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)

Taught classes, but, in order to consolidate the disciplinary contents acquired on a manual basis (knowledge), direct reading of some literary and epigraphic evidence is expected (skills).

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.

Knowledge of the basic coordinates of history (time and space) and the meaning of 'document'. Ability to use the historical atlas.

- 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;

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), ISBN 978-88-430-9140-9, pp. 11-190.

- G. Poma (a cura di), La storia antica. Metodi e fonti per lo studio, Bologna Il Mulino, 2016, ISBN 978-88-15-26536-4, 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, ISBN 978-88-15-28461-7, 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, ISBN 978-88-15-13340-3, pp. 7-207.

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

Please remember that in compliance with art. 171 L. 22.04.1941, 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.

At least one in-progress test will be taken either in the classroom or online, when at least 1/3 of the lessons have been completed and on a date agreed with the students.

This test will consist of multiple-choice test on contents of the syllabus already covered in class and will be worth 1 or 2 points up to a total of 30 points.

The time allowed for the test will be 30 minutes.

The topics of the in-progress test will not be the subject of the final examination.

The assessment of the in-progress test is averaged in the formulation of the final grade.

 

Final oral examination.

The assessment of the examination will take into account the candidate's mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as his or her ability to argue.

The examination of learning may also be conducted online, should the conditions so require.

Archaeological, literary, epigraphic, papyrological and numismatic sources.
Roman political thought from the incunabula to Justinian.
The history of Rome: monarchy, republic and empire.
The condition of women in the Roman world: legal status and patrimonial capacity, 'models' and reality, cult, work activities.

Ulpia Severina Augusta: the literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources.