GREEK HISTORY

1)   Knowledge and understanding: the student will have to understand and interpret the fundamental dynamics of Greek history through the study of the main sources (literary texts, papyri, inscriptions, archaeological remains, iconographic finds, numismatic documents) coming from the eastern and western Mediterranean and distributed in a large time span including from the Minoan age and the Roman conquest of Greece.

2)     Applying knowledge and understanding: the student must be able 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: the student will acquire the ability to formulate opinions on the contents learned; he will be able to deepen the topics of study .

4)     Communication skills: The analysis of the foundations of the discipline will allow students to confront each other on a dialogical level with different interlocutors (specialists or not); to motivate, in oral and written form, objectives, procedures and methodologies, acquiring awareness of the expressive means of the sectoral languages.

5) Learning skills: the student will perfect his skills in the study of complex topics; he will improve his learning skills and use of innovative methodologies to deal with new problems

General introduction to Greek historiography. 

The archaeological discovery of pre-Greek civilizations and studies on the deciphering of graphic systems; the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization and the "Greek Middle Ages"; the Homeric society and the birth of the polis; Greek migrations and "colonizations"; religious practices, aristocracies and panhellenic sanctuaries; constitutional systems and legislative reforms; the relations between the Mediterranean West and near-eastern civilizations; culture and society in archaic and classical times; geography, ethnography and the development of historiography; Asia Minor and Persia; the rise of tyrannies in Greece and the West; the formation of leagues, federal states and disputes for territorial hegemony; Greco-Persian alliances and conflicts; Sparta and the Peloponnese; Athens and Attica; central and northern Greece; the kingdom of Macedonia and the foundation of the "universal empire"; diadochi and epigones; outlines of economic and social history of the late classical and Hellenistic periods. Science and technology in the Hellenistic age.

 The course also includes an in-depth study of the relationship between the Hellenic world and other cultures throughout the time span of Greek history.

Module 1 (3 cfu): Introduction to the Greek historiography:

Introductory text: C. Bearzot, Storiografia greca. Un’introduzione, Bologna (Il Mulino) 2022 (pp. 226).

Module 2 (3 cfu): Outlines of Greek history.

Basic manual: M. Corsaro, L. Gallo, Storia Greca, Firenze (Le Monnier), 2010 (pp. 308).

Alternatively

C. Bearzot, Manuale di storia greca, Bologna (Il Mulino), 2015 (pp. 368).

Module 3 (3 cfu): The Greeks and ‘the Barbarians’

Introductory text: A. Momigliano, Saggezza straniera. L’Ellenismo e le altre culture, Torino (Einaudi), 2019² (pp. 167).

Reading passages of the Histories of Herodotus: I, 96-130; III, 89-116 (edition of your choice).

Final oral exam. The questions formulated during the exam will be based on the introductory text (Module 1), on the basic manual (Module 2) and on the in-depth texts and essays (Module 3).

A written test is expected in progress.

For the evaluation of the exam, the mastery of the contents and the skills acquired, the linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate will be taken into account.

- The formation of the polis.

- The hoplite reform.

- Solon's reforms in Athens

-The Persian Empire and the Greco-Persian Wars

- The work of Cimon.

- The reforms of Pericles.