MM338 - ROMAN AND GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY

courses

ID:

MM338

Duration (hours):

42

CFU:

SSD:

ARCHEOLOGIA CLASSICA

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

HUMANITIES/STORIA Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Course Objectives

To provide the basic knowledge of the historical developpment on Greek and Roman art and civilisation and to make skills, methodological and conceptual tools related to the discipline

Course Prerequisites

basic knowledge of Greek and Roman history

Teaching Methods

Lectures with extensive use of multimedia, seminars on specific technical aspects and on bibliographi tools, exercises of reading and commenting scientific texts, study tours and guided visits in archaeological sites and museums ( Rome and Others), laboratories concerning archaeological finds.

Assessment Methods

1.written test on basic skills concerning the history of Greek and Roman art, acquired in the domestic and assisted study of handbook: identification and comment of 5 pictures concerning the Greek art and 5 concerning the Roman art, from the handbook;
2. written exercises in critical reading scientific texts and bibliographical researches;
3. oral examen on the contents of lectures.
The final mark carried out by the sum of the three parts marks (test, exercises, oral exam)

Texts

GREEK PART:
E. Lippolis, G. Rocco, Archeologia greca. Cultura, società, politica e produzione, 2011, Editore: Mondadori.
ROMAN PART:
choose between
- Grassigli G. L.; Menichetti M.; Torelli M, Arte e archeologia nel mondo romano. Milano 2008
- R Bianchi Bandinelli, Arte Romana nel Centro del potere
+ Notes, papeers and slides

Title of course: The image in the ancient art: beauty, identity, power
Module A ( 6 ects): Subjects, aims and forms of Greek art, from arcaic to hellenistic age
Module B (3 ects): Subjects, aims and forms of Roman Art, from monarchy to the late empire

Course Language

italian, but for foreign students also English, Spanish and french are accepted

More information

some lectures in connection with Other matters in the curriculum ( Greek and Roman litterature, ancient history, anthropology, museology and restoration