ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF GREEK ART

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY

Disciplinary Sector:

CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GARAU Elisabetta

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Students are recommended the basic knowledge of Greek History and Greek Archaeology and the history of the art.

AF code:

3000881

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Final oral exam. A verify in itinere is scheduled; it will be an integral part of the final exam.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims to offer the instruments to know the phenomenon of the Western Greek ‘colonization’, the phases of development, the urban and monumental appearance of the principal cities of Southern Italy and Sicily built by the Greeks.
At the end of this course the student will be able to face critically the themes and the problems illustrated and to analyze the Western Greek colonies on the basis of the related historical-social-economic and geographic-environmental contexts.

Contents

The course will examine the Greek colonial dynamics toward the West and offer a general framework of the colonial structures, the territory, the main artistic expressions and the material culture in Magna Graecia and Sicily.

Recommended Bibliography

The following texts is recommended.

E. Greco, Archeologia della grecità occidentale. 1. La Magna Grecia, Bologna, Monduzzi, 2008.
L. Cerchiai, L. Jannelli, F. Longo, Città greche della Magna Grecia e della Sicilia, Verona, Arsenale editrice, 2001 (the pages will be indicated during the lessons).

To the students who can’t attend the course: please contact the teacher in order to agree some integrative readings.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Face to face lessons, seminars, laboratory on pottery.
The students will play an active part in the lessons illustrating (by powerpoint) some themes related to the course.

Contacts/More Information

Other indications useful to the study of the exam will be fournished during the course.

The students will be received on established appointments by e-mail (bettagarau@uniss.it; bettagarau@yahoo.com)

Other courses

Course year: 1

ARCHAEOMETRY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
GEOMORPHOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION
6 credits - Caratterizzante
HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE
6 credits - Caratterizzante
LATIN EPIGRAPHY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ROMAN ARCHEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS
6 credits - A scelta dello studente
ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF GREEK ART
6 credits - A scelta dello studente

Course year: 2

ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ANTIQUITY
12 credits - Caratterizzante
LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante

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