Roman Culture

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teachers will make the oral and visual (in the case of the non-written sources) presentation of the themes. The students’ participation in the debate is stimulated by the reading, in Portuguese translation, of the ancient Greek and Latin written sources. Students will be encouraged to comment on sources, discuss theoretical perspectives, view iconography critically.

Learning Outcomes

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

- 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

1. Historical introduction: sources, legends and ideology in the history of Rome;

2. From the origins to the Empire;

3. The Roman expansion: consequences and Roman identity;

4. The Hellenization: religion; law; Latin literature; theater and leisure; philosophy;

5. The late republican and Augustan culture: authors and values;

6. The Century of Augustus: the society and literature;

7. Literary circles and patronage;

8. The Roman art: general characteristics.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Luís Lopes Brandão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 20.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

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

J. L. BRANDÃO / F. OLIVEIRa, História da Roma Antiga I. Das origens à morte de César. Coimbra 2015.

J. L. BRANDÃO / OLIVEIRA, F.História da Roma Antiga II.Império e romanidade hispânica. Coimbra 2020.

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

M. Le GLAY et al., Histoire Romaine. Paris, 1991

P. GRIMAL, Le siècle des Scipions. 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 C. Pimentel — N.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