Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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Sem. IA (31.10.16 sosp.lezioni) | Oct 3, 2016 | Nov 12, 2016 |
Sem. IB | Nov 14, 2016 | Jan 21, 2017 |
Sem. IIA | Feb 27, 2017 | Apr 22, 2017 |
Sem. IIB | Apr 24, 2017 | Jun 10, 2017 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione Estiva | Jun 12, 2017 | Jul 29, 2017 |
Sessione Autunnale | Aug 21, 2017 | Sep 23, 2017 |
Sessione Straordinaria | Jan 22, 2018 | Feb 24, 2018 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione Estiva | Jul 10, 2017 | Jul 15, 2017 |
Sessione Autunnale | Dec 18, 2017 | Dec 21, 2017 |
Sessione Invernale | Mar 23, 2018 | Mar 29, 2018 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2016 | Nov 1, 2016 |
Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2016 | Dec 8, 2016 |
Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2016 | Jan 6, 2017 |
Vacanze Pasquali | Apr 14, 2017 | Apr 18, 2017 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2017 | Apr 25, 2017 |
Festa dei Lavoratori | May 1, 2017 | May 1, 2017 |
Festa del Santo Patrono - San Zeno | May 21, 2017 | May 21, 2017 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2017 | Jun 2, 2017 |
Vacanze Estive | Aug 14, 2017 | Aug 19, 2017 |
Exam calendar
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Academic staff

