Unit GREEK HISTORY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- 35066309
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Emilio Rosamilia
- Teachers
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- Emilio Rosamilia
- Hours
- 54 ore - Emilio Rosamilia
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storiche
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- 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.
3a. The Athenian Empire and [Xenophon], Constitution of the Athenians.
3b. Readings for non-attending students. - Reference texts
- 1. Handbook: M. Bettalli (ed.), Storia Greca, 3rd. ed., Carocci, Roma, 2021.
A historical atlas that pays sufficient attention to the geographical space in which the different phases of Greek history develop.
2. Full reading of one of the nine books of the Stories of Herodotus and of one of the eight books of the Peloponnesian War by Thucy-dides, in any recent translation of their works.
A general introduction to the figures, thought and work of the two historians.
On Herodotus: M. Bettalli, Erodoto, in M. Bettalli (a cura di), Introduzione alla storiogra-fia greca, nuova ed., Roma 2009, pp. 47-66.
On Thucydides: F. Ferrucci, Tucidide, in M. Bettalli (a cura di), Introduzione alla storiografia greca, nuova ed., Roma 2009, pp. 67-96.
3a. Monographic section.
The Athenian Empire: comparing the ancients’ different opinions.
Further readings (essential and recommended) will be suggested during the lectures.
3b. Substitute readings.
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 either one of the two following monographs:
- M.H. Hansen, La democrazia ateniese nel IV secolo a.C. (It. transl. 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» 40.2, 2007, pp. 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, pp. 201-229.
- H.-J. Gehrke, Incontri di culture: l'ellenismo, in A. Barbero (dir.), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. IV, ed. by M. Giangiulio, Roma 2008, pp. 651-702.
- A. Magnetto, I rapporti tra i diversi soggetti politici: la diplomazia internazionale, in M. Mari (ed. by), L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci 2019, pp. 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, pp. 107-131. - 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.
• First rudiments in the analysis of a classical historiographical text; tools for reading and commenting on the text of Herodotus and Thucydides; perspective of the author, oral traditions, and historical reconstruction.
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.
• Sensitivity to an approach under which historiographic sources are not passive reports of events, but expression of historical thought and forms of narrative construction, as well as elaboration of preexisting traditions, either oral narratives or historiographical reconstructions. - Prerequisites
- No special requirements.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, during which ancient sources and documents will be examined in Italian and/or English translation.
- Other information
- For the beginning, schedule, and room of the lessons, see Department Official Pages http://www.lettere.unipg.it/didattica/calendari
Attendance will be 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
- Interview:
- Verification of knowledge, with special reference to points 1, 2, 3a e 3b, of the program.
- 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.
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.
3a. Reading of Thuc. II 35-46. Reading of [Xenophon], Constitution of the Athenians. 3b. Substitute readings (listed above).