Face-to-face , first and second term, 30 hours of theory.

First term
Tuesday from 15:45 to 17:45 at Ommegang Om421
Second term
Wednesday from 13:30 to 15:30 at Ommegang Om421

French.

The seminar aims at introducing the student to the writing of a scientific paper. Within the framework of a theme defined by the teacher and relating to the Ancient World, the students will carry on an assisted research and will familiarize themselves with all the steps of a scientific-historical approach (heuristic, composition of a bibliography, analysis of the modern historiography, manipulation of the reference tools, scientific argumentation).

For the Bachelor in History :

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The theme chosen for the academic year 2017-2018 is about the social struggles between the patricians and plebeians that shook up the fifth- and fourth-century BC Rome, a set of disorders known under the name of "struggle of the orders". Insofar as the literary sources are later of about four centuries than the told events and as they were the object of numerous narrative manipulations, we shall lead together the investigation to try to disentangle the truth from the lies. The students will be led to deepen a particular aspect in a personal work.

Program of supervised individual readings during the first term. In the second term, there will be sessions of assisted research, with alternation of teacher's presentations, manipulation of reference tools (composition of a bibliography, comparison of the different editions of texts or inscriptions, treatment of sources, etc.) and of discussions on the topic of the seminar (historical criticism, proposal of hypotheses, etc.).

Assessment of the participation throughout the seminar, on the basis of reading reports and of the achievement of intermediate tasks. A final work, of about ten pages for the students in Bloc 2, must be written out.

The composition of a bibliography is part of the student's work.
Basic bibliography:
- Bourdin (S.), Les peuples de l'Italie préromaine, Rome, 2012.
- Broughton (T.R.S.), The magistrates of the Roman Republic (tome 1), New York, 1951.
- Cornell (T.), The beginnings of Rome, Londres-New York, 1995.
- Farney (G.), Ethnic identity and aristocratic competition in Republican Rome, Cambridge-New York, 2007.
- Ferenczy (E.), From the patrician state to the patricio-plebeian state, Budapest, 1976.
- Forsythe (G.), A critical history of early Rome, Berkeley, 2005.
- Hermon (E.), Habiter et partager les terres avant les Gracques, Rome, 2001.
- Heurgon (J.), Rome et la méditerranée occidentale jusqu'aux guerres puniques, Paris, 1969.
- Howarth (R.S.), The origins of Roman citizenship, Lewiston, 2006.
- Les origines de la République romaine, Genève-Vandoeuvres, 1967 (Fondation Hardt).
- Mineo (B.), Tite-Live et l'histoire de Rome, Paris, 2006.
- Mitchell (R.E.), Patricians and Plebeians: the Origin of the Roman State, Ithaca, 1990.Raaflaub (K.), Social struggles in archaic Rome, Berkeley, 1986 (2e éd. 2005).
- Richard (J.-C.), Les origines de la plèbe romaine, Paris, 1978.

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