Through classroom lectures and slide shows, the course
aims to give basic knowledge about the methodologies used in topographic
research on ancient world, with particular reference to the classical age, in
its articulations including the study and documentation of the anthropic
organization of the territory, of the urban and rural settlements and
infrastructure, even if submerged.
The course also aims to train the basic skills for the
recognition of building materials, the interpretation of construction processes
and architectural systems of antiquity (also through the comparison between the
archaeological remains and the evidence of the sources, especially Vitruvius),
as well as for the documentation, through direct archaeological surveys, tools
and cartographic survey systems, photographic and photogrammetric means, of
monuments and archaeological excavations.
The course is also aimed at develop awareness in the
approach to the archaeological potentiality of the territories and subjective
ability to interpret monuments, through visual and planimetric comparison and
critical contextualization. Notes on the epistemology of ancient topographical
science exemplify the negativity of the uncritical reiteration of simplistic or
erroneous clichés.
The comparative examination of specialist literature
and archaeological topographical evidence also has the development of synthesis
capacity among its cross-cutting effects. The communication exempla, literary
and enunciated by the teacher, are aimed at the formation of specific
expository skills: clarity of content, appropriate language, ethics of
communication in its various forms.
The teacher acts so that the student forms his own map
of the information, both imparted during the course and contained in the
literature, such as to constitute the fundamental methodological grid in which
to organically place the data with which he will come into contact in the
university career and then in the actual application of the method.
J.P. Adam, L'arte di
costruire presso i Romani. Materiali e tecniche, (trad. it.) Milano
19902: pp. 23-359 (337).
F.
Castagnoli, Le ricerche sui resti della centuriazione, Roma 1958: pp. 7-38
(32).
F.
Castagnoli, Roma antica. Profilo urbanistico, Roma
1978 (138).
G.
Ceraudo, M.Guaitoli, F. Piccarreta, in (a cura di) M. Guaitoli, Lo sguardo di Icaro. Le collezioni dell’Aerofotoeca Nazionale per la
conoscenza del territorio, Roma 2003: pp. 67-102 (36).
F. Coarelli, Roma, Guide Archeologiche
Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008: pp. 4-23 (Mura);
122-155 (Fori imperiali).
E. Felici, Archeologia subacquea. Metodi, tecniche e strumenti, Roma
2002: pp. 231-276.
E. Felici, Nos flumina arcemus, derigimus, avertimus. Canali, lagune, spiagge e porti nel Mediterraneo antico,
Bari 2016: pp. 109-134 (Canali e porti)
(26).
E. Felici, La topografia antica
litoranea. Argomenti e metodi, in (a cura di) G. Buscemi Felici, E.
Felici, L. Lanteri, Produzioni
antiche sulla costa sud orientale della Sicilia. Saggi di topografia antica
litoranea, Bari 2020: pp. 13-33.
P.A. Gianfrotta,
Il contributo della ricerca subacquea agli studi di
topografia antica in Italia, in La forma della città e del
territorio, (S. Maria Capua vetere 1998) Roma 1999: pp. 75-90 (16).
P.A. Gianfrotta, G.
Scardozzi, Strutture costiere e sommerse, in (a cura di) M. Guaitoli, Lo sguardo
di Icaro. Le collezioni dell’Aerofotoeca Nazionale per la conoscenza del
territorio, Roma 2003: pp. 479-492 (14).
C.F. Giuliani, Archeologia.
Documentazione grafica, Roma 1976 (out of print), pp. 11-97 (87).
M. Guaitoli, Appendice III. Nota sulla
metodologia della raccolta, dell’elaborazione e della presentazione dei dati,
in P. Tartara, Torrimpietra (IGM 149 INO), Forma Italiae 39, Firenze 1999, pp. 357-365 (9).
D. Mertens, E. Greco, Urbanistica
della Magna Grecia, in (a cura di) G. Pugliese Carratelli, (cat. d.
mostra) I Greci in Occidente,
Milano 1996: pp. 243-262 (20).
L.
Quilici, S. Quilici Gigli, Introduzione alla
topografia antica, Bologna 2004: pp. 23-152 (130).
M. Wegner, Ordini architettonici, in Enciclopedia
dell'Arte Antica V, pp. 712-725.
Vitruvio, De architectura, ed. a cura di P. Gros, Torino 1997 (passi scelti).
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.