2014/2015

2016/2017

DM270

L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

3°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

BARGNESI RODOLFO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basics of Roman History

Knowledge of the basic aspects of Roman organization of the landscape in northern Italy

The Romanization of northern Italy: outline of history; the invasion of Italy by the Cimbri and the defeat at Vercellae;

the beginnings of historical studies on northern Italy in Rome: Cato and Polybius; northern Italy in Strabo's Geography and Pliny the Elder's Natural History;

introduction to Greek and Roman cartography; the Tabula Peutingeriana;

the roads of northern Italy in Roman times: an overview; the Roman itineraries; the testimony of epigraphy; the inland waterway system of northern Italy; lakes and rivers of northern Italy in the ancient literary sources;

the "geometrical landscape": land divisions in pre-Roman age; Roman land divisions in northern Italy; their orientation and correspondence to the specific geographical feature of the territories;

Some examples of Roman organization of landscape relating to this area: Tortona, Pavia, Bergamo and Como.

Lectures

E. Gabba, La conquista della Gallia Cisalpina, in Storia di Roma II.1, Torino 1990, pp. 69-77;

P. Tozzi, Gli inizi della riflessione storiografica sull’Italia settentrionale nella Roma del II secolo a.C., in L’Italia settentrionale nell’età antica, «Athenaeum», fasc. spec. 1976, pp. 28-50;

P. Tozzi, L’Italia settentrionale di Strabone, in Strabone e l’Italia antica, a cura di G. Maddoli, Napoli 1988, pp. 25-43;

P. Tozzi, Viabilità romana nell’Italia settentrionale, in L’antica Via Regina: tra gli itinerari stradali e le vie d’acqua del comasco, Como 1995, pp. 11-34;

P. Tozzi-R. Bargnesi, Tortona in età romana: il territorio, in Dertona Historia Patriae. Storia di Tortona dalla preistoria ad oggi II, Tortona 2006, pp. 25-70;

S. Vassalli, Terre selvagge. Campi Raudii, Milano 2014.

In addition to the above bibliography, students who have not attended the lectures must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the following literature: Tabula Peutingeriana: le antiche vie del mondo, a cura di F. Prontera, Firenze 2003; Misurare la terra: centuriazione e coloni nel mondo romano, Modena 1983; P. Tozzi, Pavia e le vie delle Gallie, Pavia 1998; P. Tozzi, Pavia: i fili della memoria, Pavia 2007.

Oral examination

Oral examination