Roman Culture

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012874
Subject Area
Classical Culture
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical.

Rarely through lectures: student participation and discussion of the materials and texts read in class.

Presentation in class and review of individual and group work, supplemented with bibliographic research,, documentation and iconography.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand the specifics of Roman culture from its origins to the Principality.

- Understand the capacity Romans had for assimilation without losing a sense of their identity.

- Identify national virtues using texts depicting the origins of Rome and the formation of the Republic;

- Discuss the mechanisms of the acculturation in its various forms, phases, means and domains.

- Classify the periods covering the building of the Roman Empire and its contacts with other people and how they were integrated and the internal consequences

- Discuss the issue of the crisis of values in the late-Republican period and the attempts to resolve it;

- Perform a critical analysis the culture of the Augustan era in its constraints, literary and artistic expressions, and ideological traits.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Historical Introduction: sources, legends and ideology in Roman history; origins of the Empire; consequences of expansion. Hellenization: concepts of acculturation, pseudomorphosis, synchrony and diachrony, philhellenism (Century of the Scipios) and anti-Hellenism (Cato the Censor). Domains of Hellenization by the II century BC: religion; law; Latin literature; theater and leisure; philosophy. Late-Republican and Augustan culture: the poem of Lucretius; Catullus and Alexanderism; Cicero and the plan of creating a Latin philosophy: originality; value of Letters and antinomy weapon/toga; oratory; political theory; moral practice.  The Age of Augustus: the Augustan society; literary circles and patronage; the Res Gestae and the figure of Augustus; the great cultural synthesis of the work of Virgilian: Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid (structure, key figures, religion, Canto VI and their philosophical, moral and political views; Canto VIII and its meaning).  Roman art: general characteristics.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlota Maria Lopes de Miranda Urbano

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Research work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 20.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

Bibliography

J.-M. ANDRÉ, La philosophie à Rome. Paris, 1975

J. BOARDMAN – J. GRIFFIN – O. MURRAY, eds. The Roman World, Oxford, 1986

P. BRADLEY, Ancient Rome. Using Evidence. Rydelmere, 1997

T. J. CORNELL, The Beginnings of Rome. London, 1995

M. Le GLAY – J.-L. VOISIN – Y. Le BOHEC, Histoire Romaine. Paris, 1991

P. GRIMAL, Le siècle des Scipions. Rome et l'hellénisme au temps des Guerres Puniques. Paris, 1975

J.-P. MARTIN et alii, Histoire romaine. Paris, 2010

J. D. MINYARD, Lucretius and the Late Republic. Leiden, 1985

F. OLIVEIRA, Cícero: Tratado da República. Introd., trad. e notas. Lisboa, 2008

F. OLIVEIRA, "Sociedade e cultura na época augustana", in M. C. S. Pimentel — N. S. Rodrigues, coords, Sociedade, poder e cultura no tempo de Ovídio. Lisboa 2010 11-36

Y. PERRIN – Th. BAUZOU, De la cité à l’Empire: histoire de Rome. Paris, 1997

M. H. R. PEREIRA, Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica. II. Cultura Romana. Lisboa, 2013

M. H. R. PEREIRA, Romana. Antologia da Cultura Latina. Lisboa, 2010