War and Peace: Polytheisms in Context (Ordinario)
Prerequisiti
No prerequisites. The course is recommended for each year of training.
Programma
The ordinary course aims to explore the dynamics involving the divine world in the field of war and peace, a socio-political activity of primary importance. Taking war, peace and diplomacy as frameworks for the interaction between humans and gods, we will try to understand how polytheisms and monotheism of the ancient Mediterranean world function, paying attention to the modes of differentiation, collaboration, intersection, spatialization and designation of deities in context. The course will mobilize different types of sources (literary, epigraphic, archaeological, iconographic) and different contexts (Greece, Rome, Near East...) in a comparative perspective. One of the objectives of the course will be to conceive an anthology of documents on the topic of the course.
Obiettivi formativi
The course should be considered as an introduction to the comparative history of ancient religions starting from a theme that allows to examine the main methodological and conceptual issues of the subject. To facilitate the work of students, 10 hours of preparatory course are planned in October. In addition to the history of religions, the course also intends to train in historiography and the critical use of sources. Finally, the course will also be an opportunity to learn how to use some digital humanities tools.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Zainab Bahrani, Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia. New York/Cambridge: Zone Books, 2008.
Anastasia Bakogianni, Valerie M. Hope, War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Thibaut Boulay, Arès dans la cité: les poleis et la guerre dans l’Asie Mineure hellénistique. Studi ellenistici, 28. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014.
Victor Caston, Silke-Maria Weineck, Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Angelos Chaniotis, War in the Hellenistic world : a social and cultural history. Ancient world at war. Oxford: Oxford (Eng.), 2005.
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the Iraq War. Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2007.
Sheila Dillon, Katherine E. Welch, Representations of war in ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bernard Eck, La mort rouge: homicide, guerre et souillure en Grèce ancienne. Collection d'Études anciennes. Série grecque, 145. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012.
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith, Women and War in Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Marco Formisano, Hartmut Böhme, War in Words: Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz. Transformationen der Antike, Bd 19. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
Hélène Ménard, Pierre Sauzeau, Jean François Thomas, La pomme d'Eris. Le conflit et sa représentation dans l'Antiquité. Mondes anciens. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2012.
Pascal Payen, Les revers de la guerre en Grèce ancienne: histoire et historiographie. L'Antiquité au présent. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2012.
Pascal Payen, La guerre dans le monde grec (VIIIe-Ier siècles avant J.-C.). - Paris : Armand Colin, 2018.
Gabriella Pironti, Entre ciel et guerre : figures d'Aphrodite en Grèce ancienne. Kernos. Supplément ; 18. Liège: Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique, 2007.
Kurt A. Raaflaub, War and peace in the ancient world. The ancient world - comparative histories. Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2007.
Jörg Rüpke, David M. B. Richardson, Peace and war in Rome: a religious construction of warfare. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
James Tatum, The mourner's song : war and remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Isabelle Torrance, Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven against Thebes. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.
Jean-Pierre Vernant, Problèmes de la guerre en Grèce ancienne, Paris-La Haye, Mouton & O, 1968.
Theo Vijgen, The cultural parameters of the Graeco-Roman war discourse. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
Moduli
| Modulo | Ore | CFU | Docenti |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modulo 1: Guerra e pace: approccio comparativo ai politeismi in contesto (per ordinari) | 20 | 3 | Corinne Bonnet |
| Supplementary teaching | 12 | 0 | Corinne Bonnet, Giuseppina Marano |
| Modulo 2: Guerra e pace: un'antologia di documenti (per ordinari e PhD) | 20 | 3 | Corinne Bonnet |