Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

The course aimsto
presentan overviewof the writingsofancient
Christianliterature and theirauthors, identifyingthe particularcontent,the compositional technique,the relationshipof continuityand discontinuitywith theliterary productionof the cultural environmentin which theywere born.During the lessonssome textswill be consideredto bethe subjectof literary analysis, linguistics,history.

- to study in depth some
significant literary genres within the historical framework of Medieval Greek
literature;

- to acquire a knowledge
of the distinctive traits of the system of literary genres within their
historical tradition;

- to acquire the skill to
compare the Medieval Greek literary tradition with other traditions;

- to deepen the
knowledge of textual criticism by applying its principles to traditions other
than the classical one.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

A critical and
autonomous approach to various themes connected to the meaning and the function
of the images in Byzantine art.

Students reach and improve historical, technical and bibliographical knolewdge in the development of latin writings in ancient and mediaeval age until XVIth century; they should be able to use all types of primary palaeographical sources, and to describe them appropriately. They will introduce to understand historical, cultural and social implications of writing in latin alphabet from late Antiquity to the rise of modern age, and should be familiar with the use of scientific and up-to-date bibliographic sources.

The course aimsto
presentan overviewof the writingsofancient
Christianliterature and theirauthors, identifyingthe particularcontent,the compositional technique,the relationshipof continuityand discontinuitywith theliterary productionof the cultural environmentin which theywere born.During the lessonssome textswill be consideredto bethe subjectof literary analysis, linguistics,history.

- to study in depth some
significant literary genres within the historical framework of Medieval Greek
literature;

- to acquire a knowledge
of the distinctive traits of the system of literary genres within their
historical tradition;

- to acquire the skill to
compare the Medieval Greek literary tradition with other traditions;

- to deepen the
knowledge of textual criticism by applying its principles to traditions other
than the classical one.

Giving students reliable
tools for critical research as well as the linguistic and philological
competence to work in different fields of medieval Latin literature. This
scientific training is indispensable to deep understanding of the long
historical period in which European culture took its roots.

Acquire the basic knowledge of the material and artistic culture of the society that has developed among the Copts of Egypt.

The topics of the course
will provide students with an outline of Islamic history and thought conceived
in an innovative way respecting current treatments of history of Muslim world.

The purpose of the course is an approach to the understanding of Islamic material culture and artistic expression of the first centuries of Islam, by means of archaeological evidences and sources: from the Roman-Byzantine castrum to the Islamic palace, from the Byzantine thermae to the Islamic baths, from the Sasanian audience hall to the Islamic audience hall; the typical buildings: the mosque, the madrasa, the caravanserai, the suq/bazaar. The aims of the caliphate will be extensively studied, from town planning to the so-called iconoclasm (and its relations with Byzantine and Hebrew iconoclasm), to the achievement of the emancipation processes from the Byzantine and the Persian civilizations (starting from the coinage).

Analysis of contexts from the Bronze Age and early Iron also according to an anthropological point.

The aim of this course
is to develop a skilled knowledge of research questions and methodologies in
the study past human-environment interactions, including subsistence and
subsistence change, by using case studies from Italy,
Europe and Mediterranean basin. Students will
be prepared to collect and analyse data using appropriate methods, to develop
critical analysis of arguments, to improve written and oral skills and to
report scientific results to publication standards.

Knowledge and understanding of the main formation
processes of the first sedentary
communities and early hierarchical pre-state societies in the Near
East. Analysis of the regional diversities (cultural, social,
environmental, and economic) that brought to the early urban and state societies. The regions
involved are: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant,
Egypt, and Iran.

The course aims to
provide a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective of issues related to the
Holocene prehistory of North Africa.

Students will acquire
advanced knowledge of recent developments in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a
focus on food procurement strategies, including the development of hunting
weapons.

The course is aimed to
present the methodology of the experimental archaeology, its development and
spread in the academy, the connections between the experimental archaeology and
the other archaeological disciplines. Moreover, a key point of the course is to
explain what an “experimental protocol” means and how to apply it for the
interpretation of the archaeological relics.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Remote sensing in
archaeology, data base, geographic information system.