Avezzu' Guido
Carnero Roberto

Chiecchi Giuseppe

Mastrocinque Attilio
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Roman History (i p) (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S02144
Credits
12
Coordinator
Attilio Mastrocinque
Language
Italian
Also offered in courses:
- Roman History (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
- Roman History (p) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
- Roman History (i p) - I MODULO PARTE (I) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
- Roman History (i p) - II MODULO PARTE (P) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
- Roman History (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage
The teaching is organized as follows:
I MODULO PARTE (I)
Credits
6
Period
Sem. IA
Academic staff
Attilio Mastrocinque
II MODULO PARTE (P)
Credits
6
Period
Sem. IB
Academic staff
Attilio Mastrocinque
Learning outcomes
First part (basic course):
The course is aimed at improving the students’ knowledge of the urban culture of the Romans during the Imperial Age, the fundamental principles which the Roman society was based on, the dialectics between Romans and non-Romans, and the grant of Roman citizenship to the inhabitants of the Empire. The analysis will focus on the documents concerning the different rights of cities in Italy and in the provinces.
The critical analysis of the documentary sources (either archaeological or literary or epigraphical) will be introduced to students. This analysis is meant to allow students to distinguish and understand the peculiar features of the different kinds of documentation and subsequently, to put them in comparison one to another; it is also meant to single out and describe the principles which the Roman social life was based on, the Roman capability of integrating the foreigners into their society and politics, and the importance of Roman political engagements (such as in the case of the Constitutio Antoniniana) which modified deeply the basis of the social life. Onother aim is that of making understand the reasons why the bases of the social life in the Roman world had been discarded in the 3rd century.
Students will be able to evaluate autonomously some testimonies to Roman history by means of comparisons between different authors or between authors and different kinds of documentation, in order to evaluate the reliability of each document.
Students are expected to improve their communication skill by expressing their opinions or even their doubts concerning the dealt topics and by receiving answers and directions about how to organize their speech.
Also the understanding skill should be improved by means of a critical reading of historical texts and the study of images of monuments and other iconographies.
At the end of the teaching activities a student should be able to show that he has understood the most important problems discussed in the classes, that he is able to analyse in a critical manner both the sources and the iconographies taken into account. A student should explain this following a logical series of points, clearly and on the basis of the fundamental documents.
Second part (advanced course)
The course is aimed at improving the students’ knowledge of the relationship between religion and politics during the Imperial Age, and of the fundamental principles which the Roman society and the Roman religion were based on. Texts and documents concerning persecutions, spread, and triumph of Christianity will be taken into account. The critical analysis of the documentary sources (either archaeological or literary or epigraphical) will be introduced to students. This analysis is meant to allow students to distinguish and understand the peculiar features of the different kinds of documentation and subsequently, to put them in comparison one to another; it is also meant to single out and describe the principles which the Roman social life was based on, the Roman capability of integrating the foreigners into their society and politics, and the Roman attitude of repressing or, at the contrary, promoting cultural features of foreign peoples during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries.
Students will be able to evaluate autonomously some testimonies to Roman history by means of comparisons between different authors or between authors and different kinds of documentation, in order to evaluate the reliability of each document.
Students are expected to improve their communication skill by expressing their opinions or even their doubts concerning the dealt topics and by receiving answers and directions about how to organize their speech.
Also the understanding skill should be improved by means of a critical reading of historical texts and the study of images of monuments and other iconographies.
At the end of the teaching activities a student should be able to show that he has understood the most important problems discussed in the classes, that he is able to analyse in a critical manner both the sources and the iconographies taken into account. A student should explain this following a logical series of points, clearly and on the basis of the fundamental documents.
Program
First part:
Historical aspects of the 3rd century CE.
1) First: classes devoted to selected topics;
2) Second: the students should read and stuty the work of Herodianus, History of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, books, IV-VIII (ed. by Filippo Cassola, Sansoni, Firenze 1967, or Loeb edition). Knowledge of the original, Greek text is not mandatory.
3) Third: knowledge of passages from classical authors and monuments which will be read and commented during the course;
4) Fourth: knowledge of Roman history by studying a handbook . Suggested texts: A. Momigliano, Manuale di storia romana, ed. by A. Mastrocinque, Turin, UTET, 2016 (except the last chapter concerning the Middle Ages); or Storia di Roma dalle origini alla tarda antichità, Catania, Edizioni del Prisma, 2013 (except from chapter V to the end of the section IX).
5) The use of a historical atlas is recommended.
Further readings (their reading is not mandatory):
Clare Rowan, Under divine auspices: divine ideology and the visualisation of imperial power in the Severan period, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012
Mario Mazza, Le maschere del potere : cultura e politica nella tarda antichità, Napoli: Jovene, 1986
Didactic method.
The course is divided into two parts:
- the first consists in the classes, devoted to the above mentioned topics. Students will be provided with images and texts thanks to powerpoint files with images of archaeological documents and historical texts, which will be at their disposal also online.
- the second part consists in the personal study of the above mentioned works.
At the end of each lesson a short debate is possible in order to clarify what could have been eventually difficult to understand.
Students who are unable to attend every class may use the E-Learning site of the University of Verona, where they may find the recorded lessons, the images and texts which are necessary for studying.
Second part:
The Christianization of the Roman Empire
1) First: classes devoted to selected topics;
2) Second: Eusebius of Caesarea, The Life of Constantine, Milano, Rizzoli, BUR, 2009 (an English translation is available online); 2) Libanius, In defence of temples; suggested edition: Libanio, In difesa dei templi, ed. by R.Romano, Naples, D'Auria, 2007). Knowledge of the original, Greek text is not mandatory.
3) Third: knowledge of passages from classical authors and monuments which will be read and commented during the course;
4) The use of a historical atlas is recommended.
Further readings (their reading is not mandatory):
Marta Sordi, Il Cristianesimo e Roma, Bologna, L. Cappelli, 1965
Gli imperatori Severi : storia archeologia religione, ed. by Enrico Dal Covolo and Giancarlo Rinaldi, Rome, LAS 1999
Umberto Roberto, Diocleziano, Rome, Salerno ed., 2014
Didactic method.
The course is divided into two parts:
- the first consists in the classes, devoted to the above mentioned topics. Students will be provided with images and texts thanks to powerpoint files with images of archaeological documents and historical texts, which will be at their disposal also online.
- the second part consists in the personal study of the above mentioned works.
At the end of each lesson a short debate is possible in order to clarify what could have been eventually difficult to understand.
Students who are unable to attend every class may use the E-Learning site of the University of Verona, where they may find the recorded lessons, the images and texts which are necessary for studying.
Bibliography
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Mazza, Mario | Le maschere del potere : cultura e politica nella tarda antichità | Jovene | 1986 | lettura facoltativa | |
Momigliano, Arnaldo | Manuale di storia romana | UTET | 2016 | Il manuale va studiato per intero, eccetto l’ultimo capitolo che riguarda l’alto Medioevo | |
Erodiano | Storia dell’impero romano dopo Marco Aurelio, libri IV-VIII | Sansoni | 1967 | studio dei libri IV-VIII | |
Mazza, Mario, a cura di | Storia di Roma dalle origini alla tarda antichità | Edizioni del Prisma | 2013 | Questo manuale va studiato in alternativa con quello del Momigliano. Il manuale va studiato per intero, ma si può omettere la parte che va dal capitolo V della sezione IX in poi. | |
Rowan, Clare | Under divine auspices: divine ideology and the visualisation of imperial power in the Severan period | Cambridge University Press | 2012 | lettura facoltativa | |
Roberto, Umberto | Diocleziano | Salerno editrice | 2014 | La lettura è facoltativa | |
Enrico Dal Covolo e Giancarlo Rinaldi (a cura di) | Gli imperatori Severi : storia archeologia religione | LAS | 1999 | La lettura è facoltativa | |
Sordi, Marta | Il Cristianesimo e Roma | Cappelli | 1965 | La lettura è facoltativa | |
Libanio | In difesa dei templi | D'Auria | 2007 | Lo studio di quest'opera è obbligatorio. Anche altre edizioni possono essere utilizzate | |
Eusebio di Cesarea | Vita di Costantino | Rizzoli | 2009 | Lo studio di questo libro è obbligatorio. Anche altre edizioni possono essere utilizzate |
Examination Methods
oral exam. Questions will be posed in order to ascertain what learning and knowing level is reached. Eventually, the questions could go further in deep by focussing on texts and/or monuments discussed during the course.
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Modalità e sedi di frequenza
La frequenza non è obbligatoria.
Maggiori dettagli in merito all'obbligo di frequenza vengono riportati nel Regolamento del corso di studio disponibile alla voce Regolamenti nel menu Il Corso. Anche se il regolamento non prevede un obbligo specifico, verifica le indicazioni previste dal singolo docente per ciascun insegnamento o per eventuali laboratori e/o tirocinio.
È consentita l'iscrizione a tempo parziale. Per saperne di più consulta la pagina Possibilità di iscrizione Part time.
Le sedi di svolgimento delle lezioni e degli esami sono le seguenti
- Polo Zanotto (vicino si trova il Palazzo di Lettere)
- Palazzo ex Economia
- Polo Santa Marta
- Istituto ex Orsoline
- Palazzo Zorzi (Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 17 - 37129 Verona)
- Chiostro Santa Maria delle Vittorie, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 41
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