2013/2014

2015/2016

DM270

L-ANT/07 (CLASSIC ARCHAEOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

3°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

HARARI MAURIZIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

No special cultural background is requested, except for some quite general knowledge of plot and characters of the famous Homeric epics (Iliad and Odyssey).

The lectures aim at giving a basic knowledge of classical mythology, for a correct exegesis of the imagery of Greek and Roman art.

The lectures will focus some essential theoretic and methodological aspects, within the historic development of classical studies: what is a myth - which are the functions of a myth - the relationship between text and narrative imagery - reading images: iconography and iconology.

Monographic classes: Some problems of imagery in a sarcophagus from Paphos (Cyprus).

Lectures

All students must read three basic handbooks:

F. Graf, Greek Mythology. An Introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
K. Kérényi, The Gods of the Greeks, London, Thames & Hudson, 1980
K. Kérényi, The Heroes of the Greeks, London, Thames & Hudson, 1997.

An oral examination.

Students coming from other European countries are allowed to answer in French, English or German language.

The students, who can not regularly attend the lectures, are required to read, moreover, a fourth book, to be chosen among the followings:

Th.H. Carpenter, Art and myth in ancient Greece: a handbook, London, Thames & Hudson, 1991 [a French transl.: Paris 1997]
A.M. Snodgrass, Homer and the artists: text and picture in early Greek art, Cambridge University Press, 1998
A. Steiner, Reading Greek vases, Cambridge University Press, 2007
S. Woodford, Images of myths in classical antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2003.