Classic Archaeology

The course aims to outline the historical development of artistic and architectural civilization in the Greek-Roman Mediterranean from the end of protohistory to the last stages of the Roman Empire.

Based on the Dublin descriptors the objectives of the course are:

1) Knowledge and understanding. Provide students with knowledge of the archaeology of the Mediterranean in the classical age, through the analysis of its most important material phenomena. The goal is to offer an overall knowledge of the cultural processes that led to the creation of the various artistic and craft phenomena over the span of over a millennium of history. Furthermore, the purpose of the course is to read some cultural phenomena as long-lasting processes that cross the whole of antiquity, this in order to understand the guidelines for the formation of a stratified cultural system that is also transmitted to subsequent eras.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. To make the student able to consciously undertake research in the field of classical archaeology, through the acquisition of adequate tools and methodologies, both in the archaeological, epigraphic and bibliographic fields. The reading of the historical-artistic phenomenon and its cultural processes is seen in the light of the practices of archaeological research that affect the history of art, the history of architecture, material culture, epigraphy, written sources, anthropological research, in a multidisciplinary approach that forms the core of the discipline.

3) Autonomy of judgment. Develop in students a critical approach to texts with systematic comparisons between description of monuments and analysis of the same in situ.

4) Communication skills. Provide students with specialized vocabulary to enable them to communicate adequately to the scientific community.

5) Learning skills. Develop autonomy in the ability to identify the most representative scientific texts and understand them adequately.