Master In Ancient History, Culture And Civilization

The Master’s program content consist of the following modules: Introductory Module: Understanding civilization in terms of society, economy and collective mentality Philosophy and Greek myths Transcendence and expression in the Axial Age Origins, expansion and decline of the Persian Empire Module I – Historical Research Methodology: The evolution of MHR from 1800 to 1900 The doctrine of sources: Gustav Droysen and Federico Chabod Charles Seignobos’ social history and Leopold von Ranke’s doctrine of sources Sources and meta-sources: the historian in the Internet age Module II – Historiography: Greek historiography from its origins to the Roman Imperial Period The methodological approaches of Herodotus and Thucydides Roman historiography and related genres in the period from the Republic to the Principate; The works of the main Latin historians: M. P. Cato, Julius Caesar, Suetonius and Titus Livy. Module III – History of Institutions: Greek and Roman political systems The development of political theory in Greece Politics from Xenophon to Alexander the Great Cicero’s political philosophy and Plutarch’s political stand Module IV – Social and Economic History: The development of the Athenian democratic constitution and the role of political debates Greek economy and its development from the archaic period to the Early Empire Economic, social and political changes in Rome from the III century BC to the Early Empire The economic history of the Roman Republic from a legal perspective Module V – Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman Civilization: The emergence of the political in ancient Greece The political uses of rhetoric in the Athenian democracy The history of Italy under the Roman republic The relationship between Rome and the Greek world Module VI – Art, Culture and Communication of Antiquity: Greek tragedy and its political function The origin of Attic comedy and its social and political role The origin and development of literary genres in the Roman republic Roman art and spectacle in the republican age