LEARNING OUTCOMES

The objectives of the course in the context of the three-year degree in Arts are for students to acquire the following knowledge, competencies and abilities: - basic knowledge of the historical development of the Roman world, the main events and foundations of its civilisation in the context of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world; methodological competencies and techniques necessary to tackle the documentary basis of Roman history with particular reference to literary and epigraphic texts without neglecting archeological accounts and the contribution of documentary sciences; knowing how to navigate bibliographical research and know how it is updated by using research tools; recognising the essential characteristics - political, economic, social and religious - of the Roman world and the main evolutionary outlines of political institutions both diachronically and synchronically by analysing surviving documentation. 

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Intended learning outcomes of this course in the context of the three year degree (laurea triennale) in history are for students to acquire the following knowledge, competencies, abilities and skills:

    1. basic knowledge of the historical of the development of the Roman world, principal events and foundation of its civilization in the context of the ancient history of the Mediterranean, as well as the relationship to modern  geography;  

    2. methodological and technical competencies to confront  the basic documentation of Roman history, with particular attention to literary, epigraphical and archaeological sources;

     3. orientation in bibliographical research and how to supplement and support with additional sources;

     4. familiarity with the essential characteristics (political, economic, social, religious) of the Roman world and the principal lines of the evolution diachronically as well as synchronically of the political institutions utilizing surviving documentation;

For students taking the course for 9 and 12 cfu

    5. learning some of the peculiar features of the society of the Roman world and of particular aspects of its daily life, on the basis of its sources.

PREREQUISITES

Being fond of history.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will take place with lectures, for a total of 72 hours (for the students attending the course for 12 cfu), 60 hours (9 cfu), 40 hours (6 cfu). For every class is foreseen the support of Power Point slides and richly detailed documentation made available with photocopies especially regarding literary sources (transalated into Italian). 

Students are requested to register to the related course available in the ‘Aula web’.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Contents for students taking the course for 12 cfu 

Introductory framework: background sources. Historical framework: events, society and civilization from the origines to the Justinian era. Institutional and geographical framework: organisation of the Roman state and its functioning. Introduction to Roman antiquities: aspects of Roman daily life in Roma and in the Roman world.

Contents for students taking the course for 9 cfu

Introductory framework: background sources. Historical framework: events, society and civilization from the origines to the Justinian era. Institutional and geographical framework: organisation of the Roman state and its functioning. Introduction to Roman antiquities: some aspects of Roman daily life in Roma and in the Roman world.

Contents for students taking the course for 6 cfu

Introductory framework: background sources. Historical framework: events, society and civilization from the origines to the Justinian era. Institutional and geographical framework: organisation of the Roman state and its functioning.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for students taking the course for 12 cfu

Contents for students attending the course:

- Classes notes (including introduction to Roman antiquities: Aspetti di vita quotidiana a Roma e nel mondo romano)

- G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.

Contents for non attending students the course:

• G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.
• G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche del mondo romano, Il Mulino, Bologna (ed. 2009).
• J. Carcopino, La vita quotidiana a Roma all'apogeo dell'Impero, Laterza, Paris 1939, trad. it. Bari 1941 (1993 and following editions).

Bibliography for students taking the course for 9 cfu

Contents for students attending the course:

• Classes notes (including some introductives modules to Roman antiquities: Aspetti di vita quotidiana a Roma e nel mondo romano)
• G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.

Contents for non attending students the course:

• G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.
• G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche del mondo romano, Il Mulino, Bologna (ed. 2009).
• J. Carcopino, La vita quotidiana a Roma all'apogeo dell'Impero, Laterza, Paris 1939, trad. it. Bari 1941 (Economica Laterza 1993 and following editions): choosing between one of the two parts: Prefazione e Parte prima, L'ambiente della vita romana, pp. 3-158; Prefazione e Parte seconda: L'impiego del tempo, pp. 3-5, 167-301.

Bibliography for students taking the course for 6 cfu

Contents for attending students the course:

• Classes notes
• G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.

Contents for non attending students the course:

• G. Cresci Marrone, F. Rohr Vio, L. Calvelli, Roma antica. Storia e documenti, Manuale di storia romana, Il Mulino, Bologna 2014.
• G. Poma, Le istituzioni politiche del mondo romano, Il Mulino, Bologna (ed. 2009).