LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MASTER) 2015-16

Epigraphy, power, society: the Senatus consultum de Cnaeo Piso patre

The discovery in 1990 in southern Spain (Betica) of the bronze tablet on which was engraved the senatusconsultum containing the full text of the judgment of the trial against the legacy of Syria Cn. Calpurnius Piso allows you to re-read one of the most dramatic events in the history of the High Empire. Around the sudden death of Germanicus Caesar, in 19 AD, we see looming tensions in the Julio-Claudian house, the fluidity of the new Augustan regime, the eminent role of the Senate, the importance of the loyalty of the legions, the obsession of the Roman people for this deceased prince, but also the harmony between Piso and his wife Plancina. A great fresco of a changing society.

▪ Discipline: Latin epigraphy - SSD: L-ANT / 03.
▪ Study course: LETTERS (DM 270) Master of Science.
▪ Type: BASIC.
▪ Total credits: 6 = 36 teaching hours.
▪ Objectives: analysis and knowledge of the epigraph of Senatus consultum de Cn. Piso patre and its historical context.
▪ Teaching methods: lessons in the classroom.
▪ Teaching language: Italian (it is possible to arrange programs in English, French and German).
▪ Type of examination and evaluation: oral examination with final grade.
▪ SEMESTER: FIRST (November 2015 - January 2016).
▪ START CLASSES: Monday, November 16, 2015.
▪ TIME CLASSES: Mondays and Wednesdays, 14: 00-16: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department; Friday, 09: 00-11: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department.
▪ Prerequisites: requires knowledge of Latin, Roman history, also in conjunction with its course, and a frequency not occasional.
▪ Exam session: vd. calendar on the bulletin board and online.
▪ Receipt of lecturer: Wednesday at 9: 00-12: 00 (or by appointment to be fixed by mail - see. Below).
▪ Delivery of lecturer: pierfrancesco.porena@uniroma3.it.

LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MASTER)

▪ TEXTS of reference for attending students: xerocopies provided by the teacher in class.

▪ TEXTS of reference for non-attending students: they must agree on a program with the teacher.

D.M.270 / 2004
Academic Year 2015-2016

Undergraduate Degree Course in History and Conservation of Artistic Heritage
Scientific Department L-Ant/07 (Classical Archaeology)

Name of discipline
The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Supervisor: Prof. Luisa Musso Subject: The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Credits – 6 CFU = 36 hours of classroom
First Semester
Hours - 36

Prerequisite requierementes
The course is designed for students enrolled in Laurea Magistrale, who have a good knowledge of Greek history, Roman history, Latin language and literature, Greek language and literature.

Course description
The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The role of the army.

Bibliography

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida alla studio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna , 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.


Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

It is highly recommended to attend the lectures.

Exam type – Oral

Title of the course: Developments of monasticism in the early Middle Ages: the monastic writings of Isidore of Seville.

Description: First of all, the course aims to describe, in outline, origins and types of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of the religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the vocabulary and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum of Isidore of Seville, a text so far little studied, but due to one of the greatest authorities of medieval culture. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

Bibliography:
- Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, Santos Padres españoles, II : San
Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las
‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.
- A. de Vogüé, Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l’antiquité, Tome XI. Première partie: Le
monachisme latin. La Gaule franque et l’Espagne wisigothique (VI-VII siècle), Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris
2007, pp. 105-165.
- M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia. Aspetti istituzionali strutturali e
materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas N.S. 2015 [in corso di stampa].
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De
natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia
Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission 11 (2004) 205-263; in part. pp. 227-244.
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
Optional readings:
- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. Leclercq, Cultura umanistica e desiderio di Dio. Studio sulla letteratura monastica del Medioevo, trad.it.,
Ed. Sansoni, Firenze 2002.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

“Sons of the Covenant” or The asceticism in Syria before the birth of monasticism.
The course aims to introduce students to the great season of ascetic literature in Syriac language, represented by the Expositions of Afraates, the hymns of Efrem and the liber graduum. Particular attention will be paid to the historical context of which such literary production constitutes the expression, that is the institution of the "Sons of the Covenant,"an ascetic pattern that precedes monasticism and is sometimes in friction with episcopal power.

