Mediterranean Archaeology

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

L-ANT/03

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

3

Hours distribution

21 classroom hours

Lecturers

DAVID NONNIS

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

L-ANT/02

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

3

Hours distribution

21 classroom hours

Lecturers

FRANCESCO GUIZZI

Students will deepen their knowledge of Ancient Greek and Roman history and culture through analysis of case-studies; they are also expected to increase their understanding of ancient evidence, especially literary texts and epigraphic documents. By studying and discussing the sources, they will be enabled to interpret and interrelate historical narratives. The course will tackle the historical issues by applying the knowledge and understanding of ancient sources and will lead the students to make their own judgements on this basis. They will also display their newly acquired skills in reading and interpreting ancient evidence during class lections and the final oral exam, at the meantime showing their learning skills in historical commentaries on many literary and epigraphic sources.

Consistent with the educational objectives of the course of study in which it is included, the course aims to provide, in the field of Ancient Greek and Roman History, knowledge and comprehension skills that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first cycle of studies, and to enable students to deal with original themes also in a research context, formulating judgements in a more complex and articulate form, communicating the knowledge and processes that led to their acquisition, and studying the topics independently.
Students will reach a level of in-depth critical reading of literary and epigraphic texts useful for historical investigation, technical and methodological skills to investigate phases and problems of Greek history, from political and administrative history to economic and social history, from the history of ancient historiography to modern historiography on the ancient world.

Basic knowledge of the Ancient Greek and Roman History.

Module: ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Ancient Greek and Roman History, part II – Roman History (for Greek History see Francesco Guizzi)
The Latin and Rome from the monarchic age to the II c. BCE.
The course aims to analyse, through the combined study of various typologies of documentary sources and a few case-studies, the evolution of the relationships between Rome and the Latin Communities, from the origins of Rome until the II c. BC. The path traced by this peculiar topic will be framed within the wider process of formation of Roman Italy. Topics are tentatively arranged according to the following syllabus:
- Ancient Latium, Latini Prisci and nomen Latinum: a definition (4 h.)
- Rome and Latin Communities from the origins of Rome to the foedus Cassianum (4 h.)
- Rome and Latium from the foedum Cassianum to the dissolution of Latin League (4 h.)
- The Latin colonies deducted by Rome, with sample case studies (5 h.)
- The role of the Latin communities (and other foederati) in the process of political and economic expansion of Rome in Italy and Mediterranean between 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE (4 h.)


Module: ROMAN HISTORY
The course will focus on the agriculture and animal husbandry in the greek world.

N.B.: for the part related to Roman History, see David Nonnis syllabus.

Module: ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Lectures’ notes and didactic materials distributed by the instructor and uploaded in his personal webpage

A - Selected Bibliography:
- - Ch.J. Smith, The Latins: historical perspective, in Entre archéologie et histoire:dialogue sur divers peoples de l’Italie préromaine.E pluribus unum? L’Italie, de la diversité préromaine à l’unité augustéenne, I, Peter Lang, Bern 2014, pp. 21-30;
- F. Fulminante, The Latins, in G.D. Farney – G. Bradley (eds.), The Peoples of Ancient Italy, Boston/Berlin 2018, pp. 473-497;
- 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;
- G. Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC. The Beginning of the City and the Rise of the Republic, Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgh 2020, pp. 263-333
- D.F. Maras, Latium and the Latini, in M. Maiuro (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000-49 BCE), Oxford 2024, pp. 291-317


Module: ROMAN HISTORY
A.Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States, Princeton (University Press) 2015, pp. 225-438 (ch. IX-XIV).

Greek literary texts (and english translation):
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman
Greek inscriptions:
- http://epigraphy.packhum.org/ (greek text)
- http://ig.bbaw.de/ (greek text / german and english transl.)

Module: ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Further bibliographical leads will be reported during classes.


Module: ROMAN HISTORY
N/D

Lectures by the teacher and presentations by students on some of the topics covered in the course.

Recommended

Oral exam.

Module: ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY
Sample questions (Roman History)
the idea of Latium vetus; the feriae Latinae; Ancus Martius and the Latins; the Tarquinian Latium; the foedus Cassianum; the aftermath of Latin war; the ius Latii; the latin colonies


Module: ROMAN HISTORY
Which are the sources for the study of Greek agriculture? Which are the main agricultural productions in the various areas of the Greek world? Which are the cultivation techniques? Which are the forms of animal husbandry in the Greek world?

Module: ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY

• - Ancient Latium, Latini Prisci and nomen Latinum: a definition (4 h.)
  • Books: - Ch.J. Smith, The Latins: historical perspective, in Entre archéologie et histoire:dialogue sur divers peoples de l’Italie préromaine.E pluribus unum? L’Italie, de la diversité préromaine à l’unité augustéenne, I, Peter Lang, Bern 2014, pp. 21-30;- F. Fulminante, The Latins, in G.D. Farney – G. Bradley (eds.), The Peoples of Ancient Italy, Boston/Berlin 2018, pp. 473-497;- D.F. Maras, Latium and the Latini, in M. Maiuro (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000-49 BCE), Oxford 2024, pp. 291-317


• - Rome  and Latin Communities from the origins of Rome to the foedus Cassianum (4 h.)
  • Books: - G. Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC. The Beginning of the City and the Rise of the Republic, Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgh 2020, pp. 263-333


• -  Rome and Latium from the foedum Cassianum to the dissolution of Latin League (4 h.)
  • Books: - G. Bradley, Early Rome to 290 BC. The Beginning of the City and the Rise of the Republic, Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgh 2020, pp. 263-333


• -  The Latin colonies deducted by Rome, with sample case studies (5 h.)
  • Books: -  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;


• - The role of the Latin communities (and other foederati) in the process of political and economic expansion of Rome in Italy and Mediterranean between 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE (4 h.)

• Forms of exchange, trade and forms of finance in the Greek world.
  • Books: A.Bresson,  The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States, Princeton (University Press) 2015