According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) Knowledge and
understanding: students will be able to identify key moments in Roman history
and the main theories of modern scholars.
2) Ability to apply knowledge
and understanding: students will acquire notions of source analysis (literary,
legal, epigraphic, numismatic and archaeological).
3) Autonomy of judgement:
students will acquire tools and techniques for autonomous interpretation of
historical data.
4) Communication skills:
students will be able to explain orally the aims, procedures and methods of
Roman history.
5)
Learning skills: students will be able to identify unexpected results of
research and their possible developments in terms of methodology and impact.The course is divided into two
modules.
The first module (Module A, 4
CFU) covers the history of Rome from its origins to the fall of the Western
Roman Empire. Content:
The origins of Rome and the
monarchical period
The social, political and
religious organisation of Republican Rome
Expansionism in Italy and the
Mediterranean
The crisis of the Republic and
the emergence of personal power
The social, political and
religious organisation of the Principate
The ‘turning point’ of the 3rd
century
The Dominion
Christianity
The crisis of the Empire: from
476 AD to Justinian.
The
second module (Module B, 2 ECTS) is dedicated to the reading of sources:
Reading sources to write history: some examples.MODULE A:
History of Rome from the origins to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (4
CFU)
One
text of your choice from the following:
-
G. Cresci Marrone – F. Rohr Vio – L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Il Mulino,
Bologna 2014, pp. 11-379;
- AA.VV., Storia di
Roma dalle origini alla tarda antichità, a
cura di M. Mazza, Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2013, pp. 11-444;
- G. Geraci – A. Marcone, Storia romana. Editio maior, Mondadori Education, Milano 2017,
pp. 21-45 and 61-519;
- C. Giuffrida – M. Cassia – G. Arena, Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero,
Il Mulino, Bologna 2019, pp. 1-249, to which should be added
- G. Zecchini, Il
pensiero politico romano. Dall’età arcaica alla Tarda Antichità. Nuova edizione, Carocci Editore,
Roma 20182, pp. 11-190.
MODULE B:
Reading sources to write history: some examples (2 CFU)
Texts
to study:
- O.
Licandro, Cesare deve morire.
L’enigma delle Idi di marzo, Baldini + Castoldi, Milano 2022, pp.
27-75, 93-220, 231-275.
- C. Soraci, Iulia Florentina e il culto dei
martiri catanesi, in Paesaggi del sacro tra memoria, storia e
tradizione: attività di educazione permanente, a cura di B. Caruso e M.T.
Di Blasi, Assessorato dei beni culturali e dell’identità siciliana -
Dipartimento dei beni culturali e dell’identità siciliana, Palermo 2018, pp.
23-30. The text
is available in open access at https://www.academia.edu/38251119/Iulia_Florentina_e_il_culto_dei_martiri_catanesi_pdf
- E. Frasca – C. Soraci, Iulia Florentina e i martiri catanesi. Atti della Giornata
interdisciplinare di studi in memoria di Monsignor Gaetano Zito (Catania, 8
febbraio 2020), a cura di E. Frasca e C. Soraci, Acireale 2021, pp. 19-30, plus
one you choose from the following: T. Sardella (pp. 31-64), D. Palermo (pp. 65-74),
V. G. Rizzone (pp. 75-87), C. Soraci (pp. 65-105) E. Frasca (pp. 117-129), F.
Arcaria (pp. 131-170) e M. Ruggieri – C. Soraci (pp. 171-190). The text is available in open access
at https://www.disfor.unict.it/sites/default/files/files/Iulia%20Florentina%20e%20i%20martiri%20catanesi(1).pdf
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.