30450 - Themes and Methods of Far Eastern Archaeology

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Enrico Acquaro
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-OR/05
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide methodological and critical tools to develop topics related to the archaeology and art history in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age.

Upon completion of the course students should achieve a critical awareness and methodological skills that allow them to relate material culture and art to the historical and geographical context concerned.

Course contents

prof. Enrico Acquaro: 8 CFU): The Shrine. Problems in Chronology, Strategy, Assimililation and Ethnicity: Egypt and West.

dr. Paola De Vita (4 CFU): The Phoenicians end Grecs in the Mediterranean.

Readings/Bibliography

prof. Acquaro: Lessons' notes;E. Acquaro - D. Ferrari (edd.), Le antichità fenicie rivisitate. Miti e culture (= Biblioteca di Byrsa. Rivista semestrale di arte, cultura e archeologia del Mediterraneo punico, 5), Lugano 2008.

dr Paola De Vita: Lessons' notes; M. Congiu et alii (edd.), Greci e Punici in Sicilia tra V e IV secolo a.C., Caltanissetta - Roma 2008; S.F. Bondi, Carthage et les peuples autochtones de la Méditerranée. Les relations avec les Elymes, in A. Ferjaoui (ed.), Carthage et les autochttones de son empire du temps de Zama, Tunis 2010, pp. 103 -109; P. Giammellaro (ed.), Visti dall'altra sponda. Interferenze culturali nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del V Incontro Orientalisti, Palermo, 6-8 dicembre 2008, Roma 2009; P. De Vita - F. Venturi (edd.), Da Tell Afis a Mozia. Culture a confronto tra Oriente e Occidente (= Byrsa, arte, cultura e archeologia del Mediterraneo punico, VIII, 15, 15-16/2009), Lugano 2011.

Teaching methods

Lessons and seminars.

Assessment methods

Written test and oral exam.

Teaching tools

Slides and photocopies.

Links to further information

http://www.fenici.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Enrico Acquaro

See the website of Paola De Vita