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Classical Archaeology (2016/2017)
Teaching code
4S003217
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-ANT/07 - CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Period
Sem. IIA, Sem. IIB
Learning outcomes
The course will give a deep specialist knowledge of different kind of ancient human settlement in its material, social and cultural context and in a historical, archaeological and technical perspective, in order to prepare students to scientific research and understanding, both in theoretical models and in the practice of field activities.
Program
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of ancient history and classical archaeology, also with regard to geography, architecture and art.
Course programme
Starting from the presuppositions of pre-protohistoric age, the course will offer an extensive overview of historical settlement in classical antiquity from the origin of the urban civilization in Greco-Roman world to the end of the Roman Empire.
The archaeological, topographical, architectural and historical evidence will be combined to reconstruct the feature and the chronological development of human settlement in its geographical, structural and cultural context, with particular interest in some specific subjects:
- habitation choices and patterns of ancient populations in connection with natural landscape, demography and communication routes;
- structure, placing and distribution of communities in urban and rural environment;
- principles and application of town and regional planning;
- layout of infrastructural territorial systems;
- main architectural typologies and forms of public and domestic buildings and monuments;
- cultural, social and economic components and context of settlements;
- building materials and technologies.
A special attention is given to observation and interpretation of documentary evidence usually offered by archaeological excavations.
Didactic methods
Lectures and seminars.
Reference texts
Lecture notes
General bibliography:
Greek age
- A. GIULIANO, Urbanistica delle città greche, Milano, Saggiatore 1966
- R. MARTIN, Architettura Greca, Milano, Electa 1980
- E. GRECO, M. TORELLI, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il mondo greco, Roma-Bari, 1983
- H. LAUTER, L'architettura dell'Ellenismo, Milano 1986
- In: I Greci in Occidente (Cat. Mostra a c. di G. PUGLIESE CARRATELLI), Milano, Bompiani 1996: E. GRECO, pp. 233-242; D. MERTENS, E. GRECO, pp. 243-262; A. DI VITA, pp. 263-308; D. MERTENS, pp. 315-346
- P. MORACHIELLO, La città greca, Roma–Bari 2003
- D. MERTENS, Città e monumenti dei Greci d'Occidente, Roma, Erma di Bretschneider 2006
- E. LIPPOLIS, M. LIVADIOTTI, G. ROCCO, Architettura greca: storia e monumenti del mondo della polis dalle origini al V secolo, Milano 2007
Etruscan age
- Santuari di Etruria (Cat. Mostra a c. di G. COLONNA), Milano 1985
- M. TORELLI, A.M. MORETTI SGUBINI (a cura di), Etruschi. Le antiche metropoli del Lazio, Milano 2008
Roman age
- J.B. WARD-PERKINS, Architettura Romana, Milano 1974
- P. SOMMELLA, Italia antica. Urbanistica romana, Roma 1988
- A. ZACCARIA RUGGIU, Spazio privato e spazio pubblico nella città romana, Roma, École française de Rome 1995
- P. GROS, L'architettura romana. I monumenti pubblici, Milano 2001
- P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari 2007
P. MORACHIELLO, V. FONTANA, L’architettura nel mondo romano, Roma–Bari 2009.
- P. ZANKER, A.M. SENATORE, La città romana, Roma–Bari 2013.
SUBURBAN AREAS
- Misurare la terra: centuriazione e coloni nel mondo romano (a cura di S. SETTIS), Modena 1983
- G. TRAINA, Ambiente e paesaggi di Roma antica, Roma 1990
- M. ANNIBALETTO, Oltre la città: il suburbio nel mondo romano, Padova 2010
- Sistemi centuriali e opere di assetto agrario tra età romana e primo Medioevo. Atti Convegno, in Agri centuriati 6, Pisa-Roma 2010.
- G. BONORA, M. DOLCI, Le regioni dell’Italia romana. Urbanistica e topografia nella divisione amministrativa di Augusto, Milano 2013
HOUSING
- F. PESANDO, Oikos e ktesis. La casa greca in età classica, Roma 1987
- E. DE ALBENTIIS, La casa dei romani, Milano 1990
- D. SCAGLIARINI CORLAITA, Le villae romane nell'Italia settentrionale, in Ville romane sul Lago di Garda (a c. di E. ROFFIA), Brescia 1997, pp. 53-86.
- H. MIELSCH, La villa romana, Firenze 1999
- Etruskisch-italische und römisch-republikanische Häuser - La casa etrusco-italica e la casa romana-repubblicana (Atti Conv.), a c. di M. Bentz, Ch. Reusser, Wiesbaden 2010
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
- J. P. ADAM, L'arte di costruire presso i Romani, Milano 1989
- M.L. GUALANDI, I modi del costruire, in Civiltà dei Romani. La città il territorio, l'impero, a c. di S. SETTIS, Milano 1990, pp. 101- 114
- C.F. GIULIANI, L'edilizia nell'antichità, Roma 1998
- M. BIANCHINI, Le tecniche edilizie nel mondo antico, Roma 2010
Examination Methods
Preliminary presentation of a written essay or short paper to be agreed with the professor and then discussed in the examination.
Oral examination on the topics treated during the lessons.
Questions on the issues contained in one or more texts selected by the student, according to personal interest, including those listed below, in the general bibliography.