PROTOHISTORY OF THE AEGEAN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE II TO THE I MILLENNIUM B.C.

The program includes three modules. In the first one the Aegean of the II millennium will be dealt with, with a special attention paid to the palatial periods, prestige production and epigraphic evidence. In the second one attention is focused on the wider Mediterranean background, in order to verify the specific problems of the existence of one or more “world systems” in the II millennium b.C. The third modulo will provide students with the necessary tools to use the written documents of the 2^nd millennium b.C.

A The II millennium Aegean (3 CFU)

E. Cline (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, Oxford University press 2010, pp. 3-30 (background and definitions), 99-443 (Middle and Late Bronze Age, Art and architecture, Society and culture, Seals and writing, Material crafts).

B The II millennium Aegean and the Mediterranaean: a world system? (2 CFU).

C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (2 million to 500 BC), Thames and Hudson 2013, capitoli 1, 8-9 (pp. 15-80, 345-505).

C Literacy in the Aegean of the II millennium (1 CFU)

Y. Duhoux, M. Davies eds., A Companion to Linear B, Louvain La Neuve 2008, pp. 25-159.

Ovvero

M. Del Freo, M. Perna edd., Documenti in greco miceneo. Introduzione allo studio dei testi in lineare B, Napoli 2015, pp. 6-152.