2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

L-ANT/06 (ETRUSCAN AND ITALIC CIVILISATIONS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

3°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

HARARI MAURIZIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Nothing

These lectures aim to historically focusing the main structural components of ancient Etruscan society (family, laws, classes, magistracy, religion and its observances, language), in comparison with the other poeples of Italy before the Romans.

The problem of Etruscan origins; some crucial times and events of Etruscan history from Early Iron Age to Romanization; an outline of Etruscan epigraphy; society and laws; religion.

Lectures, with commentaries to PowerPoint presentations.

This series of lectures should be possibly complemented by guided tours of Etruscan places and collections.

The handbook may be chosen among the followings:

G. Bartoloni ed., Introduzione all'etruscologia, Milano, Hoepli, 2012
G. Camporeale, Gli Etruschi. Storia e civiltà, Torino, UTET, rev. ed. 2011
M. Cristofani ed., Gli Etruschi. Una nuova immagine, Firenze, Giunti, repr. 2007
J. MacIntosh Turfa (ed.), The Etruscan World, London-New York, Routledge, 2013 (only parts I-V)
M. Pallottino, The Etruscans, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books (Pelican), repr. 1978.

The students, who can not regularly attend the lectures, have to read two handbooks (instead of only one).

Note: to foreign postgraduate students who belong to modern curricula or are more interested in modern culture, we propose the option for another possible program, which will be described in all detail in class.

Oral test, based on the ability to analyze relevant pictures, selected from the above-quoted handbooks.

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

In the frame of this course, Prof Silvia Paltineri (Padua University) will give 6 seminar classes on the topic of city formation process during the Villanovan cultural phase.