ARCHAEOLOGY AND GREEK AND ROMANY HISTORY OF ART

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.

The course focuses on the aspect of artistic and craft culture of the Greek populations in Great Greece and Sicily. It will be offered during the course a range of arguments chronologically ordered to cover in a systematic way the discipline: the early stages of Western Greek colonization; ways and models of colonial practice; the development of poleis in Italy and Sicily; politic, society and material culture during the sixth and the fifth centuries; sanctuaries and places of worship during archaic and classical age; the fourth century in Great Greece and Sicily; Hellenism in the West; processes of Romanization of Great Greece and Sicily. The course will focus on basic content for those who have never faced the study of the discipline and will be based on the basic manual, while the more purely historical topics for the students who have already taken the exam will be dealt with. The art of provinces will also be analyzed as a basis for building a European artistic identity.

J. Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, pp. 490

S.E. Alcock, R. Osborne, Classical Archaeology, London 2012, pp. 502.

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