B004477 - ROMAN HISTORY

Italian

I part-CAPITAL ISSUES OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN HISTORY
The course takes into consideration the essential characteristics of the Roman Republic until the beginnings of the Principate. An emphasis will be put on chronological phases of Roman History; Republican Society and Political Institutions; the Birth of the Mediterranean Empire; Citizenship and Romanization.
II part- (for students of Classics)- THE DECADE 60-50 B.C. THROUGH THE CORRESPONDENCE OF M. TULLIUS CICERO WITH HIS BROTHER QUINTUS

I PART
Two readings are necessary:
1) An handbook (one, chosen among the following):
- G.A. Cecconi, La città e l'impero, Carocci, Roma 2009 (fino alla 10a rist., 2018)
- G. Geraci-A. Marcone, Storia romana. Editio maior, Mondadori, Milano 2017 (non altre edizioni)
- S. Giorcelli, A. Pellizzari, S. Roda, Storia romana. Roma dallo stato-città all'impero senza fine, Edises, Napoli 2015
- M. Pani-E. Todisco, Storia romana dalle origini alla tarda antichità, Carocci, Roma 2014

2) An integrative essay (only one, chosen among the following):

Social history:
- G. Alfoeldy, Storia sociale dell'antica Roma, Il Mulino, Bologna ed. 2012 (non altre);

On Republican Rome, generally speaking:
W. Bloesel, Roma: l'età repubblicana. Forum ed espansione del dominio, Einaudi, Torino 2016;

Juridical perspective
-L. Capogrossi Colognesi, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014

Institutions of Roman Italy
D.A. Faoro (a cura di), L'amministrazione dell'Italia Romana, dal I sec. a.C. al III sec. d.C., Le Monnier, Milano 2018

The Birth and Duration of Roman Power
W. Harris ,Il potere di Roma, Carocci, Roma 2019

Historiography:
M. Manca-F. Rohr Vio, Introduzione alla storiografia romana, Carocci, Roma 2019 (nuova ed.)

Roman Religion:
J. Ruepke, Pantheon. Una nuova storia della religione romana, Einaudi, Torino 2018

Moreover, it is useful accompanying the work consulting an historical atlas: a traditional one, or, for example Chr. Badel-H. Inglebert, L'Impero romano in 200 mappe, LEG edizioni, Gorizia 2015.

II PART
It is obligatory the reading of:
- W. Stroh, Cicerone, trad.it., Il Mulino, Bologna 2010;
- Introduzione generale al volume a cura di C. di Spigno, Cicerone. Epistole al fratello Quinto ed altri epistolari minori, UTET, Torino 2002;
- Introduzione generale di E. Narducci al libro a cura di A. Cavarzere, Cicerone. Lettere ai Familiari,vol. I, BUR, Milano 2007.

To get a deeper and fresh look to Cicero as a writer and as a politician and philosopher, very important but difficult to get in the boookmaket is E. Narducci, Cicerone. La parola e la politica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009. Moreover e.g. P. Grimal, Cicerone, Garzanti, Milano 1987; M. Fuhrmann, Cicero and the Roman Republic, trad. ingl. Oxford 1990 (o edizioni successive); C. Steel (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Cicero, Cambridge 2013.

Further indications of optional bibliography will be provided ion time on the basis of the topics explained and studied.

PART I
The lessons are intended to provide students with the ability to orient themselves critically and to acquire a historiographical, though essential, basis on institutions and societies of Roman history, with particular regard to the Republican era (V-I centuries B.C.), i.e. that long historical period during which Rome was transformed from a municipal res publica of regional prominence into an imperial and ecumenical res publica. But the teacher will also make comparisons and digressions on social processes and institutions of different historical phases. In fact, the Principate and the advanced imperial age will also be taken into consideration from this point of view, in order to facilitate the student in the completion of his preparation (which as an overall program, although more focused on republican Rome, will cover the entire Roman history, from the archaic era to the late empire) and in the reading of reference texts. The teacher will also try to adapt and come as close as possible, with references and links of content and method, to the educational objectives of the different curricula of study (ancient and modern) to which the students belong.
PART II
The lessons will advance the student (Ancient Letters) on the level of knowledge related to the late Republican period and, with particular reference to the monographic theme identified (the decade of the definitive emergence of the figures of Caesar and Pompey and the role of Cicero through the epistolary of the latter directed to his brother Quintus), will allow him to refine the method of study and critical approach to historiography on the first century B.C. as well as to an author and witness of capital importance as the "Arpinate".

In the case of the students of Classics, knowledge of Latin and Greek is assumed.
In the case of students of Modern Literature (or possibly other addresses) enrolled in the 1st module of the course as institutional students, knowledge of the classical languages is of course not compulsory.

PART I
Classes in presence and/or remotely, according to the university directives launched in relation to Covid 19. For the reading of the sources (in translation), the illustration of various maps and images and for any teaching purpose the professor will use photocopies and/or PowerPoint presentations, or other useful procedures.
PART II. Lessons in presence and/or remotely, but certainly with space reserved for discussion and seminar-type approaches on problems and sources (in the original language, esp. latin): the aim is to involve the student of ancient literature curricula as much as possible in the topics dealt with in the classroom. Teacher and students will evaluate if a part of the available hours is to be devoted to written reports, valable for the determination of the score of the profit exam (with a consequential lowering of the readings envisaged for the exams themselves).

The need in principle for a regular frequency is recalled. Evidently, for the first semester 2020-2021 specific protocols will be drawn up on which will depend on every modality related to the first-person participation of students, in physical classrooms and at a distance.

The final examination consists of an oral test, held in the presence or if necessary remotely. It will be a conversation between the commission and the candidate aimed at ascertaining whether and how the student has acquired the ability to understand and use the knowledge and whether he or she demonstrates communication and expression skills in the presentation of problems, methods, events, institutional structures of Roman History. This, with particular regard to the topics explained during the course and those studied by virtue of the reference readings provided, first of all the handbook and also the supplementary texts provided. During the verification, attention will be paid by the commission to the student's ability to contextualize on a spatio-temporal level and to critically analyze general aspects of Roman history, or more specific aspects but of particular representativeness and significance.

PART I
The program will include a series of synthesis lessons dedicated to provide the student with a general overview of the entire Roman History, its methods and periods (concept of periodization, and its criteria, from monarchic Rome to the late empire), its main problems. This will be followed by an in-depth work dedicated to the Republican age: the construction of Roman hegemony over Italy, the republican political institutions, the Mediterranean provinces and their exploitation, politics in the age of the crisis of the Republic, the problem of the extension of Roman citizenship and more generally Romanization.
PART II
After an introductory part on the post-Sillan and Cicero age, the focus will be placed on the relations between Marcus Tullius Cicero and his brother
Quintus in the contemporary political framework (decade 60-50 B.C.); this, in the light of the missives related to the political-administrative activities carried out by the latter from 60 B.C. onwards. Among the points of reflection that will emerge from these readings: Roman rulers and provincial governors in Asia; taxation and its agents (and relations between provincials and publicans); the image of the governor; Quintus Cicero in politics; the two brothers and Caesar; internal dynamics in Rome and family environments. Further and more analytical indications will be given at the beginning of the course.