The student will acquire a good manual knowledge of Greek general history from the origins to Alexander the Great and will be introduced to the problems and methods of analysis of the various types of historical documentation (literary, epigraphic, archaeological, numismatic).
teacher profile teaching materials
For non-attending students:
M. Nafissi, Il ritorno di Licurgo, Perugia, 2024 (available as open access).
Mutuazione: 20703152 STORIA GRECA I in Lettere L-10 R FABIANI ROBERTA
Programme
Geography of the Greek world. Periodization of Greek history. The Bronze Age: Minoan civilization. The Bronze Age: Mycenaean civilization and its collapse. The Dark Ages. The formation of the polis. Definition of polis. The so-called Greek Renaissance and its characteristics. The Homeric poems as a historical source. The so-called colonization. The aristocratic way of life. The experience of tyranny. Sparta: main lines of internal political development from the Iron Age to the so-called “sixth-century reform.” Athens: main lines of internal political development in the Archaic period: Draco, Solon, Pisistratus and the Pisistratids, Cleisthenes. The formation of the Persian Empire. The Ionian Revolt. The Persian Wars. The Pentekontaetia. The Peloponnesian War in all its three phases. The consequences of Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The consequences of Sparta’s victory in the Peloponnesian War. The Corinthian War. Sparta and the cities of Asia Minor. The King’s Peace. Theban hegemony. Philip II and the rise of Macedonia. Alexander the Great and his campaign. The Diadochi and the three wars among them. The formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms: the Ptolemies, Seleucids, Antigonids, and Attalids. The Chremonidean War. The Achaean League. Events of the third century BC. Sparta in the third century BC. The Macedonian Wars. The wars against the Seleucids. Rome and Egypt.Core Documentation
M. BETTALLI, Introduzione alla storia greca, Bologna, Il Mulino 2021, pp. 15-23, 37-49, 53-76, 159-183, 211-234, 265-431.For non-attending students:
M. Nafissi, Il ritorno di Licurgo, Perugia, 2024 (available as open access).
Attendance
Attendance is optional. However, attending students are required to be present for at least 26 out of 40 hours; attendance will be verified by roll call.Type of evaluation
Students will be asked questions aimed at assessing their knowledge of the main developments in Greek history from the Bronze Age to the Macedonian Wars. Additional questions will concern their knowledge of the works of the founding figures of Greek historiography, Herodotus and Thucydides. Their knowledge of the geography of the Greek world and of the main locations relevant to Greek history will also be assessed.