Schema del corso
1) What is Ancient History? An Introduction to Thucydides and Polybius
2) Thucydides and Polybius on the Causes of War (part I)
3) Thucydides and Polybius on the Causes of War (part II)
4) The Mytilenean Debate, the Melian Dialogue, and Tyche in Polybius
5) Revolution at Corcyra and Polybius’s Mercenary War
6) Thucydides and Polybius on the Regime
Bibliografia
Polibio, Storie, 8 voll., Milano, BUR, 2001-2006;*
Polybius, The Histories, Cambridge (Mass.)-London, Harvard University Press, 2010-2012
Polybius, The histories, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011;
Tucidide, La guerra del Peloponneso, Torino, Einaudi-Gallimard, 1996;*
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009;
Thucydides; History of the Peloponnesian War, Cambridge (Mass.)-London, Harvard University Press, 2015;
S.N. Jaffe, Thucydides on the Outbreak of War. Character and Contest, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017;
S.N. Jaffe, The Regime (politeia) in Thucydides, in The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, a cura di R. Balot, S. Forsdyke e E. Foster, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 391-408;
S.N. Jaffe, The Risks and Rewards of Thucydides’ History, in «War on the Rock. Texas National Security Review», online, July 6th, 2017; https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/the-risks-and-rewards-of-thucydides-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/
I. Rehmann, Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age, in , in «War on the Rock. Texas National Security Review», online, March 29th, 2019; https://warontherocks.com/2019/03/polybius-applied-history-and-grand-strategy-in-an-interstitial-age/