2018/2019

2018/2019

DM270

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

12

Italian

Section A: General knowledge of the Graeco-Roman civilisation (optional)

Section B: General knowledge of the history of the Roman Republic (Roman History, section A).

- The course aims at stimulating a critical approach and independence of judgement.

- Acquisition of critical methodology in analysing ancient sources.

Section A: After a general introduction about contents and methodology of historical research, the lessons 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 political history of the Roman Republic.

Section B: Critical Reconstruction of the history of the Age of Augustus.
The lessons 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.

1) One among the following handbooks:
A) E. Gabba-D. Foraboschi-D. Mantovani-E. Lo Cascio-L. Troiani, Introduzione alla storia di Roma, Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, Milano 2000 (except for chapters 14, 17, 18, 19 and the first part of chapter 9 until p. 223);
B) M. Pani, E. Todisco, Storia Romana. Dalle origini alla tarda antichità, ed Carocci, 2014. The handbook should be supplemented by two chapters of the handbook A: a) Problemi di metodo per la storia di Roma arcaica (E. Gabba): pp. 13-26; b) Il diritto e la costituzione in età repubblicana (D. Mantovani): only pp. 224-276 about the Roman constitution.

2) One among the following books:

- Fergus Millar, Caesar Augustus. Seven Aspects, Clarendon Paperbacks, 1984.
- Werner Eck, The Age of Augustus, Ed. Wiley, 2007.
- 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 handbook of Roman history (see Testi di riferimento)

Section A:
- M.Crawford, E. Gabba, F. Millar- E. Snoodgrass; Le basi documentarie per lo studio della storia antica. Il Mulino
- VI book of Polybius Histories (in italian translation, ed BUR or Mondadori or Classici Newton).
- On Polybius: L. Canfora, Polibio e la storia universale, in Id., Storia della Letteratura greca, ed. Laterza, pp. 513-529.

Section B:
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 chapter 20 of handbook 2.