CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

The course will be conducted through lectures or equivalent activities, which may be accompanied by any equivalent exercises or assisted activities. Prerequisites are the knowledge of the general lines of the phases of ancient history and classical archeology.

The course focuses on the aspect of the artistic and material historical culture of the classical world. During the course a series of topics will be proposed in chronological order to cover the discipline in an organic manner: the birth of Greek civilization and archaism; The development of the poleis and the classical period; The fourth century and the birth of Hellenism; The new urban system between IV and III century BC; Hellenism in the Mediterranean; The Hellenistic east; Rome and Hellenistic Italy; Honeying and romanization of the Mediterranean; Augustus and the Empire; Giulio-Claudius and Flavi; The empire of the 2nd century; Empire up to Diocletian; Constantine; The end of antiquity.

E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia Greca, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2011, p. 514

M. Papini, Arte romana, Mondadori, Milano 2016, pp. 568

‪T. Hölsher, Il Linguaggio dell’arte romana, Torino 2002, pp. 127

‪T. Hölsher, Il mondo dell’arte greca, Torino 2002, pp. 170

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