2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

Storico

1°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CARSANA CHIARA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Elementary knowledge of Latin. Good knowledge of the history of the Roman Republic.

Acquisition of critical methodology in analysing historical and philosophical ancient works.

Planning the ideal city in the late Roman Republic. Cicero's De re publica: philosophical reflection, constitutional theory, historical reconstruction and political strategies.
After a general background-information on Cicero and the historical and political milieu in which the De re publica was conceived and composed, the De re publica will be read and commented from a historical and political perspective. The final part of the course will be devoted to an investigation of the impact of Cicero -and above all his De re publica- on the composition of Utopia by Thomas More.

Lectures, in which students will take active part (student presentations)

Handbook:
Giuseppe Zecchini, Il pensiero politico romano dall'età arcaica alla tarda antichità, ed. Carocci, 2017.

Bibliography:
Cicerone, La repubblica, a cura di Francesca Nenci, BUR 2010.
Chiara Carsana, La città ideale del De re publica di Cicerone tra memoria sogno e utopia, "Politica Antica" 5, 2015, pp. 13-40.
Chiara Carsana - Cesare Zizza, La fondazione di Roma nel De Re Publica: uso e abuso della storia in Cicerone, in R. Cristofoli, A. Galimberti, F. Rohr Vio (a cura di), Costruire la memoria. Uso e abuso della storia fra tarda repubblica e primo principato (Atti del Convegno Internazionale: Venezia, 14-15 gennaio 2016), Roma 2017, pp. 59-93.

Oral examination.