Classics

LUCIA MORI

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of History of the Ancient Near Eaest, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with the methodological and conceptual bases of the History of the Ancient Near East and dealing with its general development, from the formative periods to the Achaemenid Persian conquest, in order to offer a clear chronological and geographical frame related to the main documentary sources.

At the end of the course students will have to handle sources, tools and methodologies on the history of law in the Ancient Near East.

Interest in the discipline and ability to study bibliography also in English

Law in the ancient Near East.
The course will present the main documentary sources for the reconstruction of law in the ancient Near East. The multiple textual evidence relating to the codes of laws, and to the numerous legal documents of both public and private spheres from the third millennium BC will be presented and deepened from the historical, social and political point of view. up to the Neo-Babylonian period (6th century BC)

C. Mora, M. Liverani, I diritti nel mondo cuneiforme: (Mesopotamia e regioni adiacenti ca. 2500-500 a.C.), 2008.
More bibliography will be provided during the lessons.

The course will take place through frontal lessons, in presence, with the organization of in-depth seminars in which the active collaboration of the students will be required.

Attendance at the lessons is strongly recommended. The subject is often new to students and the course is also structured to help students navigate totally new topics.