According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) Knowledge and understanding:
students will be able to identify key moments in Roman history and the main
theories of modern scholars.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and
understanding: students will acquire notions of source analysis (literary,
legal, epigraphic, numismatic and archaeological).
3) Autonomy of judgement: students
will acquire tools and techniques for autonomous interpretation of historical
data.
4) Communication skills: students
will be able to explain orally the aims, procedures and methods of Roman
history.
5) Learning skills: students will be able to identify
unexpected results of research and their possible developments in terms of
methodology and impact.The course is divided into two modules.
The first module (Module A, 4 CFU) covers the history
of Rome from its origins to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Content:
The origins of Rome and the monarchical period
The social, political and religious organisation of
Republican Rome
Expansionism in Italy and the Mediterranean
The crisis of the Republic and the emergence of
personal power
The social, political and religious organisation of
the Principate
The ‘turning point’ of the 3rd century
The Dominion
Christianity
The crisis of the Empire: from 476 AD to Justinian.
The
second module (Module B, 2 ECTS) is dedicated to the reading of sources:
Reading sources to write history: some examples.MODULE
A: History of Rome from the origins to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (4
CFU)
One text of your choice from the
following:
- G. Cresci Marrone – F. Rohr Vio – L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Il Mulino,
Bologna 2014, pp. 11-379;
- AA.VV., Storia di Roma
dalle origini alla tarda antichità, a cura
di M. Mazza, Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2013, pp. 11-444;
- G. Geraci – A. Marcone, Storia romana. Editio maior, Mondadori Education,
Milano 2017, pp. 21-45 and 61-519;
- C. Giuffrida – M. Cassia – G. Arena, Roma e la sua
storia. Dalla città all’Impero, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019, pp.
1-249, to which should be added
- G. Zecchini, Il pensiero politico
romano. Dall’età arcaica alla Tarda Antichità. Nuova edizione, Carocci Editore, Roma
20182, pp. 11-190.
MODULE
B: Reading sources to write history: some examples (2 CFU)
Texts to study:
-
O. Licandro, Cesare deve morire. L’enigma delle Idi di marzo, Baldini + Castoldi, Milano 2022, pp. 27-75,
93-220, 231-275.
- C. Soraci, Iulia Florentina e il culto dei martiri catanesi,
in Paesaggi
del sacro tra memoria, storia e tradizione: attività di educazione permanente,
a cura di B. Caruso e M.T. Di Blasi, Assessorato dei beni culturali e
dell’identità siciliana - Dipartimento dei beni culturali e dell’identità
siciliana, Palermo 2018, pp. 23-30. The text is available in open
access at https://www.academia.edu/38251119/Iulia_Florentina_e_il_culto_dei_martiri_catanesi_pdf
- E. Frasca – C. Soraci, Iulia
Florentina e i martiri catanesi. Atti della Giornata
interdisciplinare di studi in memoria di Monsignor Gaetano Zito (Catania, 8 febbraio
2020), a cura di E. Frasca e C. Soraci, Acireale 2021, pp. 19-30, plus one you
choose from the following: T. Sardella (pp. 31-64), D. Palermo (pp. 65-74), V.
G. Rizzone (pp. 75-87), C. Soraci (pp. 65-105) E. Frasca (pp. 117-129), F.
Arcaria (pp. 131-170) e M. Ruggieri – C. Soraci (pp. 171-190). The text is
available in open access at https://www.disfor.unict.it/sites/default/files/files/Iulia%20Florentina%20e%20i%20martiri%20catanesi(1).pdf
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.