ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY

This lecture course is part of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Literature (corso di Laurea in Lettere), curriculum 'Scienze dell'antichità'.
It allows students to acquire the basic historical notions concerning:
- knowledge of the main lines of ancient Greek history from the birth of the polis to the battle of Actium (VIIIth cent. BC-31 BC);
- knowledge of chronological and geographical contexts;
- the awareness of the links between cause and effect and of the most significant topics of the ancient Greek history with a closer focus on the social and cultural development of the Greeks;
- knowledge of the methodology of historical research, with particular emphasis on the analysis and interpretation of written sources and other historical evidences;
- the main lines of the Greek classical and hellenistic historiography.

At the end of the course the student:
- has a good knowledge of the main events, themes and figures of Greek history, also in the light of wider historical contexts:
- possesses the precise spatial and temporal coordinates in which to frame historical phenomena and figures;
- knows how to apply the fundamental categories of interpretation of Greek history through the critical analysis of literary and documentary sources read in translation (but with constant reference to the original text);
- is aware of the specificity (and therefore of the limits and possible ambiguities) of the documentation available for the reconstruction of Greek history; therefore knows how to accept and understand the existence, and the validity, of different reconstructive hypotheses regarding some important thematic issues;
- is able to communicate the contents learned in a concise oral and written form using the technical terminology of the discipline;
- is able to apply the methodological tools learned to specific case studies selected for their exemplarity.

Students must have a good command of the Italian language, both in terms of oral comprehension and written production.
It is also expected that they will be able to deal with complex information autonomously, by making critical interaction of manuals, lesson contents, knowledge of ancient literary and documentary texts, and individual readings of modern essays.
Students must also know how to orientate themselves in the geography of the Mediterranean, benefiting, if necessary, from a historical atlas.

Outlines of Greek history from the birth of the polis to 31 BC
General tools, basic methodology for the critical analysis of different types of historical sources.
The archaic period: the birth of the polis; alphabetic writing; colonization; Archaic legislators; Archaic Sparta; Athens and Solon; tyrannies; Cleisthenes reform.
The classical period: Persian wars; the Pentekontaetia; Athenian empire and democracy; the Peloponnesian War; the fourth century and the age of hegemonies; the Macedonians and Philip.
The Hellenistic age: figure and exploits of Alexander the Great; the birth of the Hellenistic kingdoms; the evolution of individual kingdoms; the Greek West; the Hellenistic Confederations; the advent of Rome. Topics and figures of classical and hellenistic historiography.
During 2019-20, the Peloponnesian War and Thucydides will be studied in depth.

Lecture notes with texts dossier examined during the cours (available on-line on the Moodle platform).
M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano Le Monnier 2010.
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Bologna Monduzzi Editore 2007.
Tucidide, Le Storie (Italian traslation): i, ii.34-46, iii.82-84, v.84-113, vi.1-6 and all the passages cited in U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Roma Carocci, 2012 will be subject to exam verification.

FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT ATTEND THE LESSONS:
M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano Le Monnier 2010.
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Bologna Monduzzi Editore 2007.
Tucidide, Le Storie (Italian traslation): i, ii.34-46, iii.82-84, v.84-113, vi.1-6 and all the passages cited in U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Roma Carocci, 2012 will be subject to exam verification.
U. Fantasia, Tucidide e le cause della guerra: un punto di vista, in M. Bettini (ed.), Del tradurre,Roma-Padova 2011, 27-70.
L. Canfora, Prima lezione di storia greca, Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza, 2000.

Students will take the exam in a single oral proof.
The two initial questions relate to chronology and geography. The remaining are about a specific institutional aspect, a commentary on a smart text of a major Greek historian, the verification of the knowledge of the archaic, classical, Hellenistic Greek history, as well as of the specific deepening.

Lectures. The teaching uses materials loaded on the Moodle University platform that are made available to students before the lectures and which are discussed and commented in the classroom.

Italian

The course is dedicated only to students who have in their syllabus the examination of Greek History 12 CFU (FT0252) for the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Literature (corso di laurea in Lettere), curriculum 'Scienze dell'antichità'.
All the others must consult the program of Prof. De Vido.

One points out the importance of Greek epigraphy for all students who are interested in the degree of Classical Studies.

Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments

Ca’ Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support
services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with
mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development