2018/2019

2018/2019

DM270

L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CARSANA CHIARA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

General knowledge of the history of the Roman Republic

- The course aims at stimulating a critical approach and independence of judgement.
- Acquisition of critical methodology in analysing ancient sources.

- Critical reconstruction of the Age of Augustus.
The lectures will be devoted to ancient sources: inscriptions and selected passages of Roman and Greek historians will be read (in Italian translation) and commented on, in order to outline and examine thoroughly the main political stages of the history of the Augustan Age

Frontal lectures, sided by handouts and power point presentations.

One among the following books:

1) Fergus Millar, Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects, Clarendon Paperbacks, 1984.
2) Werner Eck, The Age of Augustus, Ed. Wiley, 2007.
3) Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, The University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Oral Examination

Programme for students not attending lectures:

a) Res Gestae Divi Augusti (in Italian or English translation, with Introduction and notes).
b) Tacitus., Annals, book I, chapters 1-10 (in Italian or English Translation, with an Introduction about Tacitus and his Annals).

c) Two among the following books about Augustus:

1) Fergus Millar, Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects, Clarendon Paperbacks, 1984.
2) Werner Eck, The Age of Augustus, Ed. Wiley, 2007.
3) Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, The University of Michigan Press, 1990.


For the students not attending lectures of Dr. Alessandro Maranesi:
- chapter 16 of handbook 1 or chapters 20 of handbook 2.