GREEK HISTORY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

LTS002

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

GREEK HISTORY

Is part of:

ANCIENT HISTORY I

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BULTRIGHINI Umberto

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of the essential lines of Greek history of the archaic, classical and Hellenistic age.

Objectives

Learning Objectives

The course aims to supply students with the basics and method necessary for acquisition of the skills of analysis and reflection on the tradition concerning the complex doings of a personality who occupied the Athenian political and military stage during the difficult socio-political and economic situation subsequent to the Periclean experience. The fundamental aim is to focus on dynamics, contradictions and reference contexts, also in relation to the general problem of the incidence of individual attention-seeking in the eventful plot of the history of all times, and to possess adequate communicative resources on the theme in question.
The teaching contributes to achievement of the learning objectives of the Degree course in Philology, linguistics and literary traditions, aiming to consolidate and broaden the knowledge and philological methodologies acquired over the three years, with view to either proceeding towards a research Doctorate or finding work with publishing houses, public/private research and cultural institutes or cultural and academic foundations.

Contents

«My beautiful little Alcibiades» (FGrHist 76 F 69)

Extended Syllabus

The main phases of the events of Alcibiades’ life are retraced through critical reading of the principal sources, focusing in particular on the reflection, in the antique tradition and in the re-workings of subsequent ages, of a wholly extraordinary incidence of the personality in the Athenian (and Greek) collective imagination in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Recommended Bibliography

- J. de Romilly, Alcibiade. Un avventuriero in una democrazia in crisi, Milano, Garzanti 2010; or W. M. Ellis, Alcibiade, Genova, ECIG 1993;
- E. Dimauro, Re contro. La rivalità dinastica a Sparta fino al regno di Agide II, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 2008, pp. 113-183;
- E. Dimauro, Timea, in U. Bultrighini-E. Dimauro, Donne che contano nella Storia greca, Lanciano, Carabba 2014, pp. 529-570.
Supplementary text for non-attending students (optionally one of the two):
P. J. Rhodes, Alcibiades. Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor, Barnsley, Pen&Sword Military 2011, or
U. Bultrighini-E. Dimauro (a cura di), Pensare Giustizia tra Antico e Contemporaneo, Lanciano, Carabba 2019.

For both attending and non-attending students, a knowledge of the sources discussed during the course is fundamental and obligatory. They are downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.
Note:
For all students who have never taken an exam in Greek History during the three year degree course, the following is obligatory required reading: D. MUSTI, Storia greca. Linee di sviluppo dall'età micenea all'età romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.

Teaching Methods

The course consists of 42h of frontal teaching

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Type of exam:
Oral
Learning Assessment Method:
Oral exam.
ALL students (both Latinists/Greek scholars and otherwise) must sit the exam with the sources, of which they must demonstrate knowledge of content, framework and problems.
Assessment:
Final Marks

Contacts/More Information

-Attendance is highly recommended.
-For the exam, it is indispensable that all students have in-depth knowledge of the sources discussed during the course.
-The Greek and Latin sources must be read in the original and translated, an element much appreciated when assessments are made. Students without any Greek or Latin will sit the exam with sources translated into Italian. Teaching material supplied during lessons (historiographical sources) is easily found on the University website at the end of lessons, for both attending and non-attending students.
-No alternative programmes are envisaged for non-attending students; supplementary texts for the latter are specified in the exam programme.

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