The Romans and their historiography; historical documentation and reconstruction; epigraphic documents; new directions in Archaeological research. italic origins, the Etruscans; the origins of Rome; the conquest of Italy; expansio to the Mediterranean; the age of revolution. Augustus and the imperial solution; the Flavian and Antonine dynasties; the military empire: the Severans and the anarchy of the III century. The decline and recovery of the Empire; the trnasformation of the ancient world. The Roman Provinces. Institutional aspects of Roman history.
Roman history in North Africa (202 B.C. - 442 A.D.)