The course aims to provide students with the tools for a scholarly approach to the study of Roman history, from its origins to the "noiseless fall" of the Western part. During the course, topics in chronology, historical geography, historiography and epigraphy will be addressed, alternating between lectures of a more exquisitely evenemensional nature and others centered on broad methodological issues. Foundational cores: Archaic Latium and the birth of Rome; myths of origins; the age of kings; the birth of the Republic and the Roman "constitution"; the last century of the Republic and the civil wars; the Augustan principate; the first two centuries of imperial history; the crisis of the 3rd century; the great reformers: Aurelian, Diocletian, Constantine; the 4th century and Christian Rome; Romans and barbarians; the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

PROGRAMME FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS:

1) Giovanni Geraci e Arnaldo Marconi, Storia romana (con la collaborazione di A. Cristofori e C. Salvaterra), Mondadori, Milano 2016 (quarta edizione);
2) G. Traina, Fonti per la storia antica, il Mulino, Bologna 2023, pp. 59-84, 109-159; 263-419.
3) G. De Sanctis, Roma prima di Roma, Salerno, Roma 2021;
4) Materiale didattico illustrato a lezione.

STUDENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO FOLLOW THE COURSE AND THOSE WHO ARE ENROLLED IN THE ROMAN HISTORY EXAM AS A SINGLE COURSE IN PLACE OF THE TEACHING MATERIAL REFERRED TO IN POINT 4) WILL CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES:

• P. Brown, Il mondo tardoantico. Da Marco Aurelio a Maometto, Einaudi, Torino 2017.
• L. Canfora, Giulio Cesare. Il dittatore democratico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
• G. De Sanctis, La religione a Roma, Carocci, Roma 2012.
• A. Giardina, L’uomo romano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
• S. Mazzarino, La fine del mondo antico, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008.

• F. Santangelo, Roma repubblicana. Una storia in quaranta vite, Carocci 2019.
• P. Veyne, L’impero greco-romano. Le radici del mondo globale, Rizzoli, Milano 2007 (ed. or. L’empire gréco-romain, Seuil, Paris 2005).