Unit GREEK HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A001311
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e storia
- Teacher
- Massimo Nafissi
- Teachers
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- Massimo Nafissi
- Hours
- 72 ore - Massimo Nafissi
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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
- The program for students who take a 6 CFU exam is limited to points 1-2; for classical literature students who take a 12-credit exam, it includes points 1, 2, 3; for other students wishing to obtain 12 credits, it includes points 1, 2, and 4. Further reading is required for non-attending students (5).
1. An introduction to Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the Battle of Actium.
2. Basic knowledge of the works of Herodotus and Thucydides.
3. Strabo’s Magna Graecia.
4. Readings in place of point 3.
5. Readings for non-attending students. - Reference texts
- 1. Handbook: M. Bettalli (ed.), Storia Greca, 3rd. ed., Carocci, Roma, 2021.
An historical atlas.
2.
Herodotus:
- students attending the curriculum of Classics, D. Asheri, Introduzione generale, in Id. (a cura di), Erodoto. Le Storie, l. I. La Lidia e la Persia, Milano, Fond. Valla - Mondadori, 1988, pp. IX-LXIX;
- all other students: M. Bettalli, Erodoto, in M. Bettalli (a cura di), Introduzione alla storiografia greca, nuova ed. Roma 2009, pp. 47-66.
Thucydides: F. Ferrucci, Tucidide, in M. Bettalli (a cura di), Introduzione alla storiografia greca, nuova ed. Roma 2009, pp. 67-96.
3.
Strabo’s Magna Graecia.
Reading, translation, essential commentary of some passages from Strabo 6.1 and 6.3.
The bibliography will be indicated during the lessons.
4. Substitute readings.
Students taking courses other than classics who want to achieve 12 credits are required to read a book chosen from the following two:
- M.H. Hansen, La democrazia ateniese nel IV secolo a.C. (trad. it. A. Maffi), LED, Milano 2003, pp. 133-388;
- M. Giangiulio, Democrazie greche, Carocci, Roma 2015;
or all of the following articles or book chapters
- M. Nafissi, Forme di controllo a Sparta, «Il Pensiero Politico», XL 2, 2007, 329-344
- M. Nafissi, Krypteiai spartane, in A. Beltrán, I. Sastre, M. Valdés (dir.), Los espacios de la esclavitud y la dependencia en la Antigüedad, Homenaje a Domingo Plácido, Actas del XXXV coloquio GIREA, Madrid 2015, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté 2012, 201-229.
- H.-J. Gehrke, Incontri di culture: l'ellenismo, in Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, dir. A. Barbero, vol. IV, a cura di M. Giangiulio, Roma 2008, pp. 651-702.
- A. Magnetto, I rapporti tra i diversi soggetti politici: la diplomazia internazionale, in M. Mari, a cura di, L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci 2019, 81-106.
- M. Mari, I linguaggi della politica e i culti dei sovrani, in M. Mari, a cura di, L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci 2019, 107-131.
5. Students of any course of study attending less than 60% of the lessons who intend to obtain 6, 9 or 12 credits are required to read one of the following monographsSubstitute readings.
Students taking courses other than classics who want to achieve 12 credits are required to read a book chosen from the following four:
-Agli studenti non frequentanti, di qualunque corso di studio, è prescritta la lettura di una delle seguenti monografie:
- M.H. Hansen, La democrazia ateniese nel IV secolo a.C. (trad. it. A. Maffi), LED, Milano 2003, pp. 133-388;
- M. Giangiulio, Democrazie greche, Carocci, Roma 2015;
- M. Giangiulio (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia greca, Il Mulino, Bologna 2021, 15-262;
- M. Lupi, Sparta. Storia e rappresentazioni di una città greca. Carocci, Roma, 2017.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- Knowledge
• Knowledge of the general lines of Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the battle of Actium. Clear knowledge of the succession of events and of the different phases of the historical development and of the geographical frameworks in which they take place.
• General knowledge of the political and social institutions and the culture of the Greek world, in their local and temporal diversities, with particular reference to Athens and Sparta.
• Knowledge of the work of Herodotus and Thucydides, the essential features of classical historiography and its use for knowledge of the past.
• First rudiments in the analysis of a classical text of historic content
• For students sustaining the 12 CFU Classical Literature course history of Magna Graecia and bibliographical tools for reading and commenting on Strabo's text. For students sustaining the 12 CFU examination of other courses history of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War and bibliographical tools for reading and commenting on Lysias' orations and Xenophon's Hellenics.
Applying knowledge and understanding:
• Using a language appropriate for the description of historical phenomena of the ancient world, as well as possessing general and specific concepts necessary to describe these phenomena.
• Ability to express - when necessary - the complex, problematic, and hypothetical character of historic reconstructions.
• Ability to reflect upon historical phenomena and processes, within the limits posed by a non-analytical knowledge of the same.
• Acquire sensitivity to an approach under which historiographic sources are not passive reports of events, but expression of historical thought and forms of narrative construction, and elaboration of preexisting traditions and oral accounts. - Prerequisites
- No special requirements, except a basic knowledge of the Greek language and its most common lexicon for students attending the curriculum of classics. Students in the curriculum of classics that take a final exam without having studied the Greek language in high school must demonstrate that they have embarked on a path of learning thereof.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures. Reading sources and documents in Italian translation.
- Other information
- Attendance checked by roll call. Supplementary readings are imposed to students who attend less than 60% of lessons. Attendance by working students is not checked.
- Learning verification modality
- The final assessment consists of an interview
- Verification of knowledge.
- Level of oral exposition skills: clarity and propriety of language, particularly in reference to key-concepts in the description of the institutions and social phenomena, political and cultural and historical development; ability to express complex concepts and hypotheses; synthesis ability; for students in the curriculum of classics, knowledge of Greek and translation of texts listed in the syllabus.
The test typically takes 30'-40 ' - Extended program
- 1. An introduction to Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the Battle of Actium. Chronological and geographical framework, political and social institutions, political and cultural history.
2. Personal reading (in translation) of one of the books from Herodotus' Histories and one from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. An adequate information on Herodotus, Thucydides and their works is also required.
3. Strabo and Magna Graecia.
Strabo, the Augustan geographer, is one of the most important literary sources for our knowledge of the history of Greek southern Italy, and thus of one of those subjects where the history of the Greeks and that of our country overlap. Through Strabo's work, Magna Graecia appears in its essential features; he selects the data that he considers indispensable for an educated man of the Greco-Roman society of the time; from his perspective, the origins and the great past of the colonial cities are confronted with a profoundly changed present. Students will be expected to have the knowledge and ability to propose a historical and literary commentary on the texts discussed in class. A precise list of a limited number of passages to be read and translated from Greek will be provided.
4. Lysias and the regime of the Thirty Tyrants (Prof. Emilio ROSAMILIA).
Reading in Italian and basic commentary on Lysias 12 and Xenophon, Hellenics II 2.10-4.43. By reading the texts in translation, the student will be able to approach a crucial moment in the history of Athens, entering into the heart of dramatic events, also on a personal level.