ROMAN HISTORY

reconstructing the long history of ancient 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;

the institutions and political thought;

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.

Traditional, helped by new technologies for the reading of ancient documents.

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.

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

- O. Licandro, La Constitutio Antoniniana del 212 d.C. e il paradigma urbano. Una “diversa” lettura di P. Giessen 40.I, in SAIA 98, 2020, pp. 1-28.

- O. Licandro, N. Palazzolo, Roma e le sue istituzioni dalle origini a Giustiniano, Torino Giappichelli, 2019, pp. 1-113; 123-171; 207-268; 322-412.

alternatively:

- L. Capogrossi Colognesi, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, terza edizione, Bologna Il Mulino 2021, pp. 27-354.

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