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Teacher
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Terrinoni Alessia
(syllabus)
The course aims to provide students with the tools for a scientific approach to the study of Roman history, from its origins to the 'noiseless fall' of the West. The first part of the course will deal with issues of chronology, historical geography, historiography and epigraphy, alternating between lectures of a more event-oriented nature and others focusing on broad methodological issues. The second part of the course will instead have a monographic and seminar character: it will be dedicated to the study of the senate, an institution that was always present in Rome, from the monarchy to Late Antiquity, whose evolution proceeded in parallel with the many upheavals of the res publica Romana.
A) GENERAL PART
Periodization; the sources for Roman history; the Roman calendar; the birth of Rome; the age of kings; the birth of the Republic and the Roman constitution; republican institutions and the cursus honorum magistratuale; the evolution 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.
B) MONOGRAPHIC STUDY
The Senate of Rome, between change and continuity
The Senate of Rome, more than other institutions of the Res Publica, is the element of continuity that from monarchy to Late Antiquity characterised the history of Rome. From this particular assembly, composed only of magistrates and ex-magistrates and in which the Greek historian Polybius recognised a marked aristocratic element, passed all the topics of discussion that were important for the life of the Res Publica, both in the phases in which the senate's opinion actually directed the political action of the magistrates and the entire civic life of the civitas, and when it limited itself to cooperating with the emperors in the search for mediation, and when it was forced to remain a spectator of the decisions of others.
Studying the senate therefore means looking at a privileged observatory to follow the entire course of Rome's history.
The monographic part of this course will therefore be dedicated to outlining the characteristics of this assembly, its composition, the places in which it met, its calendar, its action and its limits. It will then examine an anthology of senatorial deliberations, handed down either epigraphically or in manuscript form, examining both the forms of the senatus consultum and its contents, and thus the historical-institutional-legal problems that they resolved.
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) Gabirella Poma, Le istituzioni politiche del Mondo romano
3) A. Giardina, Roma antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
4) Materiale didattico illustrato a lezione.
STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND LECTURES AND THOSE ENROLLED TO TAKE THE ROMAN HISTORY EXAMINATION AS A SINGLE COURSE WILL CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING VOLUMES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TEACHING MATERIAL MENTIONED IN POINT 4):
M. Beard, SPQR. Storia dell’antica Roma, Mondadori, Milano 2016 (ed. or. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, 2015, Profile Books, London 2015);
P. Brown, Il mondo tardoantico. Da Marco Aurelio a Maometto, Einaudi, Torino 2017.
P. Buongiorno, Claudio, il principe inatteso, 21 Editore, Palermo 2017.
L. Canfora, Giulio Cesare. Il dittatore democratico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
G. De Sanctis, La religione a Roma, Carocci, Roma 2012.
F. Dupont, La vita quotidiana nella Roma repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
L. Fezzi, Il dado è tratto. Cesare e la resa di Roma, Laterza 2017
A. Giardina, L’uomo romano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
A. Giardina, Roma antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
A. Marcone, Augusto. Il fondatore dell’impero che cambiò la storia di Roma e del mondo, Salerno, Roma 2015.
S. Mazzarino, La fine del mondo antico, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008.
F. Santangelo, Roma repubblicana. Una storia in quaranta vite, Carocci 2019.
R. Syme, La rivoluzione romana, Einaudi, Torino 2020.
P. Veyne, L’impero greco-romano. Le radici del mondo globale, Rizzoli, Milano 2007 (ed. or. L’empire gréco-romain, Seuil, Paris 2005).
STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT READ THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO AGREE UPON THE EXAMINATION'S BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH THE PROFESSOR.
(reference books)
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) Gabriella Poma, Le istituzioni politiche del Mondo romano
3) A. Giardina, Roma antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
M. Beard, SPQR. Storia dell’antica Roma, Mondadori, Milano 2016 (ed. or. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, 2015, Profile Books, London 2015);
P. Brown, Il mondo tardoantico. Da Marco Aurelio a Maometto, Einaudi, Torino 2017.
P. Buongiorno, Claudio, il principe inatteso, 21 Editore, Palermo 2017.
L. Canfora, Giulio Cesare. Il dittatore democratico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
G. De Sanctis, La religione a Roma, Carocci, Roma 2012.
F. Dupont, La vita quotidiana nella Roma repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
L. Fezzi, Il dado è tratto. Cesare e la resa di Roma, Laterza 2017
A. Giardina, L’uomo romano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006.
A. Giardina, Roma antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2000.
A. Marcone, Augusto. Il fondatore dell’impero che cambiò la storia di Roma e del mondo, Salerno, Roma 2015.
S. Mazzarino, La fine del mondo antico, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2008.
F. Santangelo, Roma repubblicana. Una storia in quaranta vite, Carocci 2019.
R. Syme, La rivoluzione romana, Einaudi, Torino 2020.
P. Veyne, L’impero greco-romano. Le radici del mondo globale, Rizzoli, Milano 2007 (ed. or. L’empire gréco-romain, Seuil, Paris 2005).
STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT READ THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO AGREE UPON THE EXAMINATION'S BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH THE PROFESSOR.
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