27280 - Seminars (1) (G.D)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar students will be able to interpret issues related to specific historical phenomena in a diachronic and transversal perspective, thought the elaboration and synthesis of the data coming from the analysis of written records and material sources and from the collective debate originated from the contact with other people. They will be able to formulate autonomously and in an organized way a research path or an intellectual work, using the specific acquired tools with methodological rigour, precision and accuracy.

Course contents

The seminar deals with the study of the Aegean civilizations of the Bronze Age (third and second millennium B.C.E). Lessons will firstly deal with geography and history of the researches; then with theCycladic civilization; the Cretan sites and the different paths that brought about the formation of the first Minoan palaces; the impact of the Cretan civilization outside the island and on the Greek mainland communities; and eventually the Mycenaean civilization, with the analysis of a few key-sites, such as Lerna, Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos

Readings/Bibliography

E. Cline (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, Oxford 2010

C. Shelmerdine (a cura di), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge 2008

L. Bombardieri, G. Gradiadio, E. Iasink, Preistoria e protostoria egea e cipriota, Firenze 2015 (acquisto obbligatorio)

Teaching methods

Lesson, followed by questions and possibly debate

Assessment methods

Individual presentation on selected topics at the end of seminar

Teaching tools

Presentations from the lessons and pdf publications

Office hours

See the website of Santo Privitera