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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Students must have taken the Roman History exam during the three year degree course; alternatively, they need to know:
M. Pani – E. Todisco, Storia romana. Dalle origini alla tarda antichità, Carocci 2008
Objectives
Contents Caligula and the snares of power (= 6 ECTS)
Extended Syllabus The main phases of the events of Caligula’s rule are retraced through in-depth reading of and reflection upon the principal sources, seeking to clarify the roots and reasons behind the damnatio found in Suetonius, Tacitus, Seneca, Josephus and Philo.
Recommended Bibliography - D. NONY, Caligola, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 1988.
Recommended supplementary text (not obligatory):
- G. GERACI-A. MARCONE, Fonti per la storia romana, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2011.
Supplementary texts for non-attending students:
A. WINTERLING, Caligola. Dietro la follia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005.
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 Roman History during the three year Degree Course, the following is obligatory required reading: M. Pani – E. Todisco, Storia romana. Dalle origini alla tarda antichità, Carocci 2008
Teaching Methods
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
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 -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. 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.