GREEK HISTORY

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. The subject will also include a thorough study of the Greek institutions.

We will examine the propaedeutic and methodologic instruments related to a good comprehension of Greek history.

A particular stress will be given to the origin and development of its historiography.

We will analyse the institutions of Greek cities: we will pay our attention on the democratic policy of Athen and Syracuse and we will also take into consideration those cities with an aristocratic and oligarchic governments, such as Sparta and Corinto.

During the course, we will give prominence to the social and economic aspects occurred during the classical age. The aim is to offer an overall view of Greek Poleis and to provide students with a clearer and more complete picture of the most important elements of this period.

1) D. Musti, Introduzione alla Storia greca, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2013, pp. 10-280.

2) K. Meister, La storiografia greca, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2000, pp.20-200.

3) D. Musti, Demokratía. Origine di un’idea, Bari-Roma, Laterza 1995, pp. 4-200.

4) G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche della Grecia in età classica, Bologna, Il Mulino 2003, pp. 13-186.

5) E. Galvagno, Demokratía a Siracusa?, in ASSXLVII, 2012 (2015), pp. 15-46.

6) E. Galvagno, Timoleonte e la costituzione siracusana, in M. Congiu, C. Micciché, S. Modeo (a cura di), Timoleonte e la Sicilia della seconda metà del IV sec. A.C., Caltanissetta-Roma, Sciascia 2011, pp. 217-236.

7) E.W. Robinson, Democracy beyond Athens: Popular Governement in the Greek Classical Age, Cambridge 2011, pp. 6-21; 66-92.

Cultural Heritage students will have to replace nn. 5 and 6 with the following titles:

- G. Bodei Giglioni, Lavori pubblici e occupazione nell’antichità classica, Bologna, Patron 1973, pp. 15-61.

- Ch. Höcker, L. Schneider, Pericle e la costruzione dell’Acropoli, in S. Settis (a cura di), I Greci, 2,2, Torino, Einaudi 1997, pp. 1239-1274.

Readings:

- Senofonte, Costituzione dei Lacedemoni

- [Aristotele], Costituzione degli Ateniesi I-XLI

- Plutarco, Vita di Licurgo, Milano, Mondadori (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla) 1990,

During the course, a collection of parallel passages will be prepared. The Professor will provide photocopies which will be part of the esam, even for those students who have not attendet thr course.

It is compulsory the use of an historical atlas.