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Etruscan and Italic Civilisations
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Through the analysis of one or more specific cases, the course aims to provide the methodological tools and fundamental knowledge useful for critically addressing a research topic relating to Etruscan-Italic history, art and archaeology, also from the perspective of material and immaterial heritage transmitted by these populations in subsequent eras and up to the present day.
SKILLS IN APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate knowledge and practical and theoretical application of the main tools of critical analysis and identification of archaeological materials and contexts of Etruria and pre-Roman Italy, together with the ability to apply them to even unpublished documentation; he must therefore be able to identify and contextualize chronologically and stylistically the materials being studied and examined in order to extract information useful for research. Starting from the notions learned, the student must also demonstrate that he is able to connect the knowledge between them, in order to formulate autonomous judgments on the data collected in interdisciplinary contexts.
FURTHER EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES:
A-Independent judgement:
The student should have the ability to select and interpret data useful for determining autonomous judgements, including reflection on cultural, artistic, archaeologic, artistic and socio-anthropological issues related to the study of ancient people of preroman Italy.
B-Communication skills:
The student should be able to communicate with clarity and effectiveness, appropriately adapting the communication to the interlocutor and the context.
C-Learning skills:
Students must be able to apply their knowledge and comprehension skills with a view to the growing and increasingly autonomous acquisition of knowledge useful for broadening their cultural horizon and appropriate skills both to devise and support arguments and to solve problems in their field of study with a view to gaining a solid theoretical-methodological and cultural-historical basis, as envisaged by the objectives of the CoS.
Course Prerequisites
At least elementary knowledge of the morphology and syntax of Italian is an important condition for dealing with the teaching content.
A basic knowledge of the history and archaeology of the Greek and Roman world can undoubtedly facilitate learning and deepening the course topics.
Teaching Methods
Knowledge and understanding can be achieved through participation in lectures, as well as visits and activities planned as part of the course, accompanied by exercises in the classification and interpretation of the works. The frontal teaching constantly makes use of the use of Power Point presentations and multimedia materials. Practical activities include autopsy analyses of monuments and finds, in which we move from the descriptive approach to the interpretation and contextualization of the work.
Attending lessons is highly recommended.
Assessment Methods
The exam takes place orally, in Italian.
Evaluation criteria:
The final evaluation, expressed in thirtieths, is aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of the right knowledge and skills, both methodological and specific, and the achievement of the educational objectives highlighted above. The student will be evaluated on the basis of the contents exposed, formal and doctrinal correctness, and the ability to argue one's theses. The correct use of terminology, the ability to apply the procedures of description and analysis to the various materials, the completeness of information, the ability to apply the discipline's own methodologies; the ability to synthesise the contents, the originality of the approach will be assessed.
During the course, the possibility of providing a part of the final exam also through an essay will be evaluated.
Texts
In addition to the lecture notes, students will have to study:
1) G. Bartoloni (a cura di), Introduzione all’Etruscologia, Ed. Hoepli, Roma 2012, except for the pp. 57-90.
2) F. Pesando (a cura di), L’Italia antica: culture e forme del popolamento nel I millennio a.C., Carocci, Roma 2005.
For the monographic course:
3) V. Nizzo, Gli Etruschi in Campania. Storia di una (ri)scoperta dal XVI al XIX secolo, Milano 2020.
Multimedia support and in-depth materials are available in the "RISORSE UTILI" section of the teacher's personal page: https://unifind.unior.it/get/person/211861
Further, specific, bibliographical references will be indicated during the lessons.
For non-attending students, in addition to the exam texts indicated above, it will be necessary to agree on a specific study program.
Contents
ARCHAEOLOGY OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY
The course aims to outline a general and specialized framework of the processes of formation and structuring of ethnic and cultural identities in which Italy was divided in pre-Roman times from the 9th to the 1st century BC, on the basis of the information deduced from the critical comparison between the various types of sources available. Particular attention will also be given to the examination of the dynamics of contact and comparison with other populations of the contemporary Mediterranean.
The monographic part of the course will be dedicated to the in-depth study of the historical-cultural dynamics and the evolution of archaeological methodologies that led to the rediscovery of the Etruscan presence in Italy from the Renaissance to the 20th century, with particular reference to Campania.
General part:
1. Archaeology of preroman Italy: areas of study, historical framework, sources, methods and research perspectives.
2. The history of studies.
3. Ethnos and culture: the (false) problem of the origins of the Etruscans from ancient representations to modern interpretations.
4. Pre-Roman Italy: environment and natural resources.
5. The formation of ethnic identities (12th-9th centuries).
6. The birth of the city and the first aristocracies (9th-8th century).
7. The age of princes: comparison and cultural hybridization (8th-7th century).
8. Archaism: from the apogee to the conflict (6th-5th century)
9. Crisis and transformation (5th-4th century)
10. From Hellenism to Romanization (4th-1st century)
11. Etruria proper and the other cultures of central Italy
12. Po Valley Etruria and other cultures of northern Italy
13. Campanian Etruria and the other cultures of southern Italy and the islands
14. Society, institutions and economy
15. Religion and sacred spaces
16. Art, artistic craftsmanship and material culture: from the early Iron Age to the Orientalizing period
17. Art, artistic craftsmanship and material culture: from Archaism to Hellenism
18. Language, writing and literature
Monographic part:
The discovery of the Etruscans
The Etruscan Campania
As part of the course, a visit to the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia is planned.
Course Language
ITALIAN
More information
The course is provided according to a 9 CFU program (AM course).
Further reading suggestions may be provided by the lecturer during the course, at the student's request, in relation to particular themes and aspects of the course.