Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities" and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.
• Practical lectures.
• Individual work.
• Personal study.
• Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

The course will address the following topics:

Topic 1. The crisis of the Greek polis.

Topic 2. Greece in the historical juncture: hegemony, Persia and Macedonia. Rhetorical history.

Topic 3. Hellenistic monarchy: the historians of Alexander.

Topic 4. Greece and Rome: Polybian view of the history.

Topic 5. Greek identity and empire: geography and history in Strabo.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

Posidonio de Apamea

Clarke, Katherine, Between Geography and History: Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world,  Oxford & New York: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Vimercati, Emmanuele, Testimonianze e frammenti. Posidonio (Introduzione, traduzione, commentario e apparati), Milano: Bompiani, 2004.

Estrabón de Amasia

Dueck, Daniela, Strabo of Amasia: a Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome, London & New York: Routlege, 2000.

Radt, Stefan, Strabons Geographika. Band 1-10, Text Übersetzung und Kommentar, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002.

Bibliografía general y complementaria

Caballero López, José Antonio, Inicios y desarrollo de la historiografía griega: mito, política y propaganda, Madrid: Síntesis, 2006.

Clarke, Katherine, Between geography and history: Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world,  Oxford & New York: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Duff, Timothy E., The Greek and Roman historians, London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003.

Hammond, N.G.L., Sources for Alexander the Great: an Analysis of Plutarch's Life and Arrian's Anabasis Alexandrou, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Lanzillotta, Eugenio – Costa, Virgilio – Ottone, Gabriella (eds.), Tradizione e trasmissione degli storici greci frammentari in ricordo di Silvio Accame (Atti del II workshop internazionale: Roma, 16-18 febbraio 2006), Tivoli (Roma): Tored, 2009.

Lens, J. (ed.), Estudios sobre Diodoro de Sicilia, Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1994.

Meister, Klaus, La storiografia greca: dalle origini alla fine dell' Ellenismo, Bari: Laterza, 1992.

Momigliano, Arnaldo, La historiografía griega, Barcelona: Crítica, D.L., 1984.

Sacks, Kenneth S., Diodorus Siculus and the first century, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Verdin, H. – Schepens, G. – de Keyser, E. (eds.), Purposes of history: studies in Greek historiography from the 4th to the 2nd centuries B.C. (Proceedings of the international colloquium, Leuven, 24-26 May 1988), Leuven, 1990.

The Cambridge Ancient History, vols. 6, 7.1-2 y 8, -1994.