History, Historiography and Philosophy in the Classical World

The course aims to present and explain the connections between philosophy, history and historiography in the Greek-Latin world, especially on the basis of the following three guidelines:
1) stressing the historical aspect of research in ancient philosophy, with particular attention to the methodological problems
2) address and comment philosophical texts focusing on problems of a historical nature, or developing their arguments on the basis of historical/historiographic considerations
3) discuss and comment texts (or theories), both by historians and philosophers, which present theses or problems of philosophy of history.

1) Stimulating the ability to analyze and understand ancient philosophical texts taking into account the historical conditioning that characterizes them, and therefore avoiding inappropriate abstract evaluations
2) stimulating the ability to grasp the links between history, historiography and philosophy in ancient philosopher texts
3) stimulating the ability to read the works of ancient historians, both Latin and Greek, in the light of the principles of philosophy of history that characterize them, or from which they are in some way inspired
4) promoting, from a more general point of view, an interdisciplinary approach to the historical and philosophical texts produced in the ancient world, in which the modern rigid divisions were not yet present.