This biannual course is taught on years 2015-2016, 2017-2018, ....
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The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
The evaluation will take place at the January session and will be in a written form.
The students will have a syllabus at their disposal, which includes the documents analysed and the bibliographical references relating to the course.
Through the examination of the literary and epigraphical evidences, this course proposes a diachronic survey of the institutions of Ancient Athens.
The institutions in the age of Demosthenes constitute the first chapter. From this start-point, the other chapters of the first part of this course progressively go back into the History of that city, in order to study the political and religious institutions of the Attic demes (chap. 2), the re-elaboration of the Athenian "constitution" at the end of the Peloponnesian War (chap.3), and the problems that still encumber our understanding of the Cleisthenic reforms (chap.4).
The second part is devoted to the archaic period of Athens. We focus then on the Peisistratid's tyranny (chap.1), the role played by the legislators (Solon and Dracon) in the formation of that polis (chap.2), and the problems engendered by the synoecism of Attica that is supposed to have occurred under the reign of Theseus (chap.3).
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