Graphic
surveying systems and vector processing for the study and the virtual
reconstruction of ancient buildings.

Knowledge and application of methodology of the History of religions.

Cultural
History of ITC, data bases, and the net. A special focus on the Open Access
Movement. Data bases for the “Scholarly Communication”. Digital
Humanities

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Greek history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Aim of the course is to provide students with a brief
methodological framework for the study of the discipline and to engage them in
a topic research for which everyone is enabled to make his contribution.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Roman history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

The course is an advanced scientific and methodological expertise in research of Roman epigraphy.

Competence on the basic tools for research in the field of latin epigraphy and Roman institutions and knowledge of the main fields of research with deepening of methodological skills.

The aim of the course is
to study in depth and with
extensive use of sources a significant theme of
mediaeval history.

Knowledge and application of methodology of the History of religions.

The course aims to
deepen the concepts of Greek language, grammar and metric.

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

The course aimsto
presentan overviewof the writingsofancient
Christianliterature and theirauthors, identifyingthe particularcontent,the compositional technique,the relationshipof continuityand discontinuitywith theliterary productionof the cultural environmentin which theywere born.During the lessonssome textswill be consideredto bethe subjectof literary analysis, linguistics,history.

- to study in depth some
significant literary genres within the historical framework of Medieval Greek
literature;

- to acquire a knowledge
of the distinctive traits of the system of literary genres within their
historical tradition;

- to acquire the skill to
compare the Medieval Greek literary tradition with other traditions;

- to deepen the
knowledge of textual criticism by applying its principles to traditions other
than the classical one.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

The aim of the course is the consolidation of topographic analysis tools used for attitude reconstruction medieval settlement. Through the analysis of specific archaeological contexts, we intend to drive the research methodology of cultural interactions and topographic dynamics.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

Both class room lectures
and individual practical work in chemical laboratory are planned. The goal is to
provide the students with basic
knowledge and practice to recognize, by means of chemical techniques as simple
as effective, the nature of a variety of artifacts. In addition the students
will gain an insight on the use of tools like radiocarbon chronology,
palaeodiets and the provenance of the raw materials (minerals and metals, marble, flint, obsidian) traded in the past
throughout the Mediterranean sea.

The course is aimed to
present the methodology of the experimental archaeology, its development and
spread in the academy, the connections between the experimental archaeology and
the other archaeological disciplines. Moreover, a key point of the course is to
explain what an “experimental protocol” means and how to apply it for the
interpretation of the archaeological relics.

Knowledge and understanding of the main formation
processes of the first sedentary
communities and early hierarchical pre-state societies in the Near
East. Analysis of the regional diversities (cultural, social,
environmental, and economic) that brought to the early urban and state societies. The regions
involved are: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant,
Egypt, and Iran.

The aim of this course
is to develop a skilled knowledge of research questions and methodologies in
the study past human-environment interactions, including subsistence and
subsistence change, by using case studies from Italy,
Europe and Mediterranean basin. Students will
be prepared to collect and analyse data using appropriate methods, to develop
critical analysis of arguments, to improve written and oral skills and to
report scientific results to publication standards.

Students will acquire
advanced knowledge of recent developments in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a
focus on food procurement strategies, including the development of hunting
weapons.

The course aims to
provide a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective of issues related to the
Holocene prehistory of North Africa.

Analysis of contexts from the Bronze Age and early Iron also according to an anthropological point.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

Acquire the basic knowledge of the material and artistic culture of the society that has developed among the Copts of Egypt.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

Provide students with an advanced knowledge of the civilization on the past, the scene of significant processes of cultural and political confrontation.

Knowledge and application of methodology of the History of religions.

The course aims to
deepen the concepts of Greek language, grammar and metric.

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

Purpose of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of issues relating to the use of Cultural Heritage.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Greek history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Roman history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

Analysis of archaeological and linguistic aspects of
Egyptian culture.

Knowledge and application of methodology of the History of religions.

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

Successful
students will be able to understand basic principles of general paleontology,
taxonomy, systematics, species concepts, evolutionary principles. They
will have acquired basic information on principles and methods in Palaeoecology and on the
evolution of ecosystems, with particular attention to the Quaternary-early
Holocene palaeoenvironments.

