Unit GREEK HISTORY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP003421
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Massimo Nafissi
- Teachers
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- Massimo Nafissi
- Emilio Rosamilia (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 36 ore - Massimo Nafissi
- 18 ore (Codocenza) - Emilio Rosamilia
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Storia, archeologia e storia dell'arte
- 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 students who take a 9 CFU exam, it includes points 1, 2, and 3; for students of curricula other than Classics wishing to obtain 12 credits, it includes points 1, 2, 3, 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. Lysias and the regimen of the Thirty Tyrants.
4. Readings in place of point 1.
5. Readings for non-attending students. - Reference texts
- 1. Handbook: M. Bettalli (ed.), Storia Greca, 3rd. ed., Carocci, Roma, 2021.
An historical atlas.
2. A reading in full of one of the nine books of Herodotus' Histories and one of the eight books of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, in any recent translation of their works.
A general introduction to the figures, thought and work of the two historians.
Herodotus: 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.
Reading in Italian and essential commentary on Lysias 12 and Xenophon, Hellenica II 2.10-4.43.
Reading in Italian translation of Xenophon, Hellenica 2.2.10-2.4.43. (Recommended edition: Xenophon, Elleniche, edited by G. Daverio Rocchi, Milan: BUR, 2002, pp. 218-277)
Reading in Italian translation of Lysias, Contro Eratostene (Discorsi 12) (Recommended edition: Lysias, Orazioni (I-XV), edited by E. Medda, Milan: BUR, 1991, pp. 306-359).
Reading E. Medda, Foreword to the text, in Lysias, Orazioni (I-XV), edited by E. Medda, Milan: BUR, 1991, pp. 33-57.
4. Additional reading for point 1.
Non-classical literature students wishing to take 12 credits will be required to read a book of their choice from the following:
- 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.
5.
For point 3, non-attendees must add the reading of C. Bearzot, Come si abbatte una democrazia. Tecniche di colpo di stato nell’Atene antica, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2013, capp. 4-5 (pagg. 109-196).
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 four monographs in point 4, if necessary in addition to what they have already done in accordance with point 4.
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 text from oratory and classical historiography for the purposes of historical reconstruction; tools for reading and commenting on Lysias and Xenophon (Hellenica)..
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 literary sources are not passive reports of events, but expression of historical thought and forms of narrative construction. - 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 as defined in the syllabus, of course in accordance with the requirements of the syllabus for the various courses of study and the CFUs that individual students intend to achieve.
- 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.
3. Lysias and the Thirty Tyrants. Reading in Italian and essential commentary on Lysias 12 (Against Eratosthenes) and Xenophon, Hellenica 2.2.10-4.43. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile