The course aims to supply students with the basics and method necessary for acquisition of the skills of analysis and reflection on the tradition concerning the complex doings of a personality who occupied the Athenian political and military stage during the difficult socio-political and economic situation subsequent to the Periclean experience. The fundamental aim is to focus on dynamics, contradictions and reference contexts, also in relation to the general problem of the incidence of individual  attention-seeking in the eventful plot of the history of all times, and to possess adequate communicative resources on the theme in question.

The main phases of the events of Alcibiades’ life are retraced through critical reading of the principal sources, focusing in particular on the reflection, in the antique tradition and in the re-workings of subsequent ages, of a wholly extraordinary incidence of the personality in the Athenian (and Greek) collective imagination in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Students must have taken the Greek History exam during the three year degree course; alternatively, they need to know:

D. MUSTI, Storia greca. Linee di sviluppo dall'età micenea all'età romana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.

Skills: Knowledge of the main dynamics of the political, social and economic history of the classical Greek world and their chronological contexts.

Independence of Judgement: Students must manifest the ability to critically and comparatively analyse the contents of the sources and their genesis.

Communications Skills: In historical and critical framing, the student must demonstrate versatility in supplying clear and exhaustive communication. 

The teaching contributes  to consolidate and broaden the knowledge and philological methodologies acquired over the three years, with view to either proceeding towards a research Doctorate or finding work with publishing houses, public/private research and cultural institutes or cultural and academic foundations.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

At the end of the course, the teaching material prepared by the lecturer (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises) and specific communications from the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Conventional.

Attendance

Attendance is highly recommended.

Course books

- J. de Romilly, Alcibiade. Un avventuriero in una democrazia in crisi, Milano, Garzanti 2010; or W. M. Ellis, Alcibiade, Genova, ECIG 1993;

- E.  Dimauro, Re contro. La rivalità dinastica a Sparta fino al regno di Agide II, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 2008, pp. 113-183;

- E. Dimauro, Timea, in U. Bultrighini-E. Dimauro, Donne che contano nella Storia greca, Lanciano, Carabba 2014, pp. 529-570.

Assessment

Oral exam with final marks.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

No alternative programmes are envisaged for non-attending students; supplementary texts for the latter are specified in the exam programme.

Course books

- J. de Romilly, Alcibiade. Un avventuriero in una democrazia in crisi, Milano, Garzanti 2010; or W. M. Ellis, Alcibiade, Genova, ECIG 1993;

- E.  Dimauro, Re contro. La rivalità dinastica a Sparta fino al regno di Agide II, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso 2008, pp. 113-183;

- E. Dimauro, Timea, in U. Bultrighini-E. Dimauro, Donne che contano nella Storia greca, Lanciano, Carabba 2014, pp. 529-570.

Supplementary text for non-attending students:
P. J. Rhodes, Alcibiades. Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor, Barnsley, Pen&Sword Military 2011.

For both attending and non-attending students, a knowledge of the sources discussed during the course is fundamental and obligatory. They are downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.

Assessment

Oral exam with final marks.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

-For the exam, it is indispensable that all students have in-depth knowledge of the sources discussed during the course.

-The Greek and Latin sources must be read in the original and translated, an element much appreciated when assessments are made. Students without any Greek or Latin will sit the exam with sources translated into Italian. Teaching material supplied during lessons (historiographical sources) is easily found on the University website at the end of lessons, for both attending and non-attending students.

-No alternative programmes are envisaged for non-attending students; supplementary texts for the latter are specified in the exam programme.