B003919 - GREEK HISTORY

Italian

Xenophon and Velleius Paterculus: historiographical perspectives from the battlefield. The course aims to explore the methodology required to understand different types of sources and is divided into two sections.
Part A Greek Historiography. Prof. Bucciantini: Xenophon from actor to author, autobiographical and historical issues in the Anabasis.
Part B. Roman Historiography. Prof. Faoro: The image of Tiberius in Velleius Paterculus.

Part A Greek Historiography Prof. Bucciantini:
S. Mazzarino, Il pensiero storico classico, Editori Laterza 1966 and later reprints.
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Monduzzi, Bologna 2008.
K-Meister, La storiografia greca, Dalle origini alla fine dell'Ellenismo, Editori Laterza 1992 and later reprints.
Part B Roman Historiography Prof. Faoro:
M. Manca - F. Rohr Vio, Introduzione alla storiografia romana, Carocci, Roma 2019

In accordance with the training objectives set out in the course declaration, the course aims to provide the knowledge and historiographical method to teach the critical use of betrayed sources; indeed, it will have the specific objective of providing a full mastery of the methods of investigation through the reading and critical commentary of selected passages. Students will acquire the ability to orient themselves in the main issues of the discipline and to develop an adequate critical approach. Through guided reading of texts, students will acquire the foundations of a historiographical method indispensable for the continuation of their studies. On the behavioural side, students will be urged to actively participate in lessons in order to develop critical thinking, the ability to organise and expound on the issues addressed as well as argumentative skills.

Ancient sources will be translated during the lessons but a good basic knowledge of Latin and ancient Greek is recommended.

Lectures with the aid of a dossier of literary sources, accompanied by power point presentations. Consistent with the learning objectives, the teachers will address topics of particular historical and historiographical relevance in order to stimulate the students' interest and increase their critical capabilities.

Regular and active participation in class is strongly recommended. Students are invited to meet the teachers at the appropriate reception times (published on the website) for any problems relating to the course. Non-attending students should contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course to agree on a specific programme.

Disabled students or students with learning disabilities are invited to contact the "UNIFI Include" desk in order to set up the course in the most appropriate manner for their specific needs. The agreed measures must be shared with the teacher in due time.

The final examination consists of an interview aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of knowledge and skills through an oral test on the texts discussed during the lectures. Through the analysis of the historical texts discussed in class and through the study of textbooks, the student will have to show that has acquired the required skills. In particular, the student's ability to contextualise and critically analyse the history of ancient historiography through the sources will have to be assessed.

Xenophon and Velleius Paterculus: historiographical perspectives from the battlefield.
Part A Greek Historiography Prof. Bucciantini:
1-Brief introduction to the problems of Greek historiography (with obligatory bibliographical references).
3-Reference text:
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Monduzzi, Bologna 2008.
Optional: S.Mazzarino, Il pensiero storico classico, Editori Laterza 1966 ( or later editions), Bari.
Part B Roman Historiography Prof. Faoro:
- Introduction to Roman historiography from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.
2- Historiography in the age of Tiberius: historical truth put to the test of absolutism. The affair of Cremutius Chordus.
3- Velleius and Tiberius from Germania to Illyricum: from the battlefield to 'true adhesion'.
4- -Reference text:
M. Manca - F. Rohr Vio, Introduzione alla storiografia romana, Carocci, Rome 2019 (full course compulsory).
For students on master's degree courses in:
Philosophy B003919 (B106): Text and Interpretation (F040) and of Forms of Feeling, Artistic Practices and Anthropological Transformations (F041),
who have not taken the Greek history examination, the study of C. Bearzot, Manuale di storia greca, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005, is also compulsory.

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