13350 - Ancient Greek Institutions

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Federicomaria Muccioli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ANT/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History, Preservation and Enhancement of Artistic and Archaeological Heritage and Landscape (cod. 8836)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will have a deep knowledge of some main public and private institutions of Greece, putting them in their right context through a critical vision of all the available sources (literary, documentary and iconographical ones). They will recognize the evolution and the functioning of the institutions under examination (with special reference to their social, political and historical context). They will use a technical vocabulary concerning these topics.

Course contents

Main political and religious institutions of archaic and classical Greece. The course will focus on Athens, as represented in the plutarchean Lives.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes and material (PDF and JPG) available in the website, and, in addiction:

1) G. Camassa, Forme della vita politica dei Greci in età arcaica e classica, Bologna, Monduzzi 2007.

2) M.H. Hansen, La democrazia ateniese nel IV secolo a.C., Milano, Led 2003.

3) F. Muccioli, La storia attraverso gli esempi. Protagonisti e interpretazioni del mondo greco in Plutarco, Milano-Udine, Mimesis 2012, cap. II-III.



1) G. Camassa, Forme della vita politica dei Greci in età arcaica e classica, Bologna, Monduzzi 2007.

2) M.H. Hansen, La democrazia ateniese nel IV secolo a.C., Milano, Led 2003.

3) F. Muccioli, La storia attraverso gli esempi. Protagonisti e interpretazioni del mondo greco in Plutarco, Milano-Udine, Mime 2012, cap. II-III.



Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, with the use of PDF and JPG of images and maps.

Assessment methods

Oral exam.

Teaching tools

During the class use of PDF of sources and JPG of images and maps (available in the website).

Office hours

See the website of Federicomaria Muccioli