Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze age: myths, literary evidence and archaeological sources.
Maritime routes, shipping and maritime archaeology from the Bronze age to to the Iron age: wreaks, sources and iconography.
The problem of the Pre-Colonization. The phenomenon of the 'emporia': some archaeological examples. The phases and the contexts oof provevance of the Greek colonization. Forms and mechnaisms of 'Hellenization' and 'Hybridization' of poleis and chorai.
The eastern colonies: examples and features. Greeks in north Africa: meaning and sub-colonization. The Greeks in the Black Sea: the rural exploitation of the chora. Cyprus as crossing point of cultures, peoples, ideas and trades. The Greeks in the Adriatic area.
The main areas of the colonization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. The relationship with the Carthaginians.
Greek and local populations: the impact of the Hellenization and the role of the local substratus.
From huts to palaces: the forms of housing. The houses of the gods: the role of the sanctuaries for the colonial territories. The necropolis of the colonies: different forms of auto-representation and ethnic definition.