ROMAN HISTORY A - L

1.            Knowledge and understanding (DD1)

The course aims to provide the student with knowledges and useful tools for the understanding and interpretation of Roman history through the indispensable aid of multiple testimonies (literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, archaeological remains, iconographic finds, numismatic documents) from the area of the Mediterranean and distributed over a large period of time between the monarchical age and Late Antiquity. The direct use of ancient sources achieves multiple educational objectives, as it contributes to the development in the student of the abilities to know theories and models in a historical and geographical context to interpret educational and training events, to know the relationship systems between synchrony and diachrony, to grasp the links space-time and cause-effect, to establish interdisciplinary connections through the methodology of historical research, to evaluate long-lasting events and processes in an ancient and historical context.

2.            Applying knowledge and understanding (DD2)

Through the study of the discipline applied to different socio-economic, political and cultural contexts, the student will acquire the skills to connect the theoretical and methodological contents learned with the interpretation of past, present and future events and processes, and to use methodologies appropriate to the educational objectives.

3.            Making judgements (DD3)

The acquisition of the disciplinary contents will make the student develop the awareness and maturity necessary to express, with full autonomy of judgment, points of view and opinions through the ability to re-elaborate, deepen and critically rethink the contents learned, to grasp the link between objectives and results of research, to translate the analysis of learning contexts into the formulation of objectives and proposals for change and/or transformation, to sift and classify increasingly complex data and above all to know the main historiographical theories developed by ancient and modern thought.

4.            Communication skills (DD4)

The careful analysis of the disciplinary contents will offer the student the necessary tools to correctly communicate the meaning of his ideas and actions, to discuss on a dialogical level with different interlocutors (specialists or not), to motivate, in oral and written form, objectives, procedures and methodologies, to enhance the different points of view and above all to appropriately use the technical vocabulary of the discipline, adequately using the expressive means typical of sectoral languages.

5.            Learning skills (DD5)

- ancient sources;

- history of ancient historiography;

- the origins of Rome and the monarchical age: relationships with the Etruscan world and other peoples of the Italian peninsula;

- Republican Rome: social, political, cultural and religious organization;

- expansionism in the Mediterranean basin;

- Imperial Rome: social and political organization of the Principate;

- the third century: economic problems and social dynamics;

- Christianity and imperial power;

- the bureaucratization in Late Antiquity;

- the fall of the Western Roman Empire;

- the condition of women in ancient Rome;

- Ulpia Severina Augusta.

Module A: The documentary basis of Roman history (3 CFU)

- G. Zecchini, Il pensiero politico romano. Dall’età arcaica alla Tarda Antichità. Nuova edizione, Roma Carocci Editore, 2018 (2^a edizione), pp. 11-190.

- G. Poma (a cura di), La storia antica. Metodi e fonti per lo studio, Bologna Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 7-130; 157-195; 209-224; 245-307.

Module B: Knowledge of Roman history from its origins to the Late Empire (3 CFU)

- C. Giuffrida-M. Cassia-G. Arena, Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero, Bologna Il Mulino, 2019, pp. 1-249.

Module C: The condition of women in ancient Rome (3 CFU)

- F. Cenerini, La donna romana. Modelli e realtà, nuova edizione, Bologna Il Mulino, 2009, pp. 7-207.

- M. Cassia, Ulpia Severina Augusta. Domina e dea, Roma Edizioni Quasar 2022, pp. 11-131.

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