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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
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Objectives Contents Institutional module (6 ECTS): 1) Greek history from the Mycenaean age to the Roman conquest. (3 ECTS): 2) The debate on the condition of women in ancient Greece.
Extended Syllabus Institutional module 1 (=6 ECTS): Basic module based mainly on analysis of a series of passages from Greek authors. Outstanding moments of diachronic development of Greek history will be examined, with special attention to aspects of the political-ideological debate in Athens between the 5th and 4th century BC.
Reference Texts
Organisation of Teaching
42 hours of teacher up front lessons.
Further study module 2 (=3 ECTS): We shall also analyse the figures of women characterized by a not purely formal proximity to power and the object of loss of status in the tradition (and in modern critical reflection), such as Arete, Damareta, Elpinice, Aspasia, the family women of the Spartan reformer kings of the 3rd century BC, and others.
Reference Texts:info@editricecarabba.it ).
Organisation of Teaching
21 hours of teacher up front lessons.
Recommended Bibliography INSTITUTIONAL MODULE (6 ECTS):
at choice
FURTHER STUDY MODULE (3 ECTS):info@editricecarabba.it ).
Teaching Methods The course consists of 42h of frontal teaching (INSTITUTIONAL MODULE) and 21h of frontal teaching (FURTHER STUDY MODULE).
Lectures, exercises, and seminars by Italian and foreign specialists.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students' skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
Contacts/More Information For the purposes of the exam, for both attending and non-attending students, the first requirement is knowledge (translation and comment) of the ancient testimonies discussed during the course. The relevant material is found in the texts adopted for the exam. Any additional material will be downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.
- It is pointed out that the ability to translate the Greek sources is optional but particularly appreciated.
- The above reference texts constitute the exam programme for both attending and non-attending students, together with any material downloadable from the University website. It is further pointed out that any presumed unavailability of the programme texts is unacceptable, since the publisher’s site address where they can be found is supplied.
-Attendance is highly advisable.
-The Greek and Latin sources must be read in the original and translated. Students without any Greek will sit the exam with sources translated into Italian, which are easily found, as already specified in the programme texts and on the University website at the end of the course.
-To sit the exam you must bring the sources with you.
