ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK COLONIZATION AND OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT088N

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Disciplinary Sector:

CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MENOZZI Oliva

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge on Classical Archaeology (whose lectures must be attended on the previous term).
Basic knowledge on the ancient history of the Mediterranean, even from previous scholastic education.

Objectives

• To master the knowledge about Greek Colonization and its relationship with non-Greek cultures in the Mediterranean basin, especially in the first half of the 1st millennium BC.
• To master the knowledge about Pre-roman Italy during 1st millennium BC, the many cultures present in the areas, their evolution through time, until the unification under Rome.
• To be able to make logic connections, of both diachronic and in the various contexts and regarding the various archaeological cultures which were presented during the lectures.
• To understand the connections existing between historical phenomena and the archaeological evidence regarding both Greek Colonization and Pre-roman Italy.

Contents

Archaeology of Greek Colonization in the Mediterranean and of Pre-Roman Italy.

Extended Syllabus

• Introduction to the subject: general concepts on Greek colonization.
• The Mediterranean context and the beginnings of Greek colonization.
• Navigation in the Greek world.
• The Greeks on the Anatolian coast.
• Overview on Anatolians, the East and the Persians.
• The Greeks and the East, Al Mina and the role of Eastern cultures for 8th and 7th century Greeks
• The complex cultural mosaic of Cyprus.
• The Greeks in Egypt: Naukratis.
• Northern Aegean and Black Sea, the Greeks among Thracians and Scythians.
• The Greeks in Libya: Cyrene.
• Greek migration to the West and general overview of Pre-roman Italy.
• Magna Graecia: the Euboeans in Campania.
• Anellenic peoples in Campania: Etruscans, Ausoni, Opici, Samnites and Campani.
• Magna Graecia: the Achaeans between Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas.
• Magna Graecia: le Ionic colonies and their later developments.
• Anellenic peoples of Basilicata and Calabria: Enotri, Choni, Lucani and Brettii.
• Magna Graecia: Spartans in Tarentum.
• Preroman Apulia and the Iapiges: Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians.
• Magna Graecia: The Locrians in Southern Calabria.
• Anellenic peoples in Sicily (Siculi, Sicani, Elimi, Phoenicians) and the Euboean presence on the strait and on Eastern Sicily.
• The Corinthians in Sicily: Syracuse.
• The Megarians Sicily: Megara Hyblaea and Selinous.
• Rhodians and Cnidians in Sicily: Gela, Akragas and Lipari.
• Punic Sicily and Elimian allies.
• Tyrennian sea and nearby areas: Nuragic and Punic Sardinia, Etruscan trade interests and Greek colonization in Southern France.
• The Adriatic: from the Greek colonies in Illyria to Greek and Etruscan emporia in the Upper Adriatic area.
• Etruria, overview from the Villanovian phase to the submission to Rome.
• Northern Italy: Padan Etruria, Veneti, Rhaetians, Liguri, celtic peoples and their migrations.
• Latium and Latins from the Early Iron Age to the Roman hegemony.
• Overview on the Appennine-Adriatic Sabellian peoples with a special focus on Pre-romam Abruzzo.
• Samnites.
• Picenians.
• Umbrians.
• General remarks on cultural unification under Rome.

Recommended Bibliography

FOR THOSE WHO ATTEND LECTURES
• Notes takes during lectures (these are important as the lectures will also present arguments not explained in books).
The following texts:
• BOARDMAN J., The Greeks Overseas: the Early Colonies and Trade (Thames & Hudson, Fourth Edition, 1999).
• PESANDO F, L’Italia antica. Culture e Forme di Popolamento nel I Millennio a.C., Carrocci Editore, 2005.
• OSANNA M., VERGER S. Tota Italia, Alle Origini di una Nazione. IV Secolo a.C. – I Secolo d.C., Editore Artem, 2021, (Ediz. Illustrata)

FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT ATTEND LECTURES
A total of 6 books:
• The three above-mentioned texts
• GRAS M., Il Mediterraneo nell’Età Arcaica, Fondazione Paestum 1997.
• An option on Etruscology/ Preroman Italy.
• An option on Greek Colonies.

The option on Etruscology/ Preroman Italy must be chosen among the following entries:
• BARTOLONI G, Introduzione all’Etruscologia, Hoepli 2011.
• CAMPOREALE G., Gli Etruschi, Storia e civiltà, UTET. (Quarta edizione del 2015, ma vanno bene anche altre edizioni).
• (SINGOLA OPZIONE COMPOSTA DA DUE LIBRI) TORELLI M., L’arte degli Etruschi (ediz. Illustrata), Laterza 1998 + TORELLI M., Storia degli Etruschi, Laterza 2005.
• (SINGOLA OPZIONE COMPOSTA DA DUE LIBRI) CHIARAMONTE TRERÉ, L’ Italia del Primo Millennio a.C.. Archeologia e Culture, CUEM editore, 2006 + CHIARAMONTE TRERÉ, Archeologia d’Etruria, CUEM editore, 2008.

The option on Greek Colonies must be chosen among the following entries:
• LA TORRE G., Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Archeologia della colonizzazione greca d’Occidente, Laterza 2011.
• GRECO G., Archeologia della Magna Grecia, Laterza 2005.
• TORELLI M., Dei e Artigiani. Archeologia delle Colonie Greche d’Occidente, Laterza 2011.
• GUZZO P.G., Fondazioni Greche. L’Italia Meridionale e la Sicilia (VIII e VII sec. a.C.), Carocci 2011.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lectures, using powerpoint presentations.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam.
The following will be evaluated: knowledge, proficiency in organizing knowledges, critical reasoning on the matter.

Contacts/More Information

Lectures are given in the second term.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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