ROMAN HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

FLT060

Academic Year of enrolment:

2024

Year of supply:

2024/2025

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART

Disciplinary Sector:

ROMAN HISTORY

Is part of:

ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FILIPPINI ALISTER

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Students are supposed to have already taken the exam of Roman History (Bachelor Degree Course). Otherwise they are kindly requested to:

1) study a handbook of Roman History (mandatory):
AA.VV. (coordinamento di M. MAZZA), Storia di Roma dalle origini alla Tarda Antichità, Catania, Edizioni del Prisma, 2014, the whole book (pp. 9-469).

2) contact Dr. Filippini, long before taking the exam, in order to fix the program in advance, beyond any doubt: alister.filippini@unich.it

The knowledge of ancient languages, Latin and Greek, is quite useful (yet not mandatory).

Objectives

This class aims to supply students with the basics and method necessary for acquisition of the skills of analysis and reflection on the tradition concerning the Roman imperial government facing the so called "barbarian" peoples of central Europe. The fundamental aim is to focus on dynamics, contradictions and reference contexts, and to possess adequate communicative resources on historical dynamics analogous to those in question.

This class contributes to the achievement of the learning objectives of the Master Degree Course, aiming to consolidate and broaden the knowledge and philological / technical methodologies acquired over the three years, with view to either proceeding towards a research Doctorate or finding work with public/private research and cultural institutes or cultural and academic foundations.

Contents

Title: "Rome and the barbarians of the Rhine-Danube frontier, 1st-2nd centuries AD".

This class focuses on the problematic relations between the Roman imperial authority and the barbarian peoples (Germans, Sarmatians, Dacians) of central and Eastern Europe and the expansion of imperial frontiers between the Rhine and the Danube, from the age of Augustus to that of Commodus' (27 BC - AD 192). Ancient sources of different kinds (literary, epigraphic, papyrological, numismatic, iconographic, archaeologic) will be analysed and discussed.

Extended Syllabus

Ancient sources of different kinds will be analysed and discussed:
a) literary sources (Livy, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, Suetonius, Appian, Ptolemy, Cassius Dio, Historia Augusta, Jordanes etc.);
b) “non literary” sources, that is epigraphic (Latin and Greek inscriptions), numismatic (coins), iconographic (reliefs), archaeological sources.

Recommended Bibliography

A. Texts and teaching documents which are mandatory for ALL STUDENTS (attending / non-attending):

1) slides of class lectures, including ancient sources, will be downloadable as files.PDF from the website DiLASS, page Materiale didattico: https://www.dilass.unich.it/node/6865
2) TACITO. Germania, Introduzione, traduzione e commento di S. AUDANO, Milano, Rusconi Libri, 2020, the whole book (pp. I-CXCVIII + 1-180)
3) R. SYME, Chapter XII. The Northern Frontiers under Augustus, in Cambridge Ancient History, 1st edition, vol. X, Cambridge, 1934, pp. 340-381 (downloadable as files.PDF from the website DiLASS, page Materiale didattico)
4) U. ROBERTO, Il nemico indomabile. Roma contro i Germani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2018, the whole book (pp. I-VII + 1-360)

B. Additional text, which is mandatory just for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
5) A. BARBERO, Barbari. Immigrati, profughi, deportati nell'Impero romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006 (and following reprints), the whole book (pp. I-XVIII + 1-290).

C. Suggested readings (NON mandatory) for ALL STUDENTS:
6) A. BARBERO, Barbari. Immigrati, profughi, deportati nell'Impero romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006 (and following reprints).
7) C. MAGRIS, Danubio, Milano, Garzanti, 1986 (and following reprints).

Attention: NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS are kindly requested to contact Dr. Filippini, before taking the exam, in order to fix the program in advance, beyond any doubt: alister.filippini@unich.it

Teaching Methods

Lectures, guided reading of texts and multimedia resources. The teaching documents shown and discussed in class will be downloadable (texts and slides, as files.PDF) from the website DiLASS, page Materiale didattico: https://www.dilass.unich.it/node/6865

42 hours of class lectures; conferences and seminars will be organized throughout the semester. It is recommended that students regularly attend lesson.

Non-attending students are gently requested to contact Dr. Filippini before taking the exam: alister.filippini@unich.it

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus (texts, lessons, sources, teaching materials). 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

Attention: NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS are kindly requested to contact Dr. Filippini, long before taking the exam, in order to fix the program in advance, beyond any doubt: alister.filippini@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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