CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Dario PALERMO
Credit Value: 9
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Outlines the history of classical archaeology, the archaeological methods, the literary sources and other data suitable for the reconstruction of the ancient world. Typology, chronology and history of the Greek and Roman monuments of the architecture, sculpture and painting.


Course Structure

Formal lectures


Detailed Course Content

1. Archeological methods, literary sources, history of the discipline, historiography of greek and roman art.

2. Materials, techniques, typologies and chronology of the greek and roman architecture.

3. Materials, techniques, typologies and chronology of the greek and roman sculpture, relief and painting, with particular attention to the iconographic and stylistic reading of the ancient work of art.


Textbook Information

R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Introduzione all’Archeologia, Universale Laterza.

G. Becatti, L’arte dell’età classica, Sansoni.