HISTORY OF THE CITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - 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.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites required.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
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
- 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.
- G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche della Grecia in età classica,
Il Mulino, Bologna 2009, pp. 1-280.
- L. Braccesi, M. Nocita, I Fondatori
delle Colonie tra Sicilia e Magna Graecia, L’Erma di Bretschneider,
Roma 2016, pp. 1-150.
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.
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