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: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To get, on the part of the student, a good knowledge of the different ways of economic, social and political organization that knew the Roman society, with special reference to its chronological and territorial evolution, the Roman legacy, and current research topics on Ancient Rome.
1.Introduction
2.Origins of Rome. Monarchy.
3.The formation of the Roman Republic. Patrician-Plebeian state.
The external situation: annexation of Italy and its organization.
Political system: institutions and magistrates. Economic transformations. Society: Nobilitas, peasants, freedmen and slaves.
4.The spreading of Rome in the Mediterranean.
5.The crisis of the Republic.
The agrarian problem and the attempts for solution: The Gracchi. New attempts for reformation: Marius, A. Saturnino. The social war and its results. The “restoration” by Sulla. The first Triumvirate. Caesar: reformations and political system. The second Triumvirate. The triumph of Octavian.
6.Augustus and the founding of the Principality.
Nature, origin and basis of the Princeps’ powers. The new political and constitutional order. The reformations by Augustus: the provincial organization, the financial reformation and the army. The succession problem.
7. High Empire: dinasties.
Julio-Claudian dynasty, Flavian dynasty, Antonine dynasty, Severan dynasty.
8. High Empire: social and economic structure
9. The Crisis of the Third Century (235-284).
10. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
11. The Christian Empire. From Constantine to Theodosius
12. The Fall of Rome and the End of the Roman Empire in the west
13. Daily Life.
Texts: Sources. Atlas:
- F. Beltrán y F. Marco Simón, Atlas de Historia antigua, Zaragoza, 1987, Pórtico.
- M. Crawford et alii, Fuentes para el estudio de la Historia antigua, Madrid, 1986, Taurus.
- Luis García Moreno et alii, Historia del mundo clásico a través de sus textos. II Roma, Madrid, 1999, Alianza.
- Historia de la literatura, vol. I El mundo antiguo, Madrid, 1988, Akal.
- Pedro López Barja, Epigrafía latina, Santiago, 1993, Tórculo.
General Bibliography:
-M. Beard, SPQR: Una historia de la antigua Roma, Barcelona, 2016.
-M. Crawford, La república romana, Madrid, 1981.
-J. Heurgon, Roma y el Mediterráneo occidental hasta las guerras púnicas, Barcelona, 1971.
-L. Jerphgnon, Historia de la Roma antigua, Barcelona, 2007.
-Pedro López Barja y Francisco Javier Lomas Salmonte, Historia de Roma, Madrid, 2004, Akal.
-J. Mangas, Historia universal, volumen I B, Edad Antigua. Roma, Barcelona, 1999. Vicens Vives.
Nueva Clío.
-C. Nicolet, Roma y la conquista del mundo mediterráneo, Barcelona, 1984 2 vols.
Taurus.
-J. M. Roldán, Historia de Roma, Universidad de Salamanca, 1995.
-A. M. Suárez Piñeiro. Roma antigua. Historia de un imperio global, Madrid, Akal, 2019.
-C. Wells, El Imperio romano, Madrid, 1986.
Monographies:
- G. Alföldy, Historia social de Roma, Madrid, 1987, Alianza.
- Badian, E. (1958): Foreign Clientelae (264-70 B.C.), Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- M. Beard, El triunfo romano, Barcelona, 2009, Crítica.
- T.J. Cornell, Los orígenes de Roma, Madrid, 1999, Crítica.
- M.I. Finley, La economía de la Antigüedad, Madrid, 1986 (2ª ed.) FCE.
- P. Garnsey y R. R. Saller, El Imperio romano. Economía, sociedad, cultura, Barcelona, 1990 Crítica.
- W.Harris, Guerra e imperialismo en la República romana, Madrid, 1989 Siglo XXI.
- P. Heather, La caída del imperio romano, Barcelona, 2005, Crítica.
- Humbert, M. (1978): Municipium et civitas sine suffragio. L'organisation de la conquête jusqu'à la guerre sociale, Roma, Publications de l'École française de Rome.
- A.H.M. Jones, Augusto, Buenos Aires, 1970 EUDEBA.
- P. López Barja de Quiroga, Imperio legítimo. El pensamiento político romano en tiempos de Cicerón, Madrid, 2007, Antonio Machado libros.
- S. Mas, Pensamiento romano, Valencia, 2006, Tirant lo blanch.
- M.Rostovtzeff, Historia social y económica del Imperio romano, Madrid,1981. Espasa-Calpe.
- Sherwin-White, A. N. (1973): The Roman Citizenship, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- R.Syme, La revolución romana, Madrid, 1989, Taurus.
- P. Veyne, La sociedad romana, Madrid, 1991. Mondadori.
- P. Zanker, Augusto y el poder de las imágenes, Madrid, 1992, Alianza Forma.
- To be able to find out Information using the Specialized Bibliography, but also the New Technologies.
- To be able to elaborate a Work with Scientific Rigor in the Contents and in the Written Expression, avoiding the Plagiarism, giving the Bibliography and using Footnotes correctly.
- To be able to show orally the Fundamental Contents of this Work.
- To develop the Critic Capacity.
Expositive Teaching. Short presentations in the class of the basic contents of the themes enumerated in the syllabus, with help of presentations in power-point and other audiovisual means.
Interactive Teaching. It is organized in different types of activities which purpose is to complete the contents of the theoretical units: texts and maps comments, compulsory readings, etc.
- A Final Exam: 40% of the Mark. It will measure the Knowledge of the Theoretical Classes and Practices.
- Practices (sources, maps, etc.): 20%
- Work Exposition: 20%
- Online course and participation (classroom and field trip): 10%
Extraordinary Evaluation: maintaining the respective percentages, unsurpassed part will be repeated, and the work, if unmade, will be delivered.
Official exemption of class attendance: a final exam (100% of the Mark).
Presence Work
Activities in entire Group (Theoretical Exposition): 30 Hours.
Activities in reduced Group (Practices): 15 Hours.
Tutorials in much reduced Group, personalized Tutorials: 2 Hours.
Assessment: 3 Hours.
Total: 50 Hours.
Personal Work:
Study: 40 Hours.
Work Elaboration: 30 Hours.
Preparation of Activities in reduced Group: 30 Hours
Total: 100 Hours.
Total: 150 Hours.
- The Regular Attendance to Class is essential.
- To check that the Presented Works are Original. In Case of Plagiarism, the Entire Subject, not only the Work will be failed.
Se velará de modo particular para comprobar que los trabajos presentados son originales. En caso de incurrirse en plagio, la asignatura entera, no sólo el trabajo en cuestión, estará suspensa.
Pedro Manuel Lopez Barja De Quiroga
- Department
- History
- Area
- Ancient History
- Phone
- 881812559
- pedro.barjadequiroga [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Hector Paleo Paz
- Department
- History
- Area
- Ancient History
- hector.paleo.paz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Ana Maria Suarez Piñeiro
- Department
- History
- Area
- Ancient History
- Phone
- 881812567
- ana.suarez.pineiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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