39985 - Etruscan and Italic Civilization (1)

Learning outcomes

The course intends to offer a basic knowledge of Etruscan culture and of its relations with the other cultures of ancient Italy during about equivalent to the first millennium B.C. Because of the almost complete absence of written sources, only a careful and correct reading of the archaeological evidence allows to reconstruct historical sequence, social changes and cultural features of the Etruscans and of their cities between the tenth and the first Century B.C.

 

Course contents

The architectural heritage of Etruria

Etruscan monumental tombs and the tomb chambers. From huts to houses. Aristocratic palaces and the domus typology of houses. Etruscan temples and sanctuaries. Political and artistic figurative programme. 

Readings/Bibliography

G. Colonna, Urbanistica e architettura, in, Rasenna. Storia e civiltà degli Etruschi, Milano 1986, pp. 371-530; G. Bartoloni, L'Architettura, in Introduzione all'Etruscologia (a cura di G. Bartoloni), Milano 2016, pp. 253-308. One of these contributions:

(students that don't attend course have to prepare three of these):

Funerary architecture: F. Prayon, L'architettura funeraria, in, Gli Etruschi (Catalogo della Mostra, Venezia, 2000-2001), Milano 2000, pp. 335-343; G. Colonna, F.W. Von Hase, Alle origini della statuaria etrusca: la tomba delle statue presso Ceri, in “Studi Etruschi” 52 (1984, ed. 1986), pp. 13-59; A. Maggiani, Le statue di Casale Marittimo, in Principi guerrieri. La necropoli etrusca di Casale Marittimo (Catalogo della Mostra, Cecina, 6 marzo-31 ottobre 1999), Milano 1999, pp. 33-39; A. E. Feruglio, Le necropoli etrusche, in Storia di Orvieto. I , Antichità, Perugia 2003, pp. 275-328.

Sanctuaries: Santuari d'Etruria (Catalogo della mostra), 1985, solo i saggi introduttivi ai singoli capitoli.

Domestic architecture: L. Donati, Architettura civile, sacra e domestica, in Gli Etruschi (Catalogo della Mostra, Venezia, 2000-2001), Milano 2000, pp. 313-334.

Teaching methods

During the lessons visual aids will be widely used, especially slides and projections from computer. Explanatory paper materials, concerning specific subjects of the course, will be handed out in classroom.

Assessment methods

Final test consists of an oral examination only. The examination consists in three general questions that are the starting point of a more detailed discussion.  In case of integrated course (12 cfu) the vote of Introduction to Etruscology (Prof. Govi) is average with that of Etruscology and italic archaeology (Prof. Sassatelli).

Teaching tools

Teaching methods consist in lessons, seminars on specific parts and visits to Museums and archaeological sites of the Region. All those students who may be concerned will have the chance to supplement the lectures of the course with laboratory practice among the didactic proposals of the Department of Archaeology relatively in particular to the opportunity of excavating the Etruscan site of Marzabotto and of studying, cataloguing and drawing archaeological items.

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Sassatelli