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.

Lectures.

The course focuses on the aspect of historical, artistic and material culture of the classical world. A series of topics in chronological order will be proposed during the course to write the discipline in an organic way: the birth of Greek civilization and archaism; the development of the poleis and the classical period; the 4th century and the birth of Hellenism; the new urban system between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC; Hellenism in the Mediterranean; the Hellenistic East; Rome and Hellenistic Italy; Hellenization and Romanization of the Mediterranean; Augustus and the empire; Giulio-Claudi and Flavi; the empire of the 2nd century; the empire up to Diocletian; Constantine; the end of antiquity.

- E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia Greca, Milano 2020, pp. 546

- M. Papini, Arte romana, Milano 2016, pp. 568