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

L-FIL-LET/01 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

PIETRO MARIA MILITELLO


Course Structure

The program includes two 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, and on the relations between the Aegean and Italy, in order to verify the specific problems of the existence of one or more “world systems” in the II millennium b.C.



Detailed Course Content

Background: La civiltà egea tra neolitico e II millennio – Cronologia e geografia – La nascita dei palazzo cretesi – Primi e secondi palazzi – Il tardopalaziale: Knossos – La Creta micenea – L’Elladico Medio – Le tombe a fossa – I Palazzi micenei – Le Cicladi nel Bronzo Medio e Tardo – La fine della società del Bronzo - La produzione ceramica – La produzione suntuaria (sigilli, pittura parietale)



Textbook Information

A The II millennium Aegean (3 ECTS)

- 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? (1 ECTS).

Sherratt, Andrew. 1993. What Would a Bronze-Age World System Look Like? Relations between Temperate Europe and the Mediterranean in Later Prehistory. Journal of European Archaeology 1 (2). p. 1-58

- Sestieri, Anna Maria Bietti. 2014. Sicily in Mediterranean History in the Second Millennium BC. The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Knapp, A. Bernard and Peter van Dommelen, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 74-95. (Abstract, p. 74).

- P. Militello, Incorporating Architecture. LBA Sicily and the Aegean, in , M. Bettelli, M. Del Freo and G. J. van Wijngaarden (eds), Mediterranea Itinera. Studies in Honour of Lucia Vagnetti, Incunabula graeca CVI, Roma, Cnr Edizioni, 2018, pp. 33-50

 

Suggested readings for those interested in Aegean art:

J.-C. Poursat, L’Art égéen, Paris, Edition Picard, I, 2008, II, 2014.




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