HISTORY OF ANCIENT SICILY
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° YearLearning Objectives
The course, unique in the Italian academic panorama, aims to offer students a complete picture, as possible, of the salient moments in the history of ancient Sicily, encouraging a correct approach to the use of literary, epigraphic and numismatic sources. At the same time, tools will be provided for the study and processing of historical data. Among the objectives expected, and pursued through interactive lessons, in-progress tests and guided tours, there is the development of critical and judgement skills in the field of historical processes; the teaching also proposes to promote the communication skills of acquired concepts, through short oral simulations carried out during the lessons.
Course Structure
Frontal and interactive lessons; guided visits to sites of particular tourist interest are also planned
Detailed Course Content
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Fonts about the history of ancient Sicily; greek settlements in Sicily; Sicilian tyrants; the democratic interlude; Dionysius the Elder and his successors; Timoleon in Sicily; Agathocles’ reign; Sicily during the Punic wars; the first Roman province; Sicily as Rome’s granary; Sicily in the second century B.C.; Verres’ government; Sicily in the first century B.C.; Sextus Pompey, Octavian and Sicily; Sicily in the Augustan age; Roman emperors and Sicily; Sicilian latifundia under the Roman empire; Sicily from the fourth to the sixth century A.D. |
Textbook Information
General course: Sicily from the Archaic age to the Roman age
I) L. Braccesi- G. Millino, La Sicilia greca, Carocci, Roma 20103.
II) C. Soraci, La Sicilia romana, Roma 2016.
Second cycle degree’s students who chose this subject must study also:
- D. Palermo, Agrigento arcaica, Falaride e le città sicane dell’entroterra, in L. Cicala e B. Ferrara (a cura di), Kithon Lydios. Studi di storia e archeologia con Giovanna Greco, Napoli 2017, pp. 557-565;
- S. De Vido, Immagini di re e paradigmi di regalità. L’esempio dell’ultimo Agatocle, in De Sensi Sestito, M. Intrieri (a cura di),Sulle sponde dello Ionio: Grecia occidentale e Greci d’Occidente(= Diabaseis, 6), Pisa 2016, pp. 339-354;
- T. Gnoli, La battaglia delle Egadi. A proposito di ritrovamenti recenti, «RSA», 41, 2011, pp. 47-86;
- R. Zucca, Venus Erycina tra Sicilia, Africa e Sardegna, in A. Mastino (a cura di), L’Africa romana. Atti del VI convegno di studio (Sassari, 16-18 dicembre 1988), Sassari 1989, pp. 771-779;
- G. Salmeri, I caratteri della grecità di Sicilia e la colonizzazione romana, in Colonie romane nel mondo greco, cur. G. Salmeri, A. Raggi e A. Baroni, Roma 2004, pp. 255-307.