Knowledge of historical and cultural context of Ancient Greek and Roman worlds through the analysis of literary texts and archaeology. Greek literature and Latin literatures through their texts and archaeology.
Block 1. The world of the Homeric poems.
The Bronze Age in the Aegean. Knossos and the Minoan palaces. Schliemann and the
discovery of Troy and Mycenae. The Dark Ages. The Geometric. The Orientalizing
Orientalizing.
Block 2. Classical Greece.
The Archaic period. The 5th century: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. Literature of the
classical period. Socrates. The 4th century: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. Plato and
Aristotle.
Block 3. The Hellenistic world.
Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic kingdoms: architecture, sculpture and ceramics. The
new comedy
Block 4. The awakening of Rome
The archaic monarchy and the origin of Roman urbanism. The Republican period:
architecture, ceramics and plastic arts. The origins of Latin literature: Plautus,
Terence and Cicero. The Republican Forum.
Block 5. The High-Imperial Period
Culture in the Augustan period: architecture and sculpture. Latin literature of the
Augustan period. The Julio-Claudian dynasty: literature, architecture and urbanism. The
plastic arts: painting and mosaic. Latin epigraphy. The art of the Flavian and
Antonine periods. The Latin historiography of the first and second centuries AD. The Imperial Forums.
Block 6. The Late Roman period
The art of the Severan dynasty. The second sophistic. Diocletian: architecture and plastic arts.
arts. Constantine and the Christian empire.