Philology, literatures and history of the ancient world

Syllabus The course aims to clarify how the Roman system actually worked in practice and how Rome’s legal mechanism, formal rules, and institutional structures emerged out of a specific social context. The course is divided into three sections: Monarchy; Republic; Principate. The course is completed by a module dedicated to the knowledge of the main research tools in Roman Law and to the analysis of the legal lexicon, investigated through the examination of a case study. PART 1: THE MONARCHY 1. Origin and Development of the Civic System. 2. The Latin Monarchy and the Construction of the Political Unity. 3. The Etruscan Monarchy and the Refoundation of the City. 4. The City Identity: Citizens and Foreigners. 5. From Monarchy to Republic. PART 2. THE REPUBLIC 6. The Building-up of the Republican System and the Agreement between Patricians and Plebeians. 7. Institutional and Social Changes in the 4th and 3rd Century B.C.. 8. The Roman Hegemony in Italy and the Municipal System. 9. The Final Features of the Republican Legal System. 10. The Evolution of Roman Law and the Development of the Juridical Science. 11. The 3rd Century B.C. and the Rise of the Mediterranean Empire. 12. The Age of Civil Wars. Part 3. THE PRINCIPATE 13. Augustus: shaping a new institutional system 14. The architecture of governance 15. The emperor and the law PART 4. RESEARCH TOOLS IN ROMAN LAW 1.Fonts, lexicon, bibliography, digital archives. 2. A case study. The ager publicus and the controversiae agrorum

Students Course Book: L. CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014, as regards what has been indicated during the Course. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Classificazioni gromatiche del territorio e categorie giuridiche. Un primo bilancio in: Uomini, Istituzioni, Mercati. Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio (2019), pp. 399-410. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Nuovi dati sul concetto di sanctum. Gli scritti dei Gromatici Veteres In: KOINONIA. - ISSN 0393-2230. - 44(2020), pp. 1519-1536. Further and more specific bibliographic references will be shown during the course. Non-attending Students: Course Book: L. CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014, as regards what has been indicated during the Course. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Classificazioni gromatiche del territorio e categorie giuridiche. Un primo bilancio in: Uomini, Istituzioni, Mercati. Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio (2019), pp. 399-410. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Nuovi dati sul concetto di sanctum. Gli scritti dei Gromatici Veteres In: KOINONIA. - ISSN 0393-2230. - 44(2020), pp. 1519-1536. L. MAGANZANI, Fonti e strumenti di ricerca. Metodo di consultazione per lo studio del diritto romano ad uso degli studenti, Como, Edizioni New Press, 1992 pp. 15-33; 73-83; 101-105; 109-114; 129-132.

To pass the exam you must get a grade not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics indicated in the different parts of the program. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student must demonstrate that he has acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them in a logical and consistent way.

Syllabus The course aims to clarify how the Roman system actually worked in practice and how Rome’s legal mechanism, formal rules, and institutional structures emerged out of a specific social context. The course is divided into three sections: Monarchy; Republic; Principate. The course is completed by a module dedicated to the knowledge of the main research tools in Roman Law and to the analysis of the legal lexicon, investigated through the examination of a case study. PART 1: THE MONARCHY 1. Origin and Development of the Civic System. 2. The Latin Monarchy and the Construction of the Political Unity. 3. The Etruscan Monarchy and the Refoundation of the City. 4. The City Identity: Citizens and Foreigners. 5. From Monarchy to Republic. PART 2. THE REPUBLIC 6. The Building-up of the Republican System and the Agreement between Patricians and Plebeians. 7. Institutional and Social Changes in the 4th and 3rd Century B.C.. 8. The Roman Hegemony in Italy and the Municipal System. 9. The Final Features of the Republican Legal System. 10. The Evolution of Roman Law and the Development of the Juridical Science. 11. The 3rd Century B.C. and the Rise of the Mediterranean Empire. 12. The Age of Civil Wars. Part 3. THE PRINCIPATE 13. Augustus: shaping a new institutional system 14. The architecture of governance 15. The emperor and the law PART 4. RESEARCH TOOLS IN ROMAN LAW 1.Fonts, lexicon, bibliography, digital archives. 2. A case study. The ager publicus and the controversiae agrorum

Students Course Book: L. CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014, as regards what has been indicated during the Course. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Classificazioni gromatiche del territorio e categorie giuridiche. Un primo bilancio in: Uomini, Istituzioni, Mercati. Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio (2019), pp. 399-410. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Nuovi dati sul concetto di sanctum. Gli scritti dei Gromatici Veteres In: KOINONIA. - ISSN 0393-2230. - 44(2020), pp. 1519-1536. Further and more specific bibliographic references will be shown during the course. Non-attending Students: Course Book: L. CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI, Storia di Roma tra diritto e potere, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014, as regards what has been indicated during the Course. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Classificazioni gromatiche del territorio e categorie giuridiche. Un primo bilancio in: Uomini, Istituzioni, Mercati. Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio (2019), pp. 399-410. ELENA TASSI SCANDONE, Nuovi dati sul concetto di sanctum. Gli scritti dei Gromatici Veteres In: KOINONIA. - ISSN 0393-2230. - 44(2020), pp. 1519-1536. L. MAGANZANI, Fonti e strumenti di ricerca. Metodo di consultazione per lo studio del diritto romano ad uso degli studenti, Como, Edizioni New Press, 1992 pp. 15-33; 73-83; 101-105; 109-114; 129-132.

To pass the exam you must get a grade not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics indicated in the different parts of the program. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student must demonstrate that he has acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them in a logical and consistent way.