- Docente: Anna Maria Brizzolara
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-ANT/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World (cod. 0965)
Learning outcomes
Aim of the course is to supply deep knowledge on different topics of the Greek society during the I millennium BC., providing the critical tools for a correct comprehension of the archaeological documentation.
Course contents
A. The Greeks in Italy. From the Myceneans contacts to the historical colonisation. The provenance of colonist from various areas of Greece. The main Greek cities of Sicily and Magna Graecia. The cities and their territories: urban planning and settlement procedures. The agorai. The sanctuaries.
B. The Greeks in Italy. Outlines of the history of art and material culture of the western Greek world.
The course will begin september 30, 2013. During the first lesson will be given instructions about the course and the exam.
Students taking the exam for 6 CFU must prepare A or B. Student with 12 CFU must prepare A and B.
Readings/Bibliography
A. G.F. La Torre, Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Archeologia della colonizzazione greca d'Occidente, Manuali Laterza,Roma-Bari 2011: pp.5-63;157-224; 248-267; 269-326.
B. E.Greco, Archeologia della Grecità occidentale.1: La Magna Grecia, Monduzzi, Bologna 2008, pp.13-123; M.Torelli, Dei e Artigiani. Archeologie delle colonie greche d'Occidente, Laterza,Roma-Bari 2011, pp. 139-186; G.Sena Chiesa (a cura di), Vasi,immagini, collezionismo, Cisalpino-Monduzzi, Milano 2008 : only A.Pontrandolfo, Ceramografia e pittura nel mondo magno greco, pp. 185-206 and F.Lissarrague, Réflexions sur l'image dans la céramique de Grande Grèce, pp. 209-227.
Teaching methods
Teaching method consists of head-on lessons. All students will have the chance to supplement the lectures of the course with practice in laboratory among the didactic proposals of the Department of Archaeology.
Assessment methods
The examen consist in an oral test (in italian) concerning the provenance of colonist from variuos areas of Greece, urban planning and settlement procedures, agorai, sanctuaries and artistic and monumental productions. It is required knowledge of indicated bibliography for A and/or B.
Teaching tools
During the lessons visual aids will be widely used, especially projections from computer (power point).Explanatory paper materials, concerning specific subjects of the course, will be handed out in classroom.
Office hours
See the website of Anna Maria Brizzolara