HISTORY OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

 

Specific Objectives:

Knowledge of Roman and Greek political institutions in the dynamics of the political and constitutionsal life of ancient Greece and Rome (from the origins until the Justinian period).

Knowlegde of institutional mechanisms and balance of power systems in the various phases in which the history of Greece and Rome articulates. Knowledge of the birth of the central and peripheral administrative structuring.

Awareness of the metodology and critical use of documentary basics of ancient history regardless of the nature of the documents themselves (literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological, numismatics, etc.) for the reconstruction of the institutional systems over the centuries.

Knowledge of great themes, like “sovereignity”, “government”, “democracy”, “citizenship”, “guarantees”, and of the transition phases.

The political and the constitutional history of Greece.

The Archaic Greece.

Nomos basileus.

Polis and nomoi.

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Monarchies.

Rome in the succession of its different phases (monarchy, republic, empire), with the particular attention to the institutional transition.

The monarchy. Etruscan reforms. Transition to the res publica.

Magistracy, people and senate assemblies.

Central and peripheral administrative organization. The government of the conquered territories in the Mediterranean: the provinces.

Augustus and the genesis of the empire.

The nova official and the birth of the imperial burocracy.

The Severan Dynasty and the universalis empire.

The new attitude of the empire from Diocletian to Costantine.

The crisis of Roman empire.

The germanic sovereigns. The Theoderic protectorate.

Justinian dominance and the attempt to refound the empire.

 

During the course documents of different nature will be showed and discussed from which critical examination will produce elements of general reconstruction of context, general representation and political institutional functions in the relationship between power and citizens (or foreigners or slaves) and also with the other organs of the State.

G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche della Grecia in età classica, Il Mulino – Bologna 2003, pp. 1-232.

 

O. Licandro – N. Palazzolo, Roma e le sue istituzioni politiche dalle origini a Giustiniano, Giappichelli Editore – Torino, 2019, pp. 1-507.

 

 

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