ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GREEK COLONIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT088

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in CULTURAL HERITAGE

Disciplinary Sector:

CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MENOZZI Oliva

DI VALERIO EUGENIO

DI ANTONIO MARIAGIORGIA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Not existing. Just as a suggestion, it is better to choose to attend to the lectures of this exam only after having attended to the course of Greek and Roman Archaeology and Art History

Objectives

The main aim of the course is to give to the students a general pictur of the Greek word behind Greece, of the relationships between Greek and indigenous peoples, to approach the subject without geo.political barriers, and to see the cultural interactions between peoples of ancient Mediterranean.

Contents

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.

Extended Syllabus

The course is organized in different sections
-A first section, consisting of about 5/7 lectures, is focusing the general background concerning the Aegean Cultures and their frequentation of the ancient Mediterranean context. The main topics will be: myths, literature, archaeological sources, with focus on the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age. There will be Historical Geography as a main frame, and focus on sites and material cultures relating to Mycenaean, Cycladic, Cypriot cultures. Also sea trade, sea network, wreaks and sources dating to the bronze periods will be analysed.

- a second section, of about 5/6 lectures will be dedicated to the pre-colonization and to the preliminary steps of the Greek colonization, including the phenomenon of the emporia with archaeological examples, the geo-political context of these preliminary phases.

- a third section, of about 10 lectures, is dedicated to the typologies and the issues of the I and II colonization, from the historical, archaeological and geographical point of view. The main topics will be: the general background, the relationship between colonies and 'metropoleis', local communities and Greeks between 'ibridization' an conflict, relationship between chora and polis in colonial context, distribution of the 'kleroi', organization of the urban contexts, of the territory and of the natural resources, position of the cemeteries and funerary rituals.

- a fourth section, of about 20/25 lectures is dedicated to specific contexts, which are used as exaples, in order to give to the students an idea of the methodological approach and of the technical terminology of the subject. Several areas of the 'Greece overseas' will be examined, and among them: the oriental colonies, through some examples and issues, also in relating the Persian domination; the Greek colonies and emporia in North Africa, as Naukratis and the 'Egyptian donation' of a colony, the Cyrenaican colonies and sub-foundations; the Greeks in the Black Sea, and the exploitation of the agricultural sources; Cyprus as crossing point among sea trade and colonization; Adriatic colonies, Magna Graecia and Sicily and relationship with indigenous and Punic context; Phocean trade and colonian choices.

Recommended Bibliography

- BOARDMAN, J., Greeks Overseas, Oxford (there are several editions).
- BROODBANK, C., The making of the Middle Sea, Cambridge 2013.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars, conferences and meetings with scholars also of other universities.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

oral exam, aiming to attest the level of knowledge of the subject for the student, as well as the capacity of the student to understand the connections, both from the dia-chronic and thematic point of view. The exam will be based on several thematic questions, which have been illustrated during the lectures, and specific questions on subjects relating to the books and papers indicated for the exam. Then, the student will illustrate more in detail and with a more critical approach a specific colonial context wich has been presented during the lectures or illustrated in one of the texts or the papers.

Contacts/More Information

Also the basis of ancient historical geography, mapping and cartography will be given to the students during the courses with the ppt slides.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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