5. From Avidius Cassius to the Severans.
Week 6. Roman Alexandria: Student presentations.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures, student presentation in the form of a brief seminar (15 minutes).
Reccomended or required readings
A.K. Bowman, Egypt after the Pharaohs, 332 BC-AD642, University of California Press 1996.
R.S. Bagnall -- D.W. Rathbone, Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: an Archaeological and Historical Guide, London: British Museum Press 2004.
Extracts from "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt" and "The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology" for those with a higher level in Latin + Greek.
Assessment methods
50% written essay, 50% oral examination.
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