2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

L-ANT/02 (GREEK HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

Lettere antiche

1°

(27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

ZIZZA CESARE (titolare) - 6 ECTS

No prerequisites are required

The course aims to provide knowledges about the most significant themes and aspects of the ancient Greek history with a closer focus on the relationship beetween Greeks and the barbarian "other" and on the representation of "barbarity" Greek thought from the first encounters with non-Greek peoples down to the mid-fourth century. Emphasis will be put on the method of analysis of different sources (literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidences). A part of the course shall be dedicated to the study of the historiography and to the ‘documentary’ material used by greek historians in their works

Lectures aim to present the outlines and the main problems of Greek history from the formation of the palaces in Crete up to the Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), with a closer focus on the history of Greek religion.
Particular attention will be devoted to the study of some particular aspect of Greek historiography (from the origin of greek historiography to Xenophon)
Literary and historical sources shall be read in the original languages, traslated in italian and commentated.

Lectures
Problem solving
Analysis and translations of greek sources.
Use of Interactive Maps of Ancient Greece.

1.
- C. Bearzot, Manuale di storia greca, il Mulino, Bologna, 2015 (nuova edizione)
- M. Bettalli (a cura di), Storia greca, Carocci Editore, Roma, 2006
- Storia greca (a cura di L. Breglia, F. Guizzi, F. Raviola), EdiSES, Bologna, 2014.
2.
Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a c. di M. Bettalli, Carocci, Roma, 2009 (nuova edizione): pag. 1-121

Oral examination

Oral examination