ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY (MONOGRAPHIC)

This lecture course is part of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in History.
It allows students to acquire the basic historical notions concerning:
- knowledge of the main lines of ancient Greek history from Alexandrer the Great 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 who have in their Syllabus the course Storia greca (code FT0254) must have followed before the course Storia Greca I (FT0253 or FT0252-1).

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 Alexander the Great to 31 BC.
General tools, basic methodology for the critical analysis of different types of historical sources.
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.
The profound connection between war and writing of history in Thucydides will be studied in depth.

1) Lecture notes with the texts examined during the cours (available on-line on the Moodle platform).
2) M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, nuova ed., Roma 2013, chapters 19, 24-30.
or
M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano, Le Monnier 2010, 205-308.
3) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (nuova edizione), Carocci, Roma 2009, chapters 7-11
or
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Monduzzi Editore, Bologna 2007, 53-110.
4) 'The greatest war': Thucydides, War and the Writing of History.Thucydides, Historiae, Books I, and all the passages examined during the lessons (in Italian translation).
U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012

FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT ATTEND THE LESSONS:
1) M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, nuova ed., Roma 2013, chapters 19, 24-30.
or
M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano, Le Monnier 2010, 205-308.
2) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (nuova edizione), Carocci, Roma 2009, chapters 7-11
or
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Monduzzi Editore, Bologna 2007, 53-110.
3) Thucydides will be studied in depth: all the first book and all the passages commented in the book of U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012.
4) M. Mari (a cura di), L'età ellenistica, Carocci, Roma 2019, and
Tucidide, Epitafio di Pericle per i caduti del primo anno di guerra, a cura di O. Longo, Marsilio, Venezia 2000
or
Tucidide, Il dialogo dei Melii e degli Ateniesi, a cura di L. Canfora, Marsilio, Venezia1991.

Students will take the exam in a oral proof.

Students who have in their Syllabus the course Storia greca at 12 CFU will take the exam in a single written proof (all the programme of the two parts).
There are not intermediary proofs.

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.

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

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