ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN IN CLASSICAL AGE
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Luigi Maria CALIO'
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course will deal monographically with Dark Age and
Iron Age archaeology in Greece, Asia and the West, in a holistic reading of the
period in the Mediterranean area. The second part of the course will discuss
colonisation in the East and West and the different readings of this.
Based on the Dublin descriptors, the course objectives
are:
1) Knowledge and understanding. To provide students
with knowledge of the cultural development of the Mediterranean between the
Bronze and Iron Ages.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. 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. This purpose will
be achieved through an in-depth examination of some specific aspects with seminar-type
methodologies.
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.
Course Structure
Lectures.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the general lines of the phases of
ancient history and classical archaeology.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course focuses on the
historical artistic and material and urban culture in the Mediterranean between
the 11th century and the 7th century BC. A series of topics will be proposed
during the course in order to cover the discipline in an organic manner: the
end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the development of a political culture between
the 11th and 7th centuries, the emergence of new architectural forms,
navigation in the Iron Age, trade and emporia, material culture, social and
cultural models of the Dark Age.
Textbook Information
For those who have not taken the exam of
Classical Archeology:
J. Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, pp. 490.
Mod.
A (3 CFU)
O Murray, La Grecia delle Origini, Bologna 1996,
pp. 406
Mod.
B (3 CFU)
Musti
D., Le origini deiGreci. Dori e mondo egeo, Roma-Bari 1990, pp. 480 (capitoli
selezionati)
Mod. C (3 CFU)
L.M.
Caliò, Mura Divine, Roma 2021, pp. 290.