Successful students will be able to apply
biological principles important in understanding the significance of fossil
remains in a geo-archeological context. They should be able to infer the
autoecology and synecology of extinct taxa by analyzing their fossil remains,
and to use the fossil record to infer palaeoenvironmental contexts and
evolution.

Both class room lectures
and individual practical work in chemical laboratory are planned. The goal is to
provide the students with basic
knowledge and practice to recognize, by means of chemical techniques as simple
as effective, the nature of a variety of artifacts. In addition the students
will gain an insight on the use of tools like radiocarbon chronology,
palaeodiets and the provenance of the raw materials (minerals and metals, marble, flint, obsidian) traded in the past
throughout the Mediterranean sea.

Analysis of contexts from the Bronze Age and early Iron also according to an anthropological point.

Students will acquire a basic knowledge of human evolution during the Pleistocene, from African origins to the peopling of most continents, taking into account archaeological evidence, environmental changes, human adaptation, technological developments, and the emergence of symbolic behaviour.

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

Successful
students will be able to understand basic principles of general paleontology,
taxonomy, systematics, species concepts, evolutionary principles. They
will have acquired basic information on principles and methods in Palaeoecology and on the
evolution of ecosystems, with particular attention to the Quaternary-early
Holocene palaeoenvironments.

Successful students will be able to apply
biological principles important in understanding the significance of fossil
remains in a geo-archeological context. They should be able to infer the
autoecology and synecology of extinct taxa by analyzing their fossil remains,
and to use the fossil record to infer palaeoenvironmental contexts and
evolution.

Both class room lectures
and individual practical work in chemical laboratory are planned. The goal is to
provide the students with basic
knowledge and practice to recognize, by means of chemical techniques as simple
as effective, the nature of a variety of artifacts. In addition the students
will gain an insight on the use of tools like radiocarbon chronology,
palaeodiets and the provenance of the raw materials (minerals and metals, marble, flint, obsidian) traded in the past
throughout the Mediterranean sea.

Demonstrated Knowledge:
Fundamental of designing and querying relational databases. Fundamental of HTML and organizing information into hypertext.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Learning about urban development process in
historical cities. Providing basic elements on: 1. the inspiring principles in
colonial planning in distinct historical
periods; 2. architectural components in urban framing;

3. technical processing work from the urban project to the accomplished
plan, to now-a-days situation through the post-roman alterations.

Analysing geopolitical context referring to
particularly interesting archaeological environments (from Mediterranean basin to
Central America).

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

Purpose of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of issues relating to the use of Cultural Heritage.

The didactical goal of
the archaeological section of the course “Civiltà Egee”, is represented by the
study of Minoan and Mycenaean civilization, in the wider context of the
Mediterranean area. From the islands (Cyprus, Cyclades) to Anatolia (Hittite
empire), and from Syrian and Palestinian coasts to the Egypt and to the far
routes to Italic coasts; the didactical goal of the philological section of the
course “Civiltà Egee” (channel 2), is the philological interpretation and study
of the Greek Mycenaean texts (II mill. a.C.).

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

The course aims to look
at some passages from a specific Sumerian literature from a linguistic,
historic-religious and ritualistic perspective.

The course
aims to provide an overview of the Akkadian literature.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

Provide students with an advanced knowledge of the civilization on the past, the scene of significant processes of cultural and political confrontation.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Greek history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Roman history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Competence on the basic tools for research in the field of latin epigraphy and Roman institutions and knowledge of the main fields of research with deepening of methodological skills.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

Analysis of archaeological and linguistic aspects of
Egyptian culture.

Acquire the basic knowledge of the material and artistic culture of the society that has developed among the Copts of Egypt.

The aim of the course is
to study in depth and with
extensive use of sources a significant theme of
mediaeval history.

Knowledge and application of methodology of the History of religions.

The course aims to
deepen the concepts of Greek language, grammar and metric.

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

- to study in depth some
significant literary genres within the historical framework of Medieval Greek
literature;

- to acquire a knowledge
of the distinctive traits of the system of literary genres within their
historical tradition;

- to acquire the skill to
compare the Medieval Greek literary tradition with other traditions;

- to deepen the
knowledge of textual criticism by applying its principles to traditions other
than the classical one.

