Unit HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT WORLD
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35301806
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Emilio Rosamilia
- Teachers
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- Emilio Rosamilia
- Massimo Nafissi (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 18 ore - Emilio Rosamilia
- 18 ore (Codocenza) - Massimo Nafissi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Regional Perspectives on Strabo's Geography: Sicily and Laconia
- Reference texts
- • Strabo VI 2; VIII 5.
• Federica Cordano, La geografia degli antichi, Roma - Bari: Laterza 1992.
• Francesco Prontera, "Strabo’s Geography", in Serena Bianchetti, Michele R. Cataudella and Hans-Joachim Gehrke (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography. The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition, Leiden - Boston: Brill 2016, pp. 239-258.
• Further readings (essential and recommended) will be suggested during the lectures. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge:
history of geographic literature;
Strabo and his work;
peculiarity of the geographical description in the Strabonian work and in the tradition to which it belongs, and comparison with other ways of describing space; the regions of Italy and Greece under exam in the geographical and literary tradition and in history.
Skills: first ability to analyze texts to recognize the peculiarities of a literary genre, the specific program of an author and the characteristics of a tradition in a regional context. - Prerequisites
- It is useful, but not necessary, to have taken exams of Greek History and Greek Archeology.
- Teaching methods
- Readings.
- Other information
- Beginning, schedule and room of the lessons, see Department Official Pages http://www.lettere.unipg.it/didattica/calendari
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam (ca. 30', after the course). Students of the Classics curriculum are expected to show their ability to translate and comment on passages in Greek, chosen from a list among those examined during the year.
- Extended program
- General introduction to geographic literature and to Strabo;
Sicily and Laconia in Strabo;
Geography, identity and history; Strabo's account and other ways of describing or accounting for space or tackling the problems dealt by him.