ARCHEOLOGIA DEL MEDITERRANEO IN ETA' CLASSICA

The course will address in a monographic way the development of the urban system in the West between Hellenism and Romanization. This is a monographic topic which presupposes the knowledge of Greek and Roman archeology and its lines of development. The course intends to investigate the transformations in material and urban culture during the emergence of the Roman state in connection with the different citizens, Hellenistic, Roman, Italic, Siceliot. The duration of the course is to understand the social, political and cultural structures at the base of the Roman city of the Augustan age.

Lectures.

The course focuses on the aspect of historical, artistic and material and urban culture in Italy between the 4th and the 1st century BC. A series of topics will be proposed during the course to cover the discipline in an organic way: urban culture in Italy in the 4th century; the development of urban systems in the Greek regions of the west; material culture during the fourth century and the first phase of Hellenism; the Roman colonial system and the roads of penetrating the Romanization; the material culture of the Hellenistic age: pottery and sculpture; republican architectural forms between East and West; Rome and Hellenistic Italy; the development of brick architecture; Hellenization and Romanization of the Mediterranean; Augustus and the empire in the cities of Italy and Sicily.

For those who have not taken the exam of Classical Archeology:

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

For those who have already taken the exam:

J. De Rose Evans (ed.) A Companion to the Archeology of the Roman Republic, Oxford 2013

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