Institutional module 1 (=6 ECTS): Basic module based mainly on analysis of a series of passages from Greek authors. Outstanding moments of diachronic development of Greek history will be examined, with special attention to aspects of the political-ideological debate in Athens between the 5th and 4th century BC. We shall also analyse the figures of women characterized by a not purely formal proximity to power and the object of loss of status in the tradition (and in modern critical reflection), such as Arete, Damareta, Elpinice, Aspasia, the family women of the Spartan reformer kings of the 3rd century BC, and others.

Reference Texts
- D. MUSTI, Storia greca. Linee di sviluppo dall'età micenea all'età romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.
- U. BULTRIGHINI-E. DIMAURO (ed.), Donne che contano nella storia greca, Lanciano, Carabba Editore 2014 (info@editricecarabba.it).

Organisation of Teaching

42 hours of teacher up front lessons.

Further study module 2 (=3 ECTS): We shall analyse sources concerning the ideological debate in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, with special reference to the manifesto of classical democracy handed down by Thucydides in the epitaphios logos, delivered by Pericles in 431/0 BC, and to testimonies regarding the ideological opposition to the democratic regime.

Reference Texts:
- D. MUSTI, Pubblico e privato nella democrazia periclea, «Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica» n. s. 20, 1985, pp. 7-17.
- U. BULTRIGHINI, «Maledetta democrazia. Studi su Crizia», Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 1999 (info@ediorso.it).

Organisation of Teaching

21 hours of teacher up front lessons.