Unit ETRUSCOLOGY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005350
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Simona Rafanelli
- Teachers
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- Simona Rafanelli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Simona Rafanelli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/06
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- The object of the course is the knowledge of Etruscan culture and civilization presented, in its fundamental lineaments, through the examination of the main architectural and artistic monuments, pertaining to the spheres of the sacred, civic and funerary, and the categories of artistic artifacts that most represent it. A historical-artistic review correlated through a thread represented by the history of studies that, from the Middle Ages until today, has accompanied the path of knowledge of this peculiar civilization that still reveals many aspects to be investigated and deepened.
- Reference texts
- In the absence of a single reference text suitable for providing the possibility of a comprehensive study of Etruscan civilization, the teaching material is provided in full by the lecturer to attending and nonattending students and consists of a series of handouts taken from the most recent texts (textbooks, monographs, Conference Proceedings, scholarly article) concerning the diverse range of topics related to Etruscology.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide a basic preparation on the subject of Etruscology to all interested students who, in the manner of attendance and participation in the course most suitable and convenient to them, aim to attain a knowledge of the fundamental lineaments of Etruscan culture, and at the same time hopes to arouse a historical identity awareness in the learners, transmitting loto love and sensitizing them to attention to a subject that lies at the origins of the history and tradition of the central-Italic territory where the University of Perugia itself is located.
- Prerequisites
- There is no special requirement for students to enroll and participate in the course, except for interest, or passion, or curiosity aroused by the subject of Etruscology !
- Teaching methods
- The teaching methodology inherent in the course comes to include, during the duration of the course itself or outside of it, alongside the face-to-face lectures/meetings, also cultural excursions, combined with guided tours by the lecturer, to the main Italian museums with an archaeological and historical-artistic vocation and to the archaeological sites of greatest interest in relation to the subject of Etruscology and the issues addressed during the course. Accompanying the same is the opportunity for students to actively participate in excavation campaigns conducted in necropolis or in the Etruscan-Roman settlement of the site of the ancient Etruscan city of Vetulonia (GR).
- Other information
- To students with disabilities or DSA, for any information: https:/letters.unipg.it/home/disability-and-dsa
- Learning verification modality
- Regarding the mode of preparation for the exam to be taken at the end of the course, students are required, in addition to a general knowledge of the subject obtained from the study of the didactic material delivered during the course in parallel with the lectures (which is also shared by non-attending students) a specific in-depth study of a topic/problem of a historical/archaeological nature, or a monument/class of monuments/other identified as an object of particular interest by the students themselves, to be presented through oral exposition, which may be associated with a written report, possibly accompanied by a presentation P. P.
- Extended program
- The main purpose of the basic course in Etruscology is to bring students closer to the knowledge of a people, that of the Rasenna, or Rasna, as according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus the Etruscans called themselves, which has the roots of its history and traditions in the land of the so-called Etruria propria, located in the center of the Peninsula in the Tuscan-Umbrian-Lazio territorial space between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the courses of the Tiber and Arno rivers. The six-week space of the course allows only to highlight the essential lineaments of historical, cultural and artistic development of this civilization, which, in the city of Perugia itself, seat of the University Athenaeum, has left important monumental vestiges and artistic handicrafts housed in the prestigious headquarters of the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria (the object, among others planned, of a guided tour with the lecturer within the course). Electing as the main thread of the synthetic presentation of the Etruscan civilization the history of studies, started already in ancient times and conducted with ever-increasing interest from the Middle Ages up to the Contemporary, will be addressed during the course the different themes in which the historical events of the Etruscan people are articulated over the ten centuries that, heads the source of Censorino, mark between the ninth century BC. C. and the age of Augustus, its cultural, ideological, religious, and artistic evolution, translated the latter into the production of handicrafts and maximally into its most valuable expressions that serve as a support to the figurative manifestations, the main source, through iconographic and iconological study, of knowledge of this extraordinary civilization placed at the origins of our Italian history.