Unit CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Course
Italian, classical studies and european history
Study-unit Code
GP005347
Curriculum
Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
Teacher
Gian Luca Grassigli
Teachers
  • Gian Luca Grassigli
Hours
  • 36 ore - Gian Luca Grassigli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ANT/07
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian language
Contents
Methodologies of investigation of the collective imagination of classical antiquity - Symbolic production system - Image and literature -Dynamics of the visual system in the culture of the classical world
Reference texts
G.L. Grassigli, L'iconografia di Licurgo: iniziazione e trionfo dionisiaco, in Ostraka 4, 1995, pp. 229-248.
G.L. Grassigli, La fede di Astion. Per un'interpretazione del Cratere di Derveni, in Ostraka, 9, 1999, p. 99-143.G.L. Grassigli - M. Menichetti, Lo scudo e lo specchio. Forme della catoptromanzia, in "Le perle e il filo. A Mario Torelli per i suoi settanta anni", Osanna ed., Potenza 2007, 147-177.
M. Menichetti, Le armi magiche della guerra e della seduzione, in Incidenza dell'antico, 7, 2011, 137-157.F. Careri, La fabbrica degli affetti.La Gerusalemme Liberata dai Carracci al Tiepolo, Il Saggiatore 2010.F. Lissarrague, Le temps de boucliler, ed. on lineFurther texts will be indicated during the course
Educational objectives
Good knowledge of the imagination of the ancient world and the system of its functioning - Ability to decode texts and images of the ancient world in their interrelation - Basic knowledge of the mechanisms of symbolic construction
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the art history of the Greek and Roman world
Teaching methods
Lectures - reading and commentary of images and literary pieces
Learning verification modality
oral examination
Extended program
On the basis of a series of mythical stories and figurative representations, the role of the shield and mirror in the symbolic production system of the classical world will be investigated
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