Teaching code

4S007531

Teacher

Attilio Mastrocinque

Credits

6

Also offered in courses

• Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
• Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-ANT/03 - ROMAN HISTORY

Language

Italian

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 27, 2021 al Nov 6, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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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, 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. 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 different cases.
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

Aspects of Roman archaic history
Texts to be read: 1) Livy, books I and II; Plutarch, Lives of Romulus, Numa, and Publicola;
2) the passages that will be studied during the course
3) knowledge of Roman history by studying a handbook. Suggested texts: A. Momigliano, Manuale di storia romana, ed. by A. Mastrocinque, Turin, UTET/De Agostini, 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).

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 their study.

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