ROMAN HISTORY A - L

- reconstructing the long history of the city of Rome which, from the wars to maintain its independence, was able to affirm its hegemony in Latium and the Mediterranean basin, leaving an indelible mark even in European history;

- presenting aims and specific tools of the methodology of historical research: interpreting the past through the various ancient sources and accurately placing the contents acquired on a diachronic line and in a geographical context;

- defining and examining some particular “problems” of the discipline in light of the modern historiographic debate.

Taught classes, but, in order to consolidate the disciplinary contents acquired on a manual basis (knowledge), direct reading of some literary and epigraphic evidence is expected (skills).

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.

- the origins of Rome and the monarchical age: relationships with the Etruscan world and other peoples of the Italian peninsula;

- Republican Rome: social, political, cultural and religious organization;

- expansionism in the Mediterranean basin;

- Imperial Rome: social and political organization of the Principate;

- the third century: economic problems and social dynamics;

- Christianity and imperial power;

- the bureaucratization in Late Antiquity;

- the fall of the Western Roman Empire;

- the condition of women in ancient Rome.

Module A: The documentary basis of Roman history (3 CFU)

- G. Zecchini, Il pensiero politico romano. Dall’età arcaica alla Tarda Antichità. Nuova edizione, Roma Carocci Editore, 2018 (2^a edizione), pp. 11-190.

- G. Poma (a cura di), La storia antica. Metodi e fonti per lo studio, Bologna Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 7-130; 157-195; 209-224; 245-307.

Module B: Knowledge of Roman history from its origins to the Late Empire (3 CFU)

- C. Giuffrida-M. Cassia-G. Arena, Roma e la sua storia. Dalla città all’Impero, Bologna Il Mulino, 2019, pp. 1-249.

Module C: The condition of women in ancient Rome (3 CFU)

- F. Cenerini, La donna romana. Modelli e realtà, nuova edizione, Bologna Il Mulino, 2009, pp. 7-207.

- D. Gourevitch – M.-Th. Raepsaet-Charlier, La donna nella Roma antica, Firenze-Milano Giunti Editore, 2003, pp. 17-123.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.