HISTORY OF THE CITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
ORAZIO ANTONIO LICANDRO
Expected Learning Outcomes
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 origins of polis in ancient Greece and Rome.
Knowledge of Greek and Roman political institutions in the dynamics of the political and constitutional life, 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 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.Course Structure
Traditional, helped by new technologies for the reading of ancient documents.
Detailed Course Content
Political and constitutional history of ancient Greece.
Political and constitutional history of Rome in the succession of its different phases (monarchy, republic, empire), with the particular attention to the institutional transition.Textbook Information
M. Centanni, La nascita della politica: la Costituzione di Atene, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venezia 2011, pp. 11-213.
L. Capogrossi Colognesi, Come si diventa romani. L’espansione del potere romano in Italia, strumenti istituzionali e logiche politiche, Jovene Editore, Napoli 2022, pp. 1-400.
O. Licandro, Cives et peregrini. Città, cittadinanza, integrazione, mobilità sociale e certezza del diritto dall’età repubblicana alla Tarda Antichità. Studi epigrafici e papirologici II, Jovene Editore, Napoli 2022, 1-250.
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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