Knowledge of the epigraphic evidence and of its historical and philological problems in the context of the ancient Near East. Ability to analyze such documents.

The course
aims to provide students enrolled in a course of Oriental Archaeology with the primary
linguistic tools of the Arabic language.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

The topics of the course
will provide students with an outline of Islamic history and thought conceived
in an innovative way respecting current treatments of history of Muslim world.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

Allow the student the acquisition of primary instruments of the knowledge of Islamic epigraphy.

The aim of the course is to provide students with tools for in-depth knowledge of the history and religion of ancient Iran.

The module aims to provide students with the basic lines of linguistic-philological kind of the Iranian ethnolinguistic area.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

In keeping with the course curriculum objectives, the goal of this class is to advance students' knowledge and understanding of the Archaeology of the Far East [East-Asian Archaeology]. The class builds on what students have already learned in their previous studies (corso laurea triennale). Additionally, students will receive basic instruction on research methodology which will enable them to formulate and articulate more sophisticated critical analyses and opinions, as well as work on innovative topics, thus acquiring the necessary learning skills for further independent study. The class also aims to improve students' communication skills so that they may better illustrate the process of how knowledge of the field is acquired and communicated effectively

Knowledge and understanding of the main formation
processes of the first sedentary
communities and early hierarchical pre-state societies in the Near
East. Analysis of the regional diversities (cultural, social,
environmental, and economic) that brought to the early urban and state societies. The regions
involved are: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant,
Egypt, and Iran.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Learning about urban development process in
historical cities. Providing basic elements on: 1. the inspiring principles in
colonial planning in distinct historical
periods; 2. architectural components in urban framing;

3. technical processing work from the urban project to the accomplished
plan, to now-a-days situation through the post-roman alterations.

Analysing geopolitical context referring to
particularly interesting archaeological environments (from Mediterranean basin to
Central America).

Remote sensing in
archaeology, data base, geographic information system.

Graphic
surveying systems and vector processing for the study and the virtual
reconstruction of ancient buildings.

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

Analysis of archaeological and linguistic aspects of
Egyptian culture.

Acquire the basic knowledge of the material and artistic culture of the society that has developed among the Copts of Egypt.

The course aims to look
at some passages from a specific Sumerian literature from a linguistic,
historic-religious and ritualistic perspective.

The course
aims to provide an overview of the Akkadian literature.

The course aims to provide students with an intermediate knowledge of the Hittite language.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

Knowledge of the epigraphic evidence and of its historical and philological problems in the context of the ancient Near East. Ability to analyze such documents.

The topics of the course
will provide students with an outline of Islamic history and thought conceived
in an innovative way respecting current treatments of history of Muslim world.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

Allow the student the acquisition of primary instruments of the knowledge of Islamic epigraphy.

The course
aims to provide students enrolled in a course of Oriental Archaeology with the primary
linguistic tools of the Arabic language.

The module aims to provide students with the basic lines of linguistic-philological kind of the Iranian ethnolinguistic area.

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

Analysis of contexts from the Bronze Age and early Iron also according to an anthropological point.

Students will acquire
advanced knowledge of recent developments in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a
focus on food procurement strategies, including the development of hunting
weapons.

The course is aimed to
present the methodology of the experimental archaeology, its development and
spread in the academy, the connections between the experimental archaeology and
the other archaeological disciplines. Moreover, a key point of the course is to
explain what an “experimental protocol” means and how to apply it for the
interpretation of the archaeological relics.

The aim of this course
is to develop a skilled knowledge of research questions and methodologies in
the study past human-environment interactions, including subsistence and
subsistence change, by using case studies from Italy,
Europe and Mediterranean basin. Students will
be prepared to collect and analyse data using appropriate methods, to develop
critical analysis of arguments, to improve written and oral skills and to
report scientific results to publication standards.

Knowledge and understanding of the main formation
processes of the first sedentary
communities and early hierarchical pre-state societies in the Near
East. Analysis of the regional diversities (cultural, social,
environmental, and economic) that brought to the early urban and state societies. The regions
involved are: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant,
Egypt, and Iran.

