Unit ROMAN HISTORY WITH EXERCISES OF LATIN EPIGRAPHY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005966
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Rita Lizzi
- Teachers
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- Rita Lizzi
- Hours
- 72 ore - Rita Lizzi
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Storia, archeologia e storia dell'arte
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Institutions, culture and religion in the Roman society from the eighth century BC to the sixth century AD, through the major events of Ancient Rome and Late Antiquity.
Roman history and current politics: the formation and transformation of republican institutions through the Principatus and the reformed Empire of Diocletian and Constantine
Relationship between Empire and Church - Reference texts
- For attending students:
– A manual chosen from the following:
AA.VV., Storia di Roma, Edizioni del Prisma 2013
G.A. Cecconi, La città e l'Impero, CArocci 2009
G. Clemente, Guida alla storia Romana, Mondadori 2008
G.Geraci-A.Marcone, Storia Romana, Le Monnier 2006
– For the monographic part:
A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Carocci 2017
Who does not attend will have to add a volume to be chosen from:
G. Ravegnani, Ezio, Salerno Editrice 2018
A. Marcone, Augusto, Salerno Editrice 2017
A. Marcone, Giuliano, Salerno Editrice 2019
L. Fezzi, Pompeo, Salerno Editrice 2019
Bettalli-Brizzi (a cura di), Guerre ed eserciti nell’antichità, Il Mulino 2019
A.Marcone, L'ultimo anno dell'Impero. Roma: 476 d.C., Roma Salerno Editrice 2021 - Educational objectives
- The main knowledges that students will acquire:
- The major events in the history of Roman Italy, of Rome in the Republican age, during the Principatus and the Roman Empire, with attention to the diachronic development of events in reference to a geographical framework, constantly compared to modern Europe
- Ancient political institutions (city state, polis, colonies, federal organizations and confederations, provinciae, Empire) and their functioning (popular assemblies with legislative, electoral and judicial rights, republican magistrates, the princeps, the dominus and his officials in the Court and in the provinces of Late Antiquity)
- economic and social issues of Antiquity
- Religious evolution from polytheism to Christianity and the relationship between Empire and Church - Prerequisites
- To follow the lessons of this course, students must have the basic knowledge of Roman history and ancient civilization, which generally is acquired in a good high school. This prerequisite is valid for both attending and not attending students.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Lectures that will cover all the issues and problems related to Roman History They will be preceded by brainstorming and followed by extensive debate-debate. - Other information
- The course will be held in the first semester and is expected to start as of September 27, 2021.
Lessons will be held at Palazzo Manzoni, piazza Morlacchi, 11 - Learning verification modality
- For attending students the exam involves two written tests, held at the end of the course (in December and January) on the established program, and a final oral exam (on the official schedule dates) that consists of a discussion-interview on the topics covered during the course and studied in-depth in recommended texts. The oral examination is used to ascertain the student’s level of knowledge, his ability to make connections and to briefly expose the main historical issues addressed during the course. The duration of the oral final exam varies according to the performance of the student.
- Extended program
- The course will be organized in two parts: an institutional (48 hours) and one dedicated to Latin epigraphy with practical exercises (24 hours).
In the first part the main events and issues of Roman History will be examined from the seventh century BC. C. to the sixth century AD., with particular reference to the institutional and political development of ancient Rome, looking at how such a small city state was able to conquer an Empire as big as the present Europe and to govern it by effectively administering it for many centuries.
In the section devoted to Latin epigraphy, the main arguments for reading, interpreting and dating Latin inscriptions will be addressed, starting with a selection of documents: the various types of writing; Personal names; the cursus honorum; Imperial Titles. Following are the main characters of the different types of inscriptions: epitaphs, dedications to the gods; honorary inscriptions; inscriptions engraved on monuments; public and private epigraphic acts; the instrumentum.