- Docente: Lucia Criscuolo
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-ANT/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
History (cod. 0962)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0957)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Anthropology, Religions, Oriental Civilizations (cod. 8493)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students know the general development of Greek history, have a knowledge of the different sources used for the historical reconstruction and get the main informations on events, historical phenomena and modern historiography on the topics dealt at classes. Students become familiar with the Greek chronology and read ancient authors in translation, either Italian or in other modern language. They become also used to the technical terminology of the discipline.
Course contents
1. Introduction to Greek History: history, sources, methods, tools (readings of ancient texts on historical method and on archaic and classic period).
2. A ghost of Hellenistic history: dynastic law and the transmission of power.
Students who will not attend the lessons have to know the texts commented in the part on "Historical research" (Hecataeus, Herodotus, Thucidides, Polybius) and read and comment 2 among the following texts:
Ps.Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution
or
Arrianus, Indiké
or a life of Plutarchus among:
Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alcibiades, Lisander, Dio, Alexander, Demetrius, Agis & Cleomenes, Aratus.
Office hours
See the website of Lucia Criscuolo