The course aims to
provide a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective of issues related to the
Holocene prehistory of North Africa.

Students will acquire a basic knowledge of human evolution during the Pleistocene, from African origins to the peopling of most continents, taking into account archaeological evidence, environmental changes, human adaptation, technological developments, and the emergence of symbolic behaviour.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Remote sensing in
archaeology, data base, geographic information system.

Graphic
surveying systems and vector processing for the study and the virtual
reconstruction of ancient buildings.

The course aims to enable students to acquire a
thorough knowledge of the history of Italian
medieval art.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

The course aims to look
at some passages from a specific Sumerian literature from a linguistic,
historic-religious and ritualistic perspective.

The course
aims to provide an overview of the Akkadian literature.

The course aims to provide students with an intermediate knowledge of the Hittite language.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

Knowledge of the epigraphic evidence and of its historical
and philological problems in the context of the ancient Near East. Ability to
analyze such documents.

The topics of the course
will provide students with an outline of Islamic history and thought conceived
in an innovative way respecting current treatments of history of Muslim world.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

Allow the student the acquisition of primary instruments of the knowledge of Islamic epigraphy.

The module aims to provide students with the basic lines of linguistic-philological kind of the Iranian ethnolinguistic area.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Remote sensing in
archaeology, data base, geographic information system.

Graphic
surveying systems and vector processing for the study and the virtual
reconstruction of ancient buildings.

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The didactical goal of
the archaeological section of the course “Civiltà Egee”, is represented by the
study of Minoan and Mycenaean civilization, in the wider context of the
Mediterranean area. From the islands (Cyprus, Cyclades) to Anatolia (Hittite
empire), and from Syrian and Palestinian coasts to the Egypt and to the far
routes to Italic coasts; the didactical goal of the philological section of the
course “Civiltà Egee” (channel 2), is the philological interpretation and study
of the Greek Mycenaean texts (II mill. a.C.).

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

Provide students with an advanced knowledge of the civilization on the past, the scene of significant processes of cultural and political confrontation.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Greek history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Aim of the course is to provide students with a brief
methodological framework for the study of the discipline and to engage them in
a topic research for which everyone is enabled to make his contribution.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Roman history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

The course is an advanced scientific and methodological expertise in research of Roman epigraphy.

Competence on the basic tools for research in the field of latin epigraphy and Roman institutions and knowledge of the main fields of research with deepening of methodological skills.

The course aims to
deepen the concepts of Greek language, grammar and metric.

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

The course aimsto
presentan overviewof the writingsofancient
Christianliterature and theirauthors, identifyingthe particularcontent,the compositional technique,the relationshipof continuityand discontinuitywith theliterary productionof the cultural environmentin which theywere born.During the lessonssome textswill be consideredto bethe subjectof literary analysis, linguistics,history.

- to study in depth some
significant literary genres within the historical framework of Medieval Greek
literature;

- to acquire a knowledge
of the distinctive traits of the system of literary genres within their
historical tradition;

- to acquire the skill to
compare the Medieval Greek literary tradition with other traditions;

- to deepen the
knowledge of textual criticism by applying its principles to traditions other
than the classical one.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

Learning about urban development process in
historical cities. Providing basic elements on: 1. the inspiring principles in
colonial planning in distinct historical
periods; 2. architectural components in urban framing;

3. technical processing work from the urban project to the accomplished
plan, to now-a-days situation through the post-roman alterations.

Analysing geopolitical context referring to
particularly interesting archaeological environments (from Mediterranean basin to
Central America).

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

To gain a knowledge of
various aspects of the relationship between human communities and plants used
in the past in the Mediterranean area, through the identification and
interpretation of archaeobotanical remains from various archaeological sites
with different ages and environmental contexts.

The course aims to provide an overview of population in Italy during the first millennium BC, with particular regard to the relations between different cultural areas of the peninsula, of which will be debeated also linguistic aspects, and relations with non-indigenous communities.

