GREEK HISTORY

During the lessons of Greek History the students will improve their knowledge of the main events of Greece itself and all the adjacent areas dominated by the Greeks from the origins to the Roman intervention.

The course aims at offering students a complete knowledge of Greek history with a good understanding of the distinctive features of the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Attendance at the course will allow them to understand the main socio-political and economic phenomena which affected the Hellenic world, with their peculiar historical development, as well as their most significant historical, social and cultural wide-ranging connections. They will also learn some essential critical and historiographical equipments and methods.

Formal lectures.

- Geographic and chronological framing of the Hellenic World, with reference to its historical, cultural and anthropological peculiarities, and of ancient historiography (elements) (Module A: 3CFU).

- Lineaments of Greek history from the Mycenaean period to Hellenism, with related periodization (Module B: 4CFU), with a particular attention to the following topics (Modulus B: 4CFU):

• Polis: the socio-political model of the city-state, its formation and its development

• Archaic apoikìa and Greek colonial experiences, with particular reference to Sicily

• Archaic aristocracies between competition and political reforms

• Tyrants and autocratic systems (with particular reference to the innovative experiences of Greek Sicily)

• The Persian Wars: a historical watershed

• Hegemonic bipolarism in Greece and the Peloponnesian War

• Greece beyond the polis: koinà, ethne and inter-state polities

• Conflicts for hegemony and the affirmation of Philip of Macedonia

• Alexander and the conquest of the East

• The historical model of the universal monarchy and the Hellenistic monarchies

• The Hellenistic world between tradition and innovation

- Thematic study (with elements of historiographical analysis and critics review): Greek history and Mediterranean mobility. Structures and figures (Module C: 2CFU).

Historical Atlans (free choose);
Module A
G. Daverio Rocchi, Il mondo dei Greci. Profilo di storia, civiltà e costume, Milan 2008, pp. 5-43; 97-224.
D. Ambaglio, Storia della storiografia greca, Bologna (Monduzzi)
P. Cabanes, Introduzione alla storia del mondo antico, Rome (Donzelli), 2002
Module B
Handbook
M. Bettalli, A.L. D’Agata, A. Magnetto, Storia greca, Rome (Carocci) 2013
Module C:
F. Prontera, Il Mediterraneo come quadro della storia greca, in S. Settis (ed.), I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società, vol. II.1. Turin, pp. 25-45
M. Giangiulio, Avventurieri, Mercanti, coloni, mercenari. Mobilità umana e circolazione di risorse nel Mediterraneo antico, in S. Settis (ed.). I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società, I, Torin 1996, pp. 497-525
M. Gras, Il Mediterraneo nell’età arcaica, Fond. Paestum 1997
F. Frisone-M. Lombardo, Periferie? Sicilia, Magna Grecia, Asia Minore, in M. Giangiulio (ed.), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol III., Grecia e Mediterraneo dall'VIII sec. a. C. all’Età delle guerre persiane, Roma 2007, pp. 178-225
Further readings and bibliographical references will be indicated and/or provided during the lessons