Bibliography:
- P. Bettiolo, Letteratura siriaca, in A.Di Berardino ( a cura di) Patrologia V. Dal Concilio di Calcedonia (451)
a Giovanni Damasceno (†750): I Padri Orientali, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Marietti, Genova
2000, pp. 413-493.
- V. Berti, Il monachesimo siriaco, in G.Filoramo (ed.), Monachesimo orientale. Un’introduzione, Morcelliana,
Brescia 2010, pp. 139-192.
Further indications will be provided during the class
For the students who can not attend class:
- P.Bettiolo, Letteratura siriaca, in A.Di Berardino ( a cura di) Patrologia V. Dal Concilio di Calcedonia (451) a
Giovanni Damasceno (†750): I Padri Orientali, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Marietti, Genova 2000,
pp. 413-493.
and one text among the following:
- G.Filoramo (ed.), Monachesimo orientale. Un’introduzione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2010.
- R. Murray, Symbols of Church and Kingdom. A Study in Early Syriac Tradition, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge 1975, repr. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2004.

The vase painting between Corinth, Sparta and Athens in the VII-V centuries B.C.

The course is for students of Science of Archaeology and students of other Master courses (particularly Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity, History of Art, etc.).
During the lessons will be considered the pottery productions made in Corinth, Sparta and Athens, between the seventh and fifth century. C. focusing on technical and iconographic aspects: from figurative themes, to the techniques of manufacturing goods, both as regards the organization of work .
The course will consist of head-on lessons, class discussion, educational visits.

The bibliography will be discussed during the first lesson of the course.

Selected bibliography.

L. Banti, s.v. Protocorinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, VI, Roma 1965;
Ch. Dehl von Kaenel, s.v. Protocorinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, IV, Roma 1996.
L. Banti, s.v. Corinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, II, Roma 1959;
Ch. Dehl von Kaenel, s.v. Corinzi vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, II, Roma 1994.
J. Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting, London 1998.
C.A. Pfaff, Archaic Corinthian Architecture, in Corinth XX, The Centenary 1896-1996, Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a cura di C.K. Williams II, N. Bookidis, Princeton 2003, pp. 95-140.
N. Bookidis, The Sanctuaries of Corinth, in Corinth XX, The Centenary 1896-1996, Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a cura di C.K. Williams II, N. Bookidis, Princeton 2003, pp. 247-259.
Athens and Sparta, catalogo della mostra (New York, Onassis Center 2006-2007), a cura di N. Kaltsas, New York 2006.
P. Pelagatti, s.v. Laconici vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Roma 1961.
C.M. Stibbe, s.v. Laconici vasi, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, Treccani, Secondo Supplemento, III, Roma 1995, pp. 249-251.
F. Coudin, Les vases laconiens entre Orient et Occident au Vie siècle av. J.-C.: formes et iconographie, in “Revue Archaeologique” (2009), pp. 227-263.
A. Tempesta, I quartieri artigianali, in I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, a cura di S. Settis, 4. Atlante, tomo II, Torino 2002, pp. 1065-1123.
I. Scheibler, Il vaso in Grecia. Produzione, commercio e uso degli antichi vasi in terracotta, (Biblioteca di Archeologia, 34), Milano 2004 (italian translation of Griechische Töpferkunst, München 1983), pp. 122-151.
M. C. Monaco, Ergasteria. Impianti artigianali ceramici ad Atene ed in Attica dal protogeometrico alle soglie dell’ellenismo, Roma 2000.
J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases. A Handbook, London 1974.
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook, New York 1975.
J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period: A Handbook, New York 1989.

For students who have never passed a test of Greek Archaeology it is strongly recommended to read the manual: G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, Arte greca, Milano 2008. The use of another manual should be agreed with the teacher.

Working students or those otherwise unable to participate in activities have to agree a supplement program.

