LC112 - CIVILIZATION OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY

courses
ID:
LC112
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
ETRUSCOLOGIA E ANTICHITÀ ITALICHE
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
BENI ARCHEOLOGICI E STORICO-ARTISTICI/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

Provide the tools needed to frame in detail the themes related to the development of the Italic peoples and to address specific aspects of their material culture, examining in depth the aspects characterizing the Middle-Adriatic cultures for the understanding of the history of the territory between Marche and Abruzzo

Course Prerequisites

No specific requirements

Teaching Methods

The course is organized in two teaching modules of 3 CFU each, for a total of 6 credits and an in-depth module of 3 in which reports and educational visits will be carried out

Assessment Methods

Oral exam, which includes three questions; one of which may focus on the report work carried out in the classroom for the attending students

Texts

MANDATORY FOR ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS (6CFU):
- M. Pallottino, Genti e culture dell’Italia preromana (provided on fad platform);
- F. Pesando, L’Italia antica. Culture e forme del popolamento nel I millennio a.C.; Carocci Roma; 2005; pagine/Capitoli: pp. 13-55, 117-237, 252-266;
- A. Naso, I Piceni. Storia e archeologia delle Marche in età preromana, 2000, pp. 29-37, 45-229 (liberamente scaricabile al link: https://www.academia.edu/4875717/I_Piceni_Storia_e_archeologia_delle_Marche_in_epoca_preromana_Biblioteca_di_Archeologia_29_Milano_2000 );
IN-DEPTH FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS (3CFU)
In-depth texts will be provided during the lessons, on the basis of which exercises and readings will be organized in the classroom.

IN-DEPTH FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS (3CFU)
One of choice among:
L. Cerchiai, Gli antichi popoli della Campania. Archeologia e storia, Carocci, Roma 2010, pp. 9-117;
A. Guidi, Roma preistorica, Carocci, Roma, 2024;
M. Osanna, Mondo Nuovo. Viaggio alle origini della Magna Grecia, Rizzoli, 2024;
- G. Bartoloni, Le società dell’Italia primitiva. Lo studio delle necropoli e la nascita delle aristocrazie; Carocci 2003.

Contents

Tools and sources for the study of the peoples of ancient Italy since the Final Bronze Age to the beginning of Romanization (10th-3rd century BC), with specific attention to the central area of the peninsula.
The ethne of pre-Roman Italy as recorded by the ancient authors: themes related to the origin and development.
The impact of Greek and Phoenician colonization on the development of the populations of ancient Italy;
The languages of pre-Roman Italy: diffusion, nature and relationships with the peoples’ distribution;
The distinctive characteristics of material culture between the archaeological record and ideological forms.
- Forms of population;
- Funerary rituals;
- Production and material culture.

Focus on the populations of Apennine Italy:
- Umbrians;
- Picenes;
- Equi, Equicoli, Volsci;
- Peoples of pre-Roman Abruzzo;
- Samnites

Course Language

Italian

Degrees

Degrees

BENI ARCHEOLOGICI E STORICO-ARTISTICI 
Master’s Degree
2 years
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