Università Roma Tre

1. Introduction to Hellenistic history, history of scholarship, and available sources.
2. Politics, institutions, and cults in the Greek cities between the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, with particular attention to the poleis of Kos and Iasos in Caria.

The course includes:
(1) An introduction to the Hellenistic world.
(2) A new figure: the kings.
(3) An introduction to the world of the Greek poleis of the period.
(4) The course will examine their political institutions (both in terms of continuity and development), their relationship with kings, the role of the elite, and the intense network of relations among the cities themselves, including diplomatic relations, exchanges of honours and judges, recognitions of syngeneia and asylia, and shared participation in cults. These topics will be addressed through the evidence of literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and iconographic sources. Students will be introduced to the principal databases of literary texts and Greek inscriptions, as well as to the main bibliographical research tools.
(5) The course also includes student presentations on topics connected with the programme and agreed upon with the professor.

A) J. MA, “Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age”, P&P, 180, 9-40.
B) Angelos Chaniotis, The Divinity of the Hellenistic Ruler in A. ERSKINE (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003, pp. 431-446.
C) Due saggi a scelta tra i seguenti:
- Saggi di John Ma oppure Riet van Bremen oppure Patrice Baker oppure David Potter in A. ERSKINE (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003;
- Chr. MÜLLER, “Oligarchy and the Hellenistic City”, in H. BÖRM – N. LURAGHI (eds.), The Polis in the Hellenistic World, Stuttgart, F. Steiner Verlag, 2018, 27-52.