Constantinople, May 29, 1453: fall or conquest? The "clash of civilizations" that sealed the beginning of the modern era in the testimony of the sources.
Course description
There are days that can change history, dates that become a symbol, a hologram, a mantra. Think of the initials Nine Eleven, on 11 September 2002, of the fall of the Twin Towers, which gave the 21st century the seal of what is called a "clash of civilizations". Or even less chilling, but equally symbolic dates, such as those to which the birth of the modern age is usually referred: 1492, when the discovery of America projected the Europeans far from the area of irradiation of the former Roman and later Byzantine empire, that is, of what Fernand Braudel called the Greater Mediterranean, the trade routes that for centuries had fought against Genoa and Venice; or 1517, when Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the portal of the church of the castle of Wittemberg. These two events are closely linked to a third party: indeed, they could be considered epiphenomena. If we wanted to indicate the date that really marks the beginning of the modern age, because it is also the cause of the other two, because it changed course to the Mediterranean trade, because it freed papacy from an antagonist – orthodoxy - and left space to the Protestant Reformation, and for a thousand other reasons, we should mention another date: that of May 29, 1453, the day of the fall - or conquest, depending on the point of view with which we want to look at it - of the Byzantine Empire, that is, ultimately, the Roman Empire. Through the reading and exegesis of the sources of both sides in the field, namely not only the Byzantine and Western, but also the Islamic ones, and in particular the Ottoman chroniclers of the court of Mehmet II, and through the analysis of facts and phenomena that preceded and determined on the one hand the Ottoman expansion towards the Mediterranean, on the other the growing isolation of the millennial "Roman" empire of Byzantium with respect to the new European powers, the course aims to induce students to develop an independent opinion, historical, methodologically founded and critically articulated, on this epochal event, which changed the history of two civilizations and which violently and powerfully inserted Islam into our European history: an event that has also acquired a new topicality in the contemporary geopolitical framework, and that is often evoked by the media, but in an almost always inexact manner, influenced by prejudice and ideological conditioning as well as, more simply, by the superficiality with which our Western historiography - almost always deprived of the tools available today of the young Byzantine discipline - wanted to simplify and disseminate it.

Bibliography
A) Mandatory texts

- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

B) Additional (optional) texts

- G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell’impero bizantino, Einaudi Tascabili 2005
- A. Pertusi, Testi inediti e poco noti sulla caduta di Costantinopoli. Edizione postuma a c. di A. Carile,
Pàtron, Bologna 1983
- A. Pertusi, Fine di Bisanzio e fine del mondo. Significato e ruolo storico delle profezie sulla caduta di
Costantinopoli in Oriente e in Occidente. Edizione postuma a c. di E. Morini, Istituto Storico Italiano per il
Medio Evo, Roma 1988
- S. Runciman, Gli ultimi giorni di Costantinopoli (trad. it.), Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1997
- I. Djuric, Il crepuscolo di Bisanzio (1392-1448) (trad. it.), Donzelli, Roma 1989
- F. Babinger, Maometto il Conquistatore, Einaudi, Torino 1970
- N. Gürsel, Il romanzo del Conquistatore, Pironti, Napoli 1997

C) Texts in foreign languages

- E. Pears, The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the
Turks, London 1903
- G. Schlumberger, Le siège de Constantinople en 1453, Plon, Paris 1922
- G. Walter, La ruine de Byzance (1204-1453), Albin Michel, Paris 1958
- D.M. Nicol, The End of the Byzantine Empire, Edward Arnold Publishers, London 1979
- D.M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor. The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos Last Emperor of the
Romans, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- R. Crowley, 1453. The Holy War for Constantinople and the Crash of Islam and the West, Hyperion, New
York 2005;
- C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002

II semester
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti
LM - Early Christian and Medieval Iconography

Genesis and Early Development of Mosaic Decoration in Roman Building

Assignment:
M. Braconi, Il catino absidale di S.Pudenziana. La storia,il restauro,l'interpretazione, Todi 3026

Students not attending lessons must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000; introduction and a choice of 30 voices.

Advanced course on linguistic change, its mechanisms and explanations at the different levels of analysis. Grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, reanalysis and their relationship with Construction Grammar. Historical grammar of IE languages known by students. Etymology and its bibliografical instruments.

Benedetti, M., 203, “L’etimologia tra storia e tipologia”, in Mancini, M. (a cura di), Il mutamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 209-262.
Additional material will be provided during the course.

LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MASTER) 2015-16

Epigraphy, power, society: the Senatus consultum de Cnaeo Piso patre

The discovery in 1990 in southern Spain (Betica) of the bronze tablet on which was engraved the senatusconsultum containing the full text of the judgment of the trial against the legacy of Syria Cn. Calpurnius Piso allows you to re-read one of the most dramatic events in the history of the High Empire. Around the sudden death of Germanicus Caesar, in 19 AD, we see looming tensions in the Julio-Claudian house, the fluidity of the new Augustan regime, the eminent role of the Senate, the importance of the loyalty of the legions, the obsession of the Roman people for this deceased prince, but also the harmony between Piso and his wife Plancina. A great fresco of a changing society.

