01009 - Roman History (A-G)

Learning outcomes

the student will learn, beyond a purely mnemonic knowledge and repetitive, the problems and methods of constructing an historiographical narration of the Roman world, the elements of the Roman  political  and institutional lexicon and the criteria for decoding the Roman historical texts

Course contents

1) The Roman history and its sources. Methodologies of a critical approach.

2) The Roman center and the provinces. From the late republic to the fourth century A.D.

3) the crisis of the empire and its reorganization (III-IV century AD)

Readings/Bibliography

For a general understanding of the subject  the preparation of one of the following manuals is required: :
G: Geraci-A. Marcone, Storia di Roma, Firenze, Le Monnier 2011
L. Bessone-R. Scuderi-A. Baldini, Manuale di storia romana, Bologna Monduzzi 2011
G.A. Cecconi, La città e l'impero: storia del mondo romano dalle origini a Teodosio il Grande, Roma Carocci 2009

For the history of republican Rome you will have to add C. Nicolet, Il mestiere di cittadino, Roma Editori Riuniti 1999.
For the history of the Roman Empire, Jacques F.-J. Scheidt, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione Laterza, Bari 2008.

For those who are unable to attend the lectures,  a textbook, in addition to those specified will be agreed with the teacher.

 

Teaching methods

creation, after the lecture, of a stable space of interaction between teacher and students about the topics covered with the aim to define their own curiosities and get advice on their development that can be defined with relatively autonomous timing and rhythm

 

Assessment methods

oral examination

Teaching tools

the search on the web and on the bibliographic and texts databases

Office hours

See the website of Valerio Lieto Salvatore Neri