PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN - I
- Academic year
- 2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- PREISTORIA E PROTOSTORIA DEL MEDITERRANEO ORIENTALE I
- Course code
- FT0163 (AF:360174 AR:190128)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-FIL-LET/01
- Period
- 3rd Term
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
- E. BORGNA, “La civiltà minoica”, in Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, Il mondo antico I, 2, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2006, pp. 125-166.
- BOMBARDIERI L., GRAZIADIO G., JASINK M., Preistoria e Protostoria Egea e Cipriota, Firenze University Press 2015, pp. 1-59 (only chapters 1-2).
- DEL FREO M., PERNA M. (eds.), Manuale di epigrafia micenea, Padova 2016 (only chapters 3-5).
Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Suppl. 1970-1995, Roma, Istituto Enciclopedia Italiana, 1994-1997:
- Cicladica, Arte (J. DAVIS);
- Elladica, Arte (L. VAGNETTI);
- Minoico-Micenea, Civiltà e Arte (F. CARINCI, V. LA ROSA, L. VAGNETTI).
This part has to be integrated with images from:
- J.-C. POURSAT, L’Art égéen 1. Grèce, Cyclades, Crète jusqu'au milieu du 2. millénaire av. J.-C., Picard, 2008.
- J.-C. POURSAT, L’Art égéen 2. Mycènes et le monde mycénien, Paris, Picard, 2014.
Other books (not mandatory):
- E. H. CLINE (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology) Oxford University press, Oxford 2010.
- C. W. SHELMERDINE (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008.
- English lessons by J. RUTTER, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, on http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=104
Assessment methods
The questions are related to: a) Neolithic and Bronze Age chronology in the Eastern Mediterranean and relative issues; b) developments of the main civilizations of the Aegean world: Cycladic, Helladic, Minoan, and Western Anatolian in the Bronze Age. The student will be asked to identify plans/photos of archaeological sites and/or objects belonging to the artistic productions of the four aforementioned civilizations.