The course aims to provide the students with the necessary means to identify and understand the features of the monumental categories in Greece and Rome.

During classes the lecturer will show images and research material in order to provide the means to recognize the essential features of greek and roman monumental categories.

The course will focus on the following topics:

- introduction to Greek and Roman art

- the birth of Greek Agorà

- public buildings on the Agorai: Bouleuterion, Pritaneion. Ekklesiasterion

- Athen's Agorà during the centuries

- the house in Greece: the most ancient housing clusters - Antissa and Nichoria

- the house development: Atene, Egina, Delfi e Olinto

- introduction to roman city planning and construction industry

- the Roman Forum: the most ancient buildings

- the evolution of the Roman Forum

- the Roman Basilica

- the triumphal arch

- the Imperial Fora: the Forum of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva, the Templum Pacis, the Forum and the market of Traianus, the "Colonna traiana"

- provincial Fora: the most important examples

- the house in the roman world

- the most ancient housing clusters: Palatino, Tarquinia, Luni, Murlo

- houses at Pompei: from the "Casa del Chirurgo" to the "Casa del Fauno"

- houses at Ostia: the birth of the "Condominium" anf of the "facade"

- funeral monuments in the roman world

The students will deepen the personal knowledge of the features ofprovincial roman art and will increase the methodological background of the discipline and its scientific language

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Seminars and educational journeys will be planned with students.The teaching material will be available in the library of the Ex Istituto di Archeologia. The lecturer will also provide additional research material during classes.

Teaching

Frontal lectures supported by PowerPoints presentations

Course books

A. GIULIANO, Urbanistica delle città greche, Ed. Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1966; E. GRECO - M. TORELLI, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il mondo greco, Ed. Laterza, Bari, 1983; D. MERTENS, Città e monumenti dei Greci d'Occidente. Dalla colonizzazione alla crisi di fine V secolo a.C., Ed. «L'Erma» di Bretschneider, Roma, 2006; E. LIPPOLIS, M. LIVADIOTTI, G. ROCCO, Architettura greca. Storia e monumenti del mondo della polis dalle origini al V secolo. Ed. Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2007, pp. 111-117; 172-175; 273-278; 417-419; 429-438.); F. PESANDO, La casa dei greci, Milano, 1989. P.GROS,L'architettura romana dagli inizi del III sec.a.C. alla fine dell'alto impero. I monumenti pubblici,Varese, 2001; J. C. BALTY, Curia Ordinis, Ed. Académie Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1991; F. COARELLI, Guida archeologica di Roma, Ed. Mondadori, Milano, 2004 - o qualsiasi altra edizione; E. DE ALBENTIIS, La casa dei romani, Ed. Longanesi, Milano, 1990; J. PERCIVAL, The roman villa, Londra, 1976; F. DIOSONO, Collegia. Le associazioni professionali nel mondo romano, Roma, 2007; H.VON HESBERG, I sepolcri romani e la loro architettura, Milano, 1994; J. M. C. TOYNBEE, Morte e sepoltura nel mondo romano, Roma, 1993; VITRUVIO, De architectura, a cura di Pierre Gros, traduzione e commento di Antonio Corso e Elisa Romano, Ed. Einaudi, Torino, 1997. 

The lecturer will also provide additional research material during classes.

Assessment

Oral examination

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Students unable to attend lessons are invited to contact the teacher.