▪ Discipline: Latin epigraphy - SSD: L-ANT / 03.
▪ Study course: LETTERS (DM 270) Master of Science.
▪ Type: BASIC.
▪ Total credits: 6 = 36 teaching hours.
▪ Objectives: analysis and knowledge of the epigraph of Senatus consultum de Cn. Piso patre and its historical context.
▪ Teaching methods: lessons in the classroom.
▪ Teaching language: Italian (it is possible to arrange programs in English, French and German).
▪ Type of examination and evaluation: oral examination with final grade.
▪ SEMESTER: FIRST (November 2015 - January 2016).
▪ START CLASSES: Monday, November 16, 2015.
▪ TIME CLASSES: Mondays and Wednesdays, 14: 00-16: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department; Friday, 09: 00-11: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department.
▪ Prerequisites: requires knowledge of Latin, Roman history, also in conjunction with its course, and a frequency not occasional.
▪ Exam session: vd. calendar on the bulletin board and online.
▪ Receipt of lecturer: Wednesday at 9: 00-12: 00 (or by appointment to be fixed by mail - see. Below).
▪ Delivery of lecturer: pierfrancesco.porena@uniroma3.it.

LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MAGISTRAL)

▪ TEXTS of reference for attending students: xerocopies provided by the teacher in class.

▪ TEXTS of reference for non-attending students: they must agree on a program with the teacher.

Theme: Necropoleis and rock tomb architecture in Etruria and in other areas of the Mediterranean
Credits: 6
Semester: second (6 hours per week)
Hours: 36
Description of the course: This course deals with the main aspects - typology, architecture, decoration, chronology, ideology ecc. - of the phenomenon of rock architecture - mainly of funerary character - in Etruria and in other areas of the Eastern Mediterranean (Asia Minor, Near East, Cyrenaica ecc.) during the first millennium B.C.

See the bibliography under Italian "Bibliografia" !

The course will focus on Plotinus treaty I, 2 On virtues. The text will be read and discussed in relation to Plotinus’ thought as well as to the cultural and philosophical context of neo-Platonism.

1: Plotino, Sulle virtù: I 2 [19], Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento di Giovanni Catapano, Prefazione di John M. Rist, Edizioni Plus - Università di Pisa, Pisa, 2006
2: Riccardo Chiaradonna, Plotino, Carocci, Roma, 2009
3: Eric R. Dodds, Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus, “Journal of Roman Studies”, 50 (1960), pp. 1-7
4: Alessandro Linguiti, Plotinus and Porphyry on the Contemplative Life, in M. Bonazzi - Th. Bénatouil, Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plotinus and Aristotle, Brill, Leiden, 2012, pp. 183-197
5: Charles Brittain, Attention Deficit in Plotinus and Augustine, “Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy” 18 (2003), 223-263

D.M. 270/2004 - A.A. 2015-2016
Course: S.S.D. L-ANT/10 ARCHAEOLOGY OF STANDING BUILDINGS

PROFESSOR: Maura Medri

LAUREA MAGISTRALE
Semestre II

CFU: 6
Course Programme

Course description
The course consists in 1 D.U. (didactic units); the following issues will be discussed.
The art of constructing: materials, building techniques, construction sites set-up, roofing, walls and foundations.
On-buildings stratigraphy: identifing marks, recording, interpreting, reconstructing ancient buildings.
Whithin the course, practice excercise of architectural drawing and archaeological sketchs reading will be scheduled.

Basic reference texts:
- J. P. Adam, L’arte del costruire presso i romani, Longanesi, Milano 1988.
- C. F. Giuliani, L’edilizia nell’antichità, Carocci, Roma 2006 (new edition with CDRom).
- M. Medri, V. Di Cola, Le Terme del Nuotatore. Cronologia di un’insula ostiense, Roma 2013, part I.

Prerequisite:
M. Medri, Manuale di rilievo archeologico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Digital materials about basic knowledge and texts can be found on line: www.archeologiametodologie.com.

Follow-up materials will be specified within the course.
Students not able to attend lessons must ask the Professor for supplementary texts.


Final examination procedures
Final exam consists in a test. Before taking the test, the students must have activated in advance their own official Roma Tre email address. Please find instructions at this link:
http://portalestudente.uniroma3.it/index.php?p=posta_studenti

Basic reference texts:
- J. P. Adam, L’arte del costruire presso i romani, Longanesi, Milano 1988.
- C. F. Giuliani, L’edilizia nell’antichità, Carocci, Roma 2006 (new edition with CDRom).
- M. Medri, V. Di Cola, Le Terme del Nuotatore. Cronologia di un’insula ostiense, Roma 2013, part I.

Prerequisite:
M. Medri, Manuale di rilievo archeologico, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003

Digital materials about basic knowledge and texts can be found on line: www.archeologiametodologie.com.

Follow-up materials will be specified within the course.
Students not able to attend lessons must ask the Professor for supplementary texts.


