2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

L-ANT/07 (CLASSIC ARCHAEOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

HARARI MAURIZIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

A basic knowledge of Greek and Roman history and civilization.
These classes are strictly connected with Classical Archaeology, of which they must be regarded as an essential completion and a sort of methodological introduction.

These lectures aim at giving an account of the development of classical archaeology from antiquarianism to history of art and ancient history tout court.

A) History of archaeological research and criticism in Greek, Etruscan and Roman art, from antiquity to the present time.

B) Myth and archaeology at Troy, from Schliemann to Korfmann.

C) Two special lectures delivered by Dr Rosanina Invernizzi (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism), to illustrate development and features of Italian Law in the field of cultural heritage.

Lectures, with commentaries to PowerPoint presentations.

A. Schnapp, The Discovery of the Past, New York, Abrams, 1997
R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Introduzione all'archeologia classica come storia dell'arte antica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, repr. 2005
C. Gamble, Archaeology: the basics, Abingdon, Routledge, repr. 2015

Oral examination. The students shall be requested to critically analyse some of the historico-methodological topics debated in the recommended selected bibliography.

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, must read, moreover, a fourth essay:

N. Himmelmann, Utopia del passato. Archeologia e cultura moderna, Bari, De Donato, 1981
or
G. Pucci, Il passato prossimo: la scienza dell'antichità alle origini della cultura moderna, Roma, Carocci, 1993
or
M. Barbanera (ed.), Relitti riletti. Metamorfosi delle rovine e identità culturale, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2011