Teacher
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MOSCONI Gianfranco
(syllabus)
How is the mass able to rule? The ideological debate in fifth-century Greek world (with references to the archaic age and some considerations about the contemporary democracies)
The course aims to review and analyze the heated debate that arises in the Greek world around the problem of participation in government by demos or individuals outside the elites. This debate becomes particularly heated in the 5th c. BC, and particularly in the Athenian context, but its first manifestations can be traced back to the Homeric Iliad and then to various testimonies of the archaic age and to episodes and moments of the same period. Therefore, although the center of the discussion will be the sources of the fifth century, the gaze will be extended to those previous testimonies that seem to reflect, although in different contexts, similar concerns. Space will also be devoted to the relevance of the problems posed in the Greek debate between opponents and supporters of the democratic regime for the contemporary political experience and reflection. Some lessons will be seminars: in these specific topics or ancient texts will be illustrated by the students after adequate preparation, under the guidance of the teacher. The preparation of an essay and its presentation in a seminar will be appreciated for a positive evaluation. The translation of texts from Greek language will not be required, but students have to be able to know the specific terms used in the original texts and to grasp their actual value.
(reference books)
Testi d’esame: 1) Antologia dei passi da altre fonti via via illustrati nel corso delle lezioni + dispense del docente (saranno raccolti alla fine del semestre e resi disponibili in PDF) 2) D. Musti, Demokratìa. Origini di un’idea, Laterza 1995, capp. I-II-III, pp. 3-137. 3) G. Mosconi, Musica & buon governo: paideía aristocratica e propaganda politica nell’Atene di V sec. a.C., in «Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medievale» 50, 1, 2008, pp. 11-70 (disponibile sulla pagina del docente in Academia). 4) G. Mosconi, Democrazia e buon governo. Cinque tesi democratiche nella Grecia del V secolo a.C., LED, Milano 2021 (tranne il cap. 5).
N.B. I testi al punto 1 e 3 saranno resi disponibili in PDF, caricati sulla pagina dell’insegnamento.
Per i non frequentanti, in aggiunta ai testi indicati per i frequentanti, i seguenti testi: 1)P. Cartledge, La politica, in I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, sotto la direzione di S. Settis, Einaudi, vol. I, pp. 39-72; 2) H.-J. Gehrke, La stasis, in S. Settis (dir.), I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, vol. II/2, Torino 1997, pp. 453-480; 3) M. Giangiulio, Democrazie greche. Atene, Sicilia, Magna Grecia, Carocci, Roma 2015, capp. 1-4 = pp. 1-96.
E’ comunque caldamente consigliata la frequenza di almeno alcune lezioni, per avere nozione del carattere complessivo del corso.
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