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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.

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Filosofia - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
A
M-FIL/03
Foreign language CB Test (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian)
6
E
-

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following




1 module to be chosen between the following

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3 modules to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-FIL/01
1 module to be chosen between the following
12
B
M-FIL/03
Final exam
6
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following




1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
3 modules to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-FIL/01
1 module to be chosen between the following
12
B
M-FIL/03
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
2 modules to be chosen among the following
12
A
L-ANT/02
12
A
L-FIL-LET/02
12
A
L-FIL-LET/04
12
A
M-STO/01
12
A
L-ANT/03
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Between the years: 2°- 3°
3 modules to be chosen among the following

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Teaching code

4S007531

Teacher

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ANT/03 - ROMAN HISTORY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 23, 2019 al Oct 31, 2019.

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at improving the students’ knowledge of the fundamental principles which the Roman society was based on, the dialectics between Romans and non-Romans (in particular the inhabitants of provinces), and the grant of the Roman citizenship to the inhabitants of the whole 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 epigraphic) 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 compare to one 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 foreigners into their own society and politic life, and the importance of the Constitutio Antoniniana which modified deeply the relationship between Italy and the provinces. Another aim is that of let students 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.
The understanding skill should be improved, as well 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

Historical aspects of the 3rd century CE.
1) classes devoted to selected topics;
2) knowledge of passages from classical authors and monuments which will be read and commented during the course;
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

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.
Erasmus students who have some difficulties in understanding Italian can ask the professor for one or more abstracts in English of the lessons’ content.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Momigliano, Arnaldo Manuale di storia romana UTET 2016
Tito Livio Storia di Roma dalla sua fondazione Rizzoli 1982 ristampato più volte. Anche altre edizioni sono disponibili, per esempio, quella della Garzanti.
Mazza, Mario, a cura di Storia di Roma dalle origini alla tarda antichità Edizioni del Prisma 2013
Plutarco Vite parallele opera completa Mondadori 1965

Examination Methods

oral exam. Questions will be posed in order to ascertain what learning and knowing level is reached. In case, questions could go further in deep by focussing on texts and/or monuments discussed during the course.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE