ARCHAEOLOGY OF MAGNA GRAECIA AND SICILY

The course aims to outline the historical development of art and architecture of the Western Greeks civilizations through the analysis of archaeological, historical and artistic phenomena in Great Greece and Sicily, from the Archaic Period to the Romanization. The goal is to offer a comprehensive understanding of cultural processes that led to the creation of artistic and craft phenomena. In the second analysis, the course also aims at a general overview of the practice of archaeological research in Greek archaeology in the West particularly regarding architectural and urban aspects. Ultimate objective is to read the Western phenomenon within a Mediterranean framework.

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.

M. Torelli, Dei e Artigiani. Archeologia delle colonie greche d’Occidente, Roma-Bari 2011, pp. 236.

‪F.G. La Torre, Sicilia e Magna Grecia: archeologia della colonizzazione greca d’Occidente, Roma-Bari 2011, pp. 390.

E.M. De Juliis, ‪Magna Grecia: l’Italia meridionale dalle origini leggendarie alla conquista romana, Bari 1996, pp. 211.