ROMAN HISTORY
cod. 1000658

Academic year 2013/14
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Storia romana (L-ANT/03)
Field
Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

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Prerequisites

a basic knowledge of Roman History

Course unit content

Rome, the greatest megalopolis of antiquity
Lesons will deal on economy and urbanism between late republic an later empire: demography, food supply, modern historiography.

Full programme

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Bibliography

M. Finley, L'economia degli antichi e dei moderni, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1977;

E. Lo Cascio (a cura di), Roma imperiale, una metropoli antica, Carocci, Roma, 2000; P. Garnsey, Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman World, Cambridge Universityu Press, Cambridge, 1988..

Teaching methods

the course is a seminar; students will write written papers.

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exams and papers

Other information

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