1) Knowledge and understanding: students will be able
to identify the main moments in the history of Rome and the most important
theories of modern scholars.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
students will acquire notions of analysis of sources (literary, legal,
epigraphic and archaeological)
3) Autonomy of judgment: students will acquire tools
and techniques to interpret historical data also independently.
4) Communication skills: students will show objectives,
procedures, methodologies of Roman history in oral form.
5) Learning skills: students will be able to identify
unexpected results of research and its possible developments on a
methodological and impact level.
The course includes two modules. The first one (Module
A, 4 credits) provides a general History of Rome from its
origins to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Content:
Origins of Rome and the monarchic age
Social, political and economic structure of the
Republic
Rome’s
expansion
into Italy
and the Mediterranean
The crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise
of personal power
Social, political and economic
structure of the Principate
The crisis of the
Third Century
The Dominate
The rise of Christianity
The fall of the Western Roman
empire.
The
second module (Module B, 2 Credits) tackles the special topic of Citizens in the Roman world.
MODULE A: History of
Rome from origins to the fall of the Roman West Empire (4 Credits)
Students have to
study one of the following texts:
G. Cresci Marrone - F. Rohr Vio - L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014, pp. 11-379;
M. Pani - E. Todisco, Storia romana. Dalle origini alla Tarda Antichità, Carocci editore, Roma 2014 (seconda edizione), pp.
15-412;
G. Geraci - A. Marcone, Storia romana. Editio maior, Mondadori Education, Milano 2017, pp. XV-XVIII; 1-533;
C. Giuffrida - M. Cassia - G. Arena, Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019, pp. 1-249, to which G.
Zecchini, Il pensiero politico romano. Dall’età arcaica alla Tarda
Antichità. Nuova edizione, Carocci
Editore, Roma 20182, pp. 11-190 must be added;
G. Cecconi, La città e l’impero. Una
storia del mondo romano dalle origini a Teodosio il Grande. Nuova edizione,
Carocci Editore, Roma 2021, pp. 1-536.
MODULE B: Citizens in the Roman world (2 Credits)
F. Lamberti, Percorsi della cittadinanza romana dalle origini alla
Tarda Repubblica, in Derecho,
persona y ciudadanía. Una experiencia jurídica comparada, Marcial
Pons, Madrid-Barcelona-Buenos Aires 2010, pp. 18-53;
C. Soraci, Verso la concessione della cittadinanza romana ai Siciliani: il ruolo
di Gaio Giulio Cesare e della gens Pompeia,
«RRP», 2, 2023, 103-136;
C. Soraci, Natura e benefici del ius
Italicum, in E. Garcia Fernandez, E. Melchor Gil, Simone Sisani (a cura di), Le strutture locali dell’Occidente romano. Atti del I
seminario Italo-Spagnolo Diuturna Civitas
(L’Aqula, 4-6 maggio 2022), Edizioni Quasar, Roma 2023, 315-346.
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.