GREEK HISTORY

L-ANT/02 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

EMILIO GALVAGNO


Learning Objectives

During the lessons of Greek History the students will improve their knowledge of the main events of Greece itself and all the adjacent areas dominated by the Greeks from the origins to the Roman intervention



Detailed Course Content

The whole course is divided into two sections, which, in turn, are split into modulus with relative credits:

 

Group A: 5 credits: (I semester)

 

Modulus a) Methodology, propaedeutic instruments and knowledge of historical events (5 credits)

 

Gruppo B: 4 credits (I semester):

 

Modulus a) Athens and the West (1 credits)

b) Greek colonization in Sicily (2 credit)

c) Indigenous and Greeks in the ancient

Sicily: Doucetius (1 credit



Textbook Information

G. DAVERIO ROCCHI, Il mondo dei Greci, Mondadori, Milano 2008, pp. 3-21; 97-224

M, CORSARO-L. GALLO Storia greca, Le Monnier, Milano 2010

D. AMBAGLIO, Storia della storiografia greca, Monduzzi Bologna 2007

F.CORDANO, Antiche fondazioni greche, Sellerio, Palermo 986, pp. 15-48; 86-94; 108-137

E.GALVAGNO, Politica ed economia della Sicilia greca, Carocci, Urbino 2000, pp. 65- 108;

J.-P. WILSON, “Ideologies” of Greek Colonisation, in G. Bradley, J.-P. Wilson (eds), Greek and

Roman Colonisation. Origins, Ideologies Interaction, Swansea 2006, pp. 25-57

E.GALVAGNO, Ellanico, Atene e la genesi dell’archaiologia siceliota di Tucidide,

atti del Convegno “Dal mito alla storia. La Sicilia nell’archaiologhia di Tucidide”

Caltanissetta 21-22 maggio 2011, Roma-Caltanissetta 2012, pp. 45-67

E.GALVAGNO, Greci e Sicani nel territorio agrigentino: la tradizione storiografica, Atti Conv. intern.

Indigeni e Greci tra le valli dell’Himera e dell’Halykos, caltanissetta 16-17 giugno

2012, pp. 1-22

 

Supplemented book for those students who are unable to attend the course:

D. MUSTI, Demokratía. Origini di un’idea, Laterza, Bari-Roma 1995

 

During the course should be presented photocopies of ancient texts.




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