ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY (MONOGRAPHIC)

Basic Course for first level students. It aims at:
- the knowledge of the main events of Greek history in the period between Alexander the Great and II century BC;
- awareness of cause and effect; knowledge of the main political, social and cultural topics;
- the ability to orientate in the ancient Mediterranean;
- knowledge of the methodology of historical research;
- the knowledge of the main authors of hellenistic Greek 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:
- Visualize the coordinates of spatial and temporal coordinates in which to frame historical phenomena and figures;
- has the key-words of the historical interpretation through the critical analysis of literary and documentary sources;
- is aware of the specificity of the documentation available for the reconstruction of Greek history;
- is able to communicate the contents in a concise 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 the study plan this exam with the code FT0254 must have attended the course of Greek History I (FT0253).

Students must have a good knowledge 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 manual notions, lesson contents, knowledge of ancient literary texts and documentaries 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.

Alexander the Great and the beginning of the Hellenistic age. Diadochi and Epigoni.
The birth of the Hellenistic kingdoms; the evolution of the individual kingdoms; federal states; the Greek West; the profiling of Rome.
Society, Economy and Culture in Hellenistic Age.
Topics and figures of Hellenistic historiography.

Monographic topic:
The sufferings of war: readings from Thucydides and Herodotus.

1) Texts and PPT on Moodle
2) M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano, Le Monnier (second edition) 2021, pages 213-318 or M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, new edition, Roma 2021, chapters 19, 24-30.
3) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (new edition), Carocci, Roma 2021, chapters 7-11
4) Thucydides, I Book (Italian translation) and U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS
1) M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano, Le Monnier (second edition) 2021, pages 213-318 or M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, new edition, Roma 2021, chapters 19, 24-30.
2) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (new edition), Carocci, Roma 2021, chapters 7-11.
3) Thucydides, I Book (Italian translation) and U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012.
4) M. Mari (a cura di), L'età ellenistica, Carocci, Roma 2019

Oral examination for FT0254.

Students who have the 12 CFU exam (FT0252) in their study plan take a single written exam for the entire course (program FT0253 + FT0254): the exam consists of a test of 10 open-ended questions . There are no intermediate tests.

Lessons. The teaching uses materials loaded on the Moodle University platform that are made available to the students before the lessons and which are discussed and commented in the Class.

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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