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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Students must have taken the Greek History exam during the three year degree course; alternatively, they need to know:
D. MUSTI, Storia greca. Linee di sviluppo dall'età micenea all'età romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.
Objectives
Contents «My beautiful little Alcibiades» (FGrHist 76 F 69)
Extended Syllabus The main phases of the events of Alcibiades’ life are retraced through critical reading of the principal sources, focusing in particular on the reflection, in the antique tradition and in the re-workings of subsequent ages, of a wholly extraordinary incidence of the personality in the Athenian (and Greek) collective imagination in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Recommended Bibliography - J. de Romilly, Alcibiade. Un avventuriero in una democrazia in crisi, Milano, Garzanti 2010; or W. M. Ellis, Alcibiade, Genova, ECIG 1993;
- E. Dimauro, Re contro. La rivalità dinastica a Sparta fino al regno di Agide II, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 2008, pp. 113-183;
- E. Dimauro, Timea, in U. Bultrighini-E. Dimauro, Donne che contano nella Storia greca, Lanciano, Carabba 2014, pp. 529-570.
Supplementary text for non-attending students:
P. J. Rhodes, Alcibiades. Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor, Barnsley, Pen&Sword Military 2011.
For both attending and non-attending students, a knowledge of the sources discussed during the course is fundamental and obligatory. They are downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.
Note:
For all students who have never taken an exam in Greek History during the three year degree course, the following is obligatory required reading: D. MUSTI, Storia greca. Linee di sviluppo dall'età micenea all'età romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.
Teaching Methods
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Type of exam:
Oral
Learning Assessment Method:
Oral exam.
ALL students (both Latinists/Greek scholars and otherwise) must sit the exam with the sources, of which they must demonstrate knowledge of content, framework and problems.
Assessment:
Final Marks
Contacts/More Information -Attendance is highly recommended.
-For the exam, it is indispensable that all students have in-depth knowledge of the sources discussed during the course.
-The Greek and Latin sources must be read in the original and translated, an element much appreciated when assessments are made. Students without any Greek or Latin will sit the exam with sources translated into Italian. Teaching material supplied during lessons (historiographical sources) is easily found on the University website at the end of lessons, for both attending and non-attending students.
-No alternative programmes are envisaged for non-attending students; supplementary texts for the latter are specified in the exam programme.