CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

The course aims to outline the historical development of art and architecture in the Mediterranean Greek and Roman civilization from the end of the early history up to the last stages of the Roman Empire. The goal is to offer a comprehensive understanding of cultural processes that led to the creation of various art and craft phenomena during the Greek-Roman Period. Also aim of the course is to read some cultural phenomena such as long-term processes that run through all antiquity, in order to understand the guidelines for the formation of a cultural layered system that remains as a reference to the later periods.

The reading of the historical artistic phenomenon and its cultural processes is also seen in the light of archaeological research practices involving art history, architectural history, material culture, epigraphy, written sources, anthropological research, in a multidisciplinary approach that forms the core of the discipline.

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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