STORIOGRAFIA GRECA

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

STAR12

Academic Year of enrolment:

2024

Year of supply:

2024/2025

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

Disciplinary Sector:

GREEK HISTORY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

No requirement.

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GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY

PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Objectives

The course contributes to achieving the learning objectives of the MA degree course in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Traditions. It aims to consolidate and broaden the knowledge and methodologies acquired over the BA course in line with the professional positions and job opportunities that this MA envisages. Finally, the course aims to prepare students for postgraduate education both in Italy and abroad (Ph.D, specializing courses, etc...).

SKILLS

The course aims to provide students with the notions and method necessary to acquire the ability to critically analyze the sources from which it is possible to derive the historical reality of the political, social and economic transformations of Sparta, in the transition from the late Archaic to the Classical period.
The methodological criterion is that of direct reading and commenting on the most significant sources and appropriate reflection on the comparison of the data offered by tradition.

SELF ASSESSMENT

Students must manifest the ability to critically and comparatively analyse the contents of the sources and their genesis.

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

In historical and critical framing, the student must demonstrate versatility in supplying clear and exhaustive communication.

Contents

Historical and historiographical problems of late archaism: Sparta from the hegemony on the Peloponnese to the persian wars.

Extended Syllabus

The period of great political, social and economic transformation experienced by Sparta will be analyzed, starting from the achievement of the hegemonic position of the Peloponnese until the outbreak of the Persian wars. The period is characterized in particular by the role played by the great personality of King Cleomenes I, committed to implementing the directives set in the period of the Ephorus Chilo. In particular, the problem will be analyzed, also relevant from the methodological point of view of the process of denigration and damnatio that the figure of Cleomenes knew during the fifth century BC.

Recommended Bibliography

-E. DIMAURO, Re contro. La rivalità dinastica a Sparta fino al regno di Agide II, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria 2008 (edizionidellorso@libero.it).

- U. BULTRIGHINI, Il re è pazzo, il re è solo. Cleomene I di Sparta, Carabba Editore, Lanciano 2016 (info@editricecarabba.it).

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures, exercises, seminars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students' skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

-For the purposes of the exam, for both attending and non-attending students, the first requirement is knowledge (translation and comment) of the ancient testimonies discussed during the course. The relevant material is found in the texts adopted for the exam. Any additional material will be downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.

- It is pointed out that the ability to translate the Greek sources is optional but particularly appreciated.

- The above reference texts constitute the exam programme for both attending and non-attending students, together with any material downloadable from the University website. It is further pointed out that any presumed unavailability of the programme texts is unacceptable, since the publisher’s site address where they can be found is supplied.

-Attendance is highly advisable.

-The Greek and Latin sources must be read in the original and translated. Students without any Greek will sit the exam with sources translated into Italian, which are easily found, as already specified in the programme texts and on the University website at the end of the course.
-No alternative programmes are envisaged for non-attending students.
-The arguments dealt with at any seminars are to be considered an integral part of the course and the exam.

-To sit the exam you must bring the sources with you.

- Student reception:
Tuesday from 14 to 16; Thursday 14-16.

-Erasmus incoming students are welcome.
They can take the exam in English and have, on request, guidance services and tutorship in English.

The texts are as follows:

- P.J. Rhodes, A History of the Classical Greek World 478-322 BC, Oxford, Blackwell 2006.

- S. B. Pomeroy, Spartan Women, Oxford University Press 2002.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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