Mon 13-15 Auletta Archeologia (Faculty of Letters)

Thur 9-11 Auletta Archeologia (Faculty of Letters)

 REQUIREMENTS

Key competences concerning
geography, history, and archaeology of Near East are important; knowledge of
Italian, English, Spanish and French is necessary.

PROGRAM
and TARGETS

The Phoenicians in the West

The
course follows the journey of Phoenicians across the Mediterranean along the
trade routes to the West at the beginnings of the first millennium BC. We will
travel together with the Phoenician merchants who founded emporia and cities along the “Route of the Great Islands”, leading
from Phoenicia to the Central and Western Mediterranean. The journey will take
us to Motya, an ancient Phoenician colony in Western Sicily which increases its
political and commercial power in the Central Mediterranean and beyond from the
8^th to the 4^th century BC. At Motya we will analyze the
modalities of interaction, dialogue and coexistence between the newcomers and
local population, discovering a model of exchange that overcomes the dynamics
of trade, and embraces religious traditions, technologies, population, in an out-and-out
system of mutual enrichment. These dynamics unfold in the background of the
historical events that, in the central centuries of the first millennium BC,
involve two other powerful civilizations in Western Mediterranean, the Greeks
and the Etruscans.

Interdisciplinary seminars will be
planned during classes.

The course unit is linked to a
series of Other Educational Activities useful for the acquisition of CFU
(laboratory for cataloging archaeological materials, laboratory for graphic
documentation of archaeological materials, laboratory for photographic
documentation of archaeological materials, excavation at Motya).

TEACHING
METHOD

Classes are taught/online, with the
aid in the classroom of ppt presentations, excavation reports, archaeological
finds. Attendance is mandatory.

FINAL
EVALUATION

The final evaluation consists of an
oral exam with questions will be proposed on the topics discussed during the
lessons and treated in the syllabus. To evaluate the candidate’s performance
will compete the terminology used, the ability to expose the concepts and
classification in the historical-geographical context.

Attendance at lessons and seminars,
active participation in the classroom, knowledge of the indicated syllabus are
fundamental elements for passing the final exam, while useful reasoning and
self-study skills are useful elements.

To pass the exam you must obtain a
mark of not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate to express himself in
an appropriate language, to have acquired sufficient knowledge of the basic
topics presented during the lessons and to be able to orientate himself in the
basic aspects of the discipline.

To achieve a mark of 30/30 cum
laude, the student must instead demonstrate that he has acquired excellent
knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them
in a logical and consistent way, as well as reasoning skills and autonomous
study.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Texts in bibliography and
supplementary available in pdf format will be shared during the course.

Chapters selected of:

C.
Broodbank, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla preistoria alla nascita del mondo
classico, Torino: Einaudi 2015.

S. Tusa, I popoli del grande verde, Roma 2018.

S.
Lancel, Carthage, Brépols 1992.

M.
Gras, P. Rouillard, J. Teixidor, L’universo fenicio, Paris 1995, pp. 4-85.

C.
Doumet-Serhal, Networking patterns of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant
(Archaeology and History in the Lebanon), Beirouth 2008, pp. 2-61; 71-120.