ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART OF THE ANCIENT ERA

Based on the Dublin Descriptors, the objectives of the course are:

1) Knowledge and understanding. To provide students with knowledge of the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean through a comparative analysis of the most important cultural phenomena. The objective is to offer an overall understanding of the processes that led to the creation of various artistic and artisanal phenomena over more than a millennium of history. Furthermore, the aim of the course is to interpret certain cultural events as long-term processes that, in a transversal way, run through the entirety of antiquity, with the aim of understanding the guidelines behind the formation of a stratified cultural system that is transmitted even to later periods.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding. To enable students to consciously undertake research in the fields of archaeology and ancient art history, through the acquisition of appropriate tools and methodologies, whether archaeological, epigraphic, bibliographic, or related to tourism. The interpretation of historical-artistic phenomena and their cultural processes is seen in light of archaeological research practices, which involve art history, architectural history, material culture, epigraphy, written sources, and anthropological research, in a multidisciplinary approach that constitutes the core of the discipline.

3) Making judgements. To develop in students a critical approach to texts, with systematic comparisons between the description of monuments and their analysis in situ.

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

5) Learning skills. To develop autonomy in the ability to identify the most representative scientific texts and understand them appropriately.

The course focuses on aspects of the artistic and material culture of the ancient world, observed in a diachronic manner and through the study of the most important elements of the ancient world.

It will, in broad terms, be structured as follows: cultural heritage in Sicily; ancient civilizations; Sicily in antiquity; archaeology as an element of cohesion between past and present; the birth of Greek civilization and the Archaic period; the development of the poleis and the Classical period; the fourth century and the birth of Hellenism; Hellenism in the Mediterranean; Hellenism in East Asia; Rome and Hellenistic Italy; the Romanization of the Mediterranean; Augustus and the Empire; the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians; the Empire of the second century; Diocletian; Constantine; the end of Antiquity; geography of antiquity; from archaeology to excavation; outcomes of ancient art; epigraphy, numismatics and material culture from archaeological excavation to the laboratory; projects for the enhancement of archaeological areas; tourist-archaeological itineraries.

E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia Greca, Milan 2020, pp. 510 with illustrations
M. Papini, Arte romana, Milan 2016, pp. 568 with illustrations
The number of pages includes the rich iconographic repertoire.

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