History
History – Doctoral Degree 2009
Recommended Year of Study: 2
Recommended Semester: 3
ECTS Credits Allocated: 10.00
Roman imperialism in the Middle Republic
Status: optional Recommended Year of Study: 2
Recommended Semester: 3
ECTS Credits Allocated: 10.00
Pre-requisites: no specific requirements
Course objectives: To attempt to define the idea of roman imperialism. Studying roman conquests from the period of the middle of the 2nd century to the epoch of the Gracchi brothers.
Course description: The organizing of the republic as a precondition to war. Rome and Carthage. Rome and the hellenistic monarchies. Rome and alliances with Greek cities. Roman senate aristocracy and questions of expanding borders. A Vassal state or province?
Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to independently and argumentatively form opinions on the character of roman foreign relations during the period of the greatest expansion of the Roman state.
Literature/Reading:
- T. Frank, Roman Imperialism, New York 1914.
- E. Pais, Storia di Roma durante le guerre puniche, I-II, Torino 1935 (drugo izdanje).
- H. Heftner, Der Aufstieg Roms. Vom Pyrrhoskrieg bis zum FAll von Karthago (280-146 v. Chr.) Regensburg 1997.
- W. Ameling, Kartharo. Studien zu Militaer, Staat und Gesellschaft, Muenchen 1993.
- A. Heuss, Der Erste Punische Krieg und das Problem des roemischen Imperialismus. Zur politischen Beurteilung des Krieges, HZ 169(1949) 457-513.
- E. Badian, Notes on Roman policy in Illyria (230-201 B.C.), PBSR 20(1952) 72-93.
- Ed. Meyer, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des zweiten punischen Kriegs: Der Ursprung des Krieges und die Haendel mit Sagunt, Kleine Schriften, II, Halle 1924 (drugo izdanje) 333-368.
- J. Seibert, Forschungen zu Hanibal, Darmstadt 1993.
- K.-H. Schwartze, Der Ausbruch des Zweiten Punischen Krieges - Rechtsfragen und Ueberlieferung, Wiesbaden 1983.
- T. Cornell-B. Rankov-P. Sabin (urednici), The Sedond Punic war. A Reappraisal, London 1996.
- E. Will, Histoire politique du monde hellènistique (323-30 av. J.-C.) I-II, Nancy, 1979-1982 (drugo izdanje).
- R. Bernhardt, Rom und die Staedte des hellenistischen Ostens (3.-1. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.), Muenchen, 1998.
- E.S. Gruen, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, I-II, Berkeley 1984.
- E. Badian, Roemischer Imperialismus in der Spaeten Republik, Stuttgart 1980 (originalno englesko drugo izdanje izašlo je 1968).
- W.V. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, Oxford 1979.
