- Docente: Beatrice Girotti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ANT/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
Learning outcomes
The student at the end of the course knows the development of historiography in Greek and Roman antiquity from its Latin origins to the late Roman Empire. He knows the heuristic techniques and edition of historical sources of textual character, able to apply critical analysis methodologies. Can communicate in oral form by choosing the appropriate registers, you know documenting methodologies and used in the historical narrative historiographical approaches.
Course contents
Language of lessons: ITALIAN
Modulo I (lezz. 1-6)
-La nascita della storiografia. La storiografia greca; Erodoto-Tucidide-Senofonte. Polibio. Graecia capta
-La storiografia latina, gli annalisti; Catone. Il tradizionalismo; definizione Annali; Livio prefazione (letture passi Cicerone Polibio Livio)
-Imperialismo. Sallustio; Catilina (in Sallustio e Cicerone) e Giugurta
-Storiografia del principato: storiografia e biografia. Tacito e Svetonio
Modulo II (lezz. 7-15)
-Storiografia III secolo: avvenimenti; critica, EKG (con passi in letture); panegiristica
-Costantino: storiografia cristiana e pagana
-Zosimo, Eusebio e conversione di Costantino
-Annales di Nicomaco Flaviano, Orosio, Jordanes, Marcellinus comes
- Lettura e commento di alcune Lettere di San Gerolamo
- Il Sacco Di Roma tra Gerolamo e gli storici pagani
Readings/Bibliography
_Manca-Rohr Vio, Introduzione alla storiografia romana,
_appunti e materiali didattici discussi a lezione
Students who not attend lesson (please send an e-mail to the teacher before the exam)
_Manca-Rohr Vio, Introduzione alla storiografia romana,
_Testo da concordare con il docente, a ricevimento o via mail.Teaching methods
Oral lessons. we distribute educational materials so that we can discuss in class, comparing the different interpretations.
Students will require additional educational materials to be deepened.
Assessment methods
Oral examination. For the conditions to be attending and not attending please get in touch with the teacher, by mail or at the reception.
Teaching tools
Photocopies, slides, text in the original language and in translation; pdf of modern historiography and contemporary contributions.
Office hours
See the website of Beatrice Girotti