Università Roma Tre

Course 2020-2021 title: The landscape of the Greek polis. The course begins with an introduction on traditional and new trends in the study of Mediterranean History and Archaeology. Afterwards, it deals with the archaeology of the Greek landscape and in particular the archaeology of the polis in relation to its territory (chora). The following topics will be examined: the human settlement choices from the Late Bronze Age to the Geometric period; the emergence of the polis