Università Roma Tre

The course aims to offer: a) a general introduction to the hellenistic world; (b) a presentation of some institutions of the hellenistic poleis; (c) the analysis of some relationships between different political subjects in the hellenistic era; (d) the analysis of some aspects of the social life in the hellenistic times; (e) reading, contextualization and historical-critical analysis of some literary texts and epigraphs; (f) an introduction to the main databases of Greek literary texts and inscriptions and to the most important bibliographic research tools.

A) M. Mari (a cura di), L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019 (entire volume).
B) J. Ma, “Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age”, P&P, 180, 9-40.
C) Essays by John Ma, Riet van Bremen, Patrice Baker, David Potter, Angelos Chaniotis in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003.
D) L. Moretti, La scuola, il ginnasio, l’efebia, in R. Bianchi Bandinelli (dir.), Storia e civiltà dei Greci, 8. La società ellenistica. Economia, diritto, religione, Milano 1977, 469-490.
E) 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.
F) Material provided by the teacher.