The purpose is to
provide critical tools in order to examine in- depth the main historical
subjects of the classical archaeology as well as the more recent research
trends.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Greek world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Widening of
monuments, materials and contest of the Roman world starting from concrete
cases of study in the context of the ritual habits, of the architecture and the
urbanism, of the artistic and material culture. Learning of the systems of
classification and philological analysis; methodological problems: quantitative
and qualitative analyses. Reconstruction
of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the specific archaeological
indicators; comparison with the other knowledge systems. Practical laboratories.

Based on the primary
evidence from the material culture and excavations the course introduces to the
monumental architecture of Greco-Roman world: the aim is to explore the
different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in
the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

Learning about urban development process in
historical cities. Providing basic elements on: 1. the inspiring principles in
colonial planning in distinct historical
periods; 2. architectural components in urban framing;

3. technical processing work from the urban project to the accomplished
plan, to now-a-days situation through the post-roman alterations.

Analysing geopolitical context referring to
particularly interesting archaeological environments (from Mediterranean basin to
Central America).

Excavations, surveys and
finds in contexts on land and underwater:
archaeology and archaeometry.

The course is designed
to deepen the study of the archaeological contexts with their finds on land and
underwater, thanks to archaeological and archaeometric methods.

The theoretical
classes are dedicated to thorough thematical examinations

and to the presentation
of archaeological contexts with special reference to Center- South Tyrrhenian
Italy.

Practical classes are foreseen in the
depots of Ancient Ostia and/or at the Museum of Lipari (Eolian Islands) to
study the freights of the ancient shipwrecks.

The students will learn to
classify finds from excavations with archaeological and archaeometric methods.

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

The course is aimed to
present the methodology of the experimental archaeology, its development and
spread in the academy, the connections between the experimental archaeology and
the other archaeological disciplines. Moreover, a key point of the course is to
explain what an “experimental protocol” means and how to apply it for the
interpretation of the archaeological relics.

Analysis of contexts from the Bronze Age and early Iron also according to an anthropological point.

Knowledge and understanding of the main formation
processes of the first sedentary
communities and early hierarchical pre-state societies in the Near
East. Analysis of the regional diversities (cultural, social,
environmental, and economic) that brought to the early urban and state societies. The regions
involved are: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Levant,
Egypt, and Iran.

The aim of this course
is to develop a skilled knowledge of research questions and methodologies in
the study past human-environment interactions, including subsistence and
subsistence change, by using case studies from Italy,
Europe and Mediterranean basin. Students will
be prepared to collect and analyse data using appropriate methods, to develop
critical analysis of arguments, to improve written and oral skills and to
report scientific results to publication standards.

Students will acquire
advanced knowledge of recent developments in Palaeolithic archaeology, with a
focus on food procurement strategies, including the development of hunting
weapons.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of the course is to analyze the Etruscan civilization from the early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with particular regard to the relationship between the city and the territory, the funerary ideology, and the manifestations of the "sacer".

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

The course prepares to
consolidate tools for archaeological analysis. Students will study important
archaeological complexes for the reconstruction of the Medieval society.
Students are guided in a good knowledge of the most important themes in the
actual archaeological research in Italy
and in Europe.

Graphic
surveying systems and vector processing for the study and the virtual
reconstruction of ancient buildings.

Remote sensing in
archaeology, data base, geographic information system.

Educational objectives: basic knowledge of physical methodologies widely used in archaeology: dating methods with radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, spectroscopic methods for the ancient material characterization, methods for the diagnostic imaging. The aim is to give to the students a direct knowledge of the methods discussing the concrete possibility of their use. The objective is to develop in the student critical skills on the use of of physical methods in the archaeological contexts, also with class discussions on specific problems, also proposed by the students themselves.Additional objective is tofamiliarize students with the principles of measure theory.

Both class room lectures
and individual practical work in chemical laboratory are planned. The goal is to
provide the students with basic
knowledge and practice to recognize, by means of chemical techniques as simple
as effective, the nature of a variety of artifacts. In addition the students
will gain an insight on the use of tools like radiocarbon chronology,
palaeodiets and the provenance of the raw materials (minerals and metals, marble, flint, obsidian) traded in the past
throughout the Mediterranean sea.

Demonstrated Knowledge:
Fundamental of designing and querying relational databases. Fundamental of HTML and organizing information into hypertext.

