Archaeology

DAVID NONNIS

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills
in the field of ADVANCED ROMAN HISTORY I, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the
students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying
the subject in an independent and self-educational way. Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts in ancient history, and
further acquisition of technical and methodological competence for the study of Roman history and historiography as well as of modern historiography on the
ancient world.

Basic knowledge of the main events of the History of Rome from the foundation of the city to the end of the Western Empire.
Command of classical languages: useful;
Acquaintance with physical and historical geography of the Mediterranean world: reccomended;
The course of Roman History I (or other similar basic course of the discipline) is a prerequisite for the class of Advanced Roman History I.

Roman Colonization in Ancient Italy during the Republic
The course aims to analyse, through the combined study of various typologies of documentary sources, the evolution of the Roman Colonization in Italy from the monarchy down to the Late Republic. Classes also focuse, with some case-studies, on relationships between Rome and colonies, on local istitutions, origins of colonists, town-planning, society and cults of the news towns. The path traced by this peculiar topic will be framed within the wider process of formation of Roman Italy.

Lectures’ notes and didactic materials distributed by the instructor and uploaded in his personal webpage

A - Selected Bibliography:
E.T. Salmon, La fondazione delle colonie latine, in Misurare la terra: centuriazioni e coloni del mondo romano. Città, agricoltura, commercio. Materiali da Roma e dal suburbio, Modena 1985, pp. 13-19;
- F. Coarelli, Colonizzazione romana e viabilità, in Dialoghi di Archeologia, terza ser., VI,2, 1988, pp. 35-48;
- M. Torelli, Religious Aspects of Early Roman Colonization, in Idem, Tota Italia. Essays in the Cultural Formation of Roman Italy, Oxford 1999,pp. 15-42;
- U. Laffi, La colonizzazione romana nell’età della repubblica, in Idem, Colonie e municipi nello stato romano, Roma 2007, pp. 15-35;
- T.D. Stek, The impact of Roman expansion and colonization on ancient Italy in the Republican period. From diffusionism to networks of opportunity, in G.D. Farney - G. Bradley (eds.), The Peoples of Ancient Italy, De Gruyter, Boston - Berlin 2018, pp. 269-294 optional);
-- N. Terrenato, La grande trattativa, L'espansione di Roma in Italia tra storia e archeologia, Carocci Editore, Roma 2022, pp. 101-243

See also:
F. Coarelli, La storia e lo scavo in F. Coarelli, P.G. Monti, Fregellae 1., Le fonti, la storia, il territorio, Roma 1998, pp.29-69
U. Laffi, Le espulsioni da Roma di immigrati provenienti da comunità latine e italiche in età repubblicana, in Athenaeum, 105,1, 2017, pp. 85-105

The main teaching method will be classroom-based instruction with the aid of materials distributed or uploaded to the teacher's website in digital format. As part of the course, students will also be actively involved in the analysis of documentary sources or individual case studies.
Lessons may be supplemented by educational visits to museums and archaeological sites.

Attendance of lectures and off campus activities in not mandatory, but recommended.

The students are required to pass a single oral exam (on syllabus topics, using also didatctic materials and suggested readings), during the regular exam sessions, at the end of the course.
The oral exam, with open-ended questions, is aimed at verifying the knowledge of course topics and the students’ ability to read critically the documentary sources dealt with over the course. Students are expected to be articulate and to be able to communicate their thoughts and contents with an appropriate language and sufficient autonomy of judgment.
To pass the exam the student must get a grade of not below than 18/30. Students must demonstrate to have acquired a sufficient command of course topics; they are also expected to know how to cope critically with the main documentary sources. In order to hit a score of 30/30 cum laude, students must demonstrate excellent knowledge of all course topics, and to be able to connect them in a logical and consistent way.

Students who will not be able to attend the course will undergo the same exam (oral exam); supplementary / substitute readings will be provided (see Texts adopted and reference bibliography).

1) Wthat are the so called Priscae Latinae coloniae?
2) Which are the cults of the latin coloniy of Alba Fucens?
3) Wthat is the foedus Cassianum?
4) Which are the sullan colonies of Etruria?

• “the Roman colonie" during the Monarchy (2 hours)


• Rome and the Latin League: the priscae latinae coloniae, with case studies (e.g., Norba) (6 hours)


• Colonies after 338 B.C., with case studies (12 hours)


• -- the institutions and religious life of the coloniae latinae and the coloniae civium romanorum, with case studies (8 hours)


• The Latin Rughts (4 hours)


• - The outcomes of the Social War: the municipalization of the Latin colonies; the “fictitious” Latin colonies of Cisalpina (2 hours)


• - Veteran colonies in Italy in the 1st century B.C.: the case of the Sullan colonies of Praeneste, Pompeii, and Arretium (8 hours)