29714 - Roman Historiography (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Antonio Baldini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ANT/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)

Course contents

Biography, History, Chronicles: the  Historian's Consciousness in front of the Power.

Readings/Bibliography

Notes from lessons.

To complete: A. Giordano Rampioni, F. Piazzi, M.A. Sabatino Tumscitz, "Novos decerpere flores. Generi, autori, testi della letteratura latina, storiografia", Bologna, Cappelli, 2006;R. Vattuone, S. Giurovich, G. Poma, Le fonti letterarie, in Le Fonti per la storia antica,a cura di Gabriella Poma, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, pp. 115-158.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons.

Assessment methods

Oral Examination.

Teaching tools

Texts of ancient authors.

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Baldini