ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
- Academic year
- 2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA GRECA
- Course code
- FT0252 (AF:472738 AR:258734)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 12
- Subdivision
- Surnames A-L
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-ANT/02
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
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 Alexander the Great;
- 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.
Expected learning outcomes
- 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.
Pre-requirements
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.
Contents
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 period: 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 Classic and Hellenistic Historiography.
Monographic topic:
War and History: readings from Thucydides.
Referral texts
2) M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano Le Monnier (new edition) 2021 or M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, new edition, Roma 2021.
3) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (new edition), Carocci, Roma 2021.
4) Aristoteles, la Costituzione degli Ateniesi (Italian Translation in any edition), I part.
5) Thucydides, Le Storie (i Book, Italian translation), and U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012.
FOR STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT ATTEND THE LESSONS:
1) M. Corsaro - L. Gallo, Storia greca, Milano, Le Monnier (new edition) 2021 or M. Bettalli – A.L. D’Agata – A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Carocci, new edition, Roma 2021.
2) Introduzione alla storiografia greca, a cura di M. Bettalli (new edition), Carocci, Roma 2021.
3) Aristoteles, La Costituzione degli Ateniesi (Italian Translation in any edition), I part.
4) Tucidide, Le Storie (i Book, Italian translation), and U. Fantasia, La guerra del Peloponneso, Carocci, Roma 2012.
5) O. Coloru, Il regno del più forte, Napoli, Salerno 2022.
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Further information
The course is dedicated to students (with surnames starting from A to L) who have in their syllabus the course of Greek History FT0252 (12 CFU) for all Bachelor's Degree Programmes.
Type of exam
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