The didactical goal of
the archaeological section of the course “Civiltà Egee”, is represented by the
study of Minoan and Mycenaean civilization, in the wider context of the
Mediterranean area. From the islands (Cyprus, Cyclades) to Anatolia (Hittite
empire), and from Syrian and Palestinian coasts to the Egypt and to the far
routes to Italic coasts; the didactical goal of the philological section of the
course “Civiltà Egee” (channel 2), is the philological interpretation and study
of the Greek Mycenaean texts (II mill. a.C.).

The course aims to
deepen the concepts of Greek language, grammar and metric.

The course objective is to
allow the student a thorough knowledge of the Latin language and literature.

The course aims at providing the students with the basic historical competency to deal with the History of the ancient Near East in its development over more than two millennia and in its geographic and linguistic differences, with the presentation of illustrative case studies.

The student will acquire
a first knowledge of issues and problems
related to the history of the ancient Near East, specifically Mesopotamia in
the third and second millennium BC, with particular attention to the figures of
kings or the female universe.

Analysis of archaeological and linguistic aspects of
Egyptian culture.

Specific knowledge of
the archaeology of Motya, as a case study in Phoenician and Punic Archaeology.

The purpose of the
course is a deepening of the archaeological data and sources of the first
Islamic period, aimed at the reconstruction of the intended use of the
buildings and of the iconographic programs (coinage included).

The purpose of this course is a general reconstruction of the history ofIranfrom the Achaemenid to the Sasanid period, using the aid of primary sources.

The course aims to provide an overview of the most important issues relating to the archeology of the Iranian pre-Islamic world.

The aim of the course is to provide detailed knowledge of the material culture and artistic expression of a particular period in the archaeology of India and Central Asia. Studies aim at providing a critical understanding of the themes and problems discussed, through an extensive analysis of materials and a reconstruction of the history of the studies.

The student acquires the theoretical principles and the methods of the new cultural geography, considered as a way of innovative knowledge production, which integrate, modify and develop the established procedures of the discipline, but also as a key for reading and interpreting the most important cultural, social, economic events and processes of our time at the different geographical scales.

Students reach and improve historical, technical and bibliographical knolewdge in the development of latin writings in ancient and mediaeval age until XVIth century; they should be able to use all types of primary palaeographical sources, and to describe them appropriately. They will introduce to understand historical, cultural and social implications of writing in latin alphabet from late Antiquity to the rise of modern age, and should be familiar with the use of scientific and up-to-date bibliographic sources.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Greek history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

Aim of the course is to provide students with a brief
methodological framework for the study of the discipline and to engage them in
a topic research for which everyone is enabled to make his contribution.

Introduction to a more advanced study of literary and epigraphical texts
in ancient history, and further acquisition of technical and
methodological competence for the study of Roman history and
historiography as well as of modern historiography on the ancient world.

The course is an advanced scientific and methodological expertise in research of Roman epigraphy.

Competence on the basic tools for research in the field of latin epigraphy and Roman institutions and knowledge of the main fields of research with deepening of methodological skills.

The course aims to provide an overview of population in Italy during the first millennium BC, with particular regard to the relations between different cultural areas of the peninsula, of which will be debeated also linguistic aspects, and relations with non-indigenous communities.

The course aims to
introduce the student to understand the history of the object currency, in its
progress in the different cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

The aim of this course is to provide students, through significant cases of Provincial Archaeology, advanced knowledge of the Roman Provincial culture, of relationship between centre and periphery, as well as a framework of the main historical, cultural and religious dynamics regarding the Western and Eastern Provinces. The course will focus on specific topics regarding the Roman Empire, on the urban and domestic Culture, as well as on the Sacred and Funerary space.

Advanced knowledge of methods and procedures to be applied in documenting, analyzing and interpreting monuments, materials and pluristratified contexts of the Classical World starting from case studies in the wider framework of: social and cultural habits, architecture and urbanism, artistic and material culture. Advanced learning of the systems of classification and philological analysis. Evaluation of methodological problems: quantitative and qualitative analyses. Advanced knowledge of procedures to be applied in the reconstruction of the cultural phenomenon on the basis of the relation between archaeological evidence and other kinds of historical sources.