Final examination procedures
Final exam consists in a test. Before taking the test, the students must have activated in advance their own official Roma Tre email address. Please find instructions at this link:
http://portalestudente.uniroma3.it/index.php?p=posta_studenti

Aspects and Values of Decapitation in the Ancient Near-Eastern Cultures. Looking at the Textual and Visual Documentation from Third Millenium to First Millenium B.C.

The Students who don't attend the Course must agree with the Teacher a Specific Program within the First Month of starting Lessons.

The Exam regards both oral Text and brief Paper( in Italian, English or French Languages)on the Themes dealt during the Lessons, to submit to the Teacher

P. Matthiae, Prima lezione di archeologia, Universale Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.

M. Liverani,Antico oriente. Storia Società Economia, laterza, Roma-Bari 2007 ed ediz. sgg
(as further Reading only regarding Topic of the Course)

Further Texts in Italian and Foreign Languages and Other References regarding Topic of the Course will be suggested during the Lessons.

Religious Literature of the italian Middle Ages.
Origins and characteristics in Italy; reading and interpreting shortlisted texts from Laude, Iacopone da Todi and I Fioretti di san Francesco.

Bibliography:
- I Fioretti di san Francesco, a cura di L. Morini, BUR Rizzoli
- Iacopone da Todi e la poesia religiosa del Duecento, BUR Rizzoli 2001
- F. Suitner, I poeti del medio evo, Roma, Carocci 2010
- Reading a critical monography related to Iacopone da Todi, selected during the course.
Reading and interpreting two classical pieces of the Italian literature, to be chosen throughout the course (including appropriate introduction and explanatory notes).
Non-attending students will be requested to contact the professor for further bibliographical guidelines.

D.M.270 / 2004
Academic Year 2015-2016

Undergraduate Degree Course in History and Conservation of Artistic Heritage
Scientific Department L-Ant/07 (Classical Archaeology)

Name of discipline
The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Supervisor: Prof. Luisa Musso Subject: The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

Credits – 6 CFU = 36 hours of classroom
First Semester
Hours - 36

Prerequisite requierementes
The course is designed for students enrolled in Laurea Magistrale, who have a good knowledge of Greek history, Roman history, Latin language and literature, Greek language and literature.

Course description
The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The role of the army.

Bibliography

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida alla studio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna , 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.


Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

It is highly recommended to attend the lectures.

Exam type – Oral

Practices of conviviality in Ancient Christianity.
The course aims to introduce, through the analysis of sources of different typology, to the various forms of
Christian commensality: Christians, in fact, from the first century, met periodically around a table to celebrate "agape", "refrigeria", Eucharistic rites. The critical reading of the sources will allow to face the main methodological questions inherent the study of the ancient liturgy.

Bibliography:
- Paul F.Bradshaw, Alle origini del culto cristiano. Fonti e metodi per lo studio della liturgia dei primi secoli,Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2007, pp.57-86; 137-166; 243-264.
- R.Penna, La cena del Signore, Dimensione storica e ideale, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2015.
For students who can not attend class:
- Paul F.Bradshaw, Alle origini del culto cristiano. Fonti e metodi per lo studio della liturgia dei primi secoli, Libreria editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2007, pp.57-86; 137-166; 243-264.
- R.Penna, La cena del Signore, Dimensione storica e ideale, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2015.
- S.Heid, La preghiera dei primi cristiani, Qiqajon, Magnano 2013.

Horace’s Epodes. In this course a literary setting of the liber Epodum by Horace will be offered, toghether with a reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a commentary, with particular care to the aspects of poetical shape and form (models, metrics, style).

- Orazio, Il libro degli Epodi, a cura di A. Cavarzere, Venezia (ed. Marsilio).
- E. Fraenkel, Horace, Clarendon Press: Chapters I (‘Vita Horati’) e II (‘The Epodes’).

Religious Literature of the italian Middle Ages.
Origins and characteristics in Italy; reading and interpreting shortlisted texts from Laude, Iacopone da Todi and I Fioretti di san Francesco.

Bibliography:
- I Fioretti di san Francesco, a cura di L. Morini, BUR Rizzoli
- Iacopone da Todi e la poesia religiosa del Duecento, BUR Rizzoli 2001
- F. Suitner, I poeti del medio evo, Roma, Carocci 2010
- Reading a critical monography related to Iacopone da Todi, selected during the course.
Reading and interpreting two classical pieces of the Italian literature, to be chosen throughout the course (including appropriate introduction and explanatory notes).
Non-attending students will be requested to contact the professor for further bibliographical guidelines.