ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Ancient History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To study the classical civilization-culture classic in deeper insights, based on three basic aspects that still have a meaning in the history of the West:
- The concept of citizenship and the relationship between the individual and the State
- The structure of the State
- The social project
- To know the major Greek political utopias and radical Athenian democracy in front of the Roman pragmatism, through original documents, both historiographical and literary: from ethnic identity to political-cultural membership.
- To discuss the maintenance in the Western cultural thought of classical art and civilization and their role in modern criticism, through the approach to some of their echoes in contemporary literature.
1. the Mycenaean society through the texts. The decipherment of linear B and the history of Greek social life. The society of the palaces: social hierarchy and inclusion exclusion. Oriental models and Greek uniqueness. Continuity and rupture at the end of the Mycenaean world.
2. the Athens in the 5th century. The uniqueness of Athens and the diversity of the sources for your study. The definition of the citizen and the milestones in the history of the Athenian citizenship. Democratic institutions. The non-excluded: barbarians and other Greeks. The excluded interiors: slaves, metecos, the uniqueness of the craftsmen.
3. the Roman democracy. Historiographical approaches. Polybius: the anacyclosis. Contio and comitium. The Senate. The high courts. Optimates and popular. The law.
4. Cicero. Biography. Dialogues about the Republic and the laws. The treatise on the duties. Conflict vs. Consensus. The modern reception: the republicanism of Q. Skinner and M. Viroli.
5. the Empire. Concept of Empire. The Roman citizenship. The ius Latii. Judges and decuriones. Irnitana and Ursonense laws. The provincial Governor. The edict of El Bierzo, postcolonialism and romanization.
6 slaves and Freedmen in the Empire. Social Statusclase. Expansion of slavery. The debate about manumission. The independent freedmen
TEMA 1
J. Chadwick, El Mundo micénico. Madrid, 1998: Alianza.
R. Castleden,. Mycenaeans. Londres, 2005: Routledge.
C.W. Shelmerdine, The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge U.P. 2008.
TEMA 2
M. Austin & P. Vidal-Naquet, Economía y sociedad en la Antigua Grecia (Barcelona 1986; 1ª ed. francesa 1972).
J. Brunschwig, G.E.R. Lloyd, El Saber griego : diccionario crítico. Madrid, 2000 : Akal.
A.Domínguez Monedero, (et al.), 1999. Historia del mundo clásico a través de sus textos 1. Grecia. Madrid: Alianza.
D. Musti, Demokratía: orígenes de una idea. Madrid, 2000: Alianza.
C. Mossé, Pericles : el inventor de la democracia. Madrid, 2007: Espasa Calpe.
D. Plácido Suárez, La Sociedad ateniense : la evolución social en Atenas durante la guerra del Peloponeso, Barcelona, 1997: Crítica.
A.Iriarte,. Democracia y tragedia, Torrejón de Ardoz, 1996: Akal.
M.H. Hansen, The Trial of Sokrates from the Athenian point of view, Copenhagen 1995: Munksgaard.
R. K. Sinclair, Democracia y participación en Atenas. Madrid, 1999: Alianza.
TEMA 3
V. Arena, Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic, Cambridge U.P., 2012.
J.-L. Ferrary, “Le idee politiche a Roma nell´epoca republicana”, en L. Firpo, dir., Storia delle idee politiche, economiche e sociali, vol. I: L’Antichità classica, Turín, 1982.
K.-J. Hölkeskamp, “The Roman Republic: Government of the People, by the People, for the People?”, Scripta Classica Israelica 19 (2000), p. 203-233.
A. Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic, Oxford, 1999, Clarendon Press.
F. Millar, The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic, Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan, 1998.
C. Moatti, La razón de Rome. El nacimiento del espíritu crítico a fines de la República, trad. cast. Madrid, A. Machado, 2008 (ed. original, París, 1997).
Cl. Nicolet, Le métier de citoyen dans la Rome républicaine, París, 1979 Gallimard.
J.A. North, “Democratic Politics in Republican Rome”, Past and Present 126 (1990), p. 3-21.
TEMA 4
A. Duplá, “Política y violencia en la reflexión ciceroniana: legalidad, legitimidad, oportunismo”, en M. Campagno, J. Gallego, C. G. García Mac Gaw, eds., El Estado en el Mediterráneo Antiguo. Egipto, Grecia, Roma, Buenos Aires, Miño y Dávila (PEFSCEA 7), 2011, p. 351-370.
P. López Barja, Imperio legítimo. El pensamiento político romano en tiempos de Cicerón, Madrid, Antonio Machado, 2007.
G. Maddox, “The Limits of Neo-Roman Liberty”, History of Political Thought 23.3 (2002), p. 428-431
S. Mas, Pensamiento romano, Valencia, 2006, Tirant lo blanch.
F. Pina Polo, Marco Tulio Cicerón, Madrid, Ariel, 2005
N. Wood, Cicero’s Social and Political Thought, Univ. of California Press, 1988
TEMA 5
A. Bérenger, Le métier de gouverneur dans l'empire romain, París, 2014, De Boccard.
A. D’Ors, Epigrafía jurídica de la España romana, Madrid, 1953.
E. García Fernández, El municipio latino, Madrid, 2001, Anejo de Gerión
J. González, “The lex Irnitana: A New Copy of the Flavian Municipal Law” JRS 76 (1986) 147-243.
R, Hingley, Globalizing Roman Culture. Unity, Diversity and Empire, Abingdon y Nueva York, 2005, Routledge.
P. López Barja, R. Maiz y J.M. Portillo, eds. Imperios. Luz y tinieblas (Sémata n.23, 2011).
D.J. Mattingly, ed. Dialogues in Roman Imperialism: Power, Discourse and Discrepant Experience in the Roman Empire, JRA Supplement 23 Porstmouth, 1997.
J. Sánchez Palencia y J. Mangas, eds. El edicto de El Bierzo. Augusto y el Noroeste de Hispania, Ponferrada, 2001.
A.N. Sherwin-White, The Roman Citizenship, Oxford, 1973 (2ª ed.).
J. Webster y N. Cooper, eds. Roman imperialism. Post-colonial Perspectives, Leicester Archaeological Monographies, 3, Leicester, 1996.
G. Woolf, Becoming Roman. The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul, Cambridge U.P. 1998.
TEMA 6
G. Alföldy, “La manumisión de esclavos y la estructura de la manumisión en el Alto Imperio romano” PLAUV 9 (1973) 99-123.
W.W. Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery, Cambridge, 1908 (reimpr. 1970).
A.M. Duff, Freedmen in the Early Roman Empire, Oxford, 1928.
G. Fabre, Libertus. Recherches sur les rapports patron-affranchi à la fin de la République romain, École française de Roma, 1981.
P. López Barja, Historia de la manumisión en Roma, Madrid, 2008 (Anejos de Gerión).
H. Mouritsen, The Freedman in the Roman World, Cambridge U.P. 2011.
- To know the basic pillars of Western civilization and culture at its source: the individual, the social fact and political philosophy.
- To make exegesis of original texts and modern to establish and defend thesis in public and defend the opposite.
- To work together in a self-organized.
-Theoretical classes: explanation of the content based on classical or modern texts, some of which will be used after students to develop presentations and presented in interactive classes.
-interactive classes: Reading of texts indciated by the profesor at the beginning of term
Continuous assessment final examination. The final exam will result in 40% of the overall assessment. Another 40% will assess individual work on texts
Approximately 120 hours
Se valorará la competencia en el manejo de idiomas que no sean gallego o español
En lo referente al plagio o al uso indebido de tecnologías de la información en los trabajos se aplicarán las normas vigentes en la USC al respecto.
Marco Virgilio Garcia Quintela
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Ancient History
- Phone
- 881812558
- marco.garcia.quintela [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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