Classics

ANTONIO FRANCESCO FERRANDES

The course aims to deepen relevant topics connected to the world of Classical Archeology, considering some emblematic places of the Greek and Roman world and examining the existing interactions between man and the space where he lives and works, both in relation to the private and public spheres. Through the examination of a wide range of case studies, students will learn the main method tools used - thanks to the comparative analysis of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources - to reconstruct the social or sometimes "more intimate"; dimension of different places (houses, public spaces, places of worship, necropolis, places related to production, exchange and trade). Places where the peoples who have alternated in the Mediterranean between Archaism and the end of Antiquity have built some of the features determinants of their historical and cultural parable.

No specific prerequisites are required. Students who have never attended an archaeology course are asked to contact the instructor.

- W. Scheidel (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Roman economy, Cambridge 2012.
- W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller (eds.),The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge 2008.

- W. Scheidel (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Roman economy, Cambridge 2012.
- W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller (eds.),The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge 2008.

Attendance to the course is highly recommended, though not mandatory. Those who are unable to attend will be required to supplement the syllabus with additional readings agreed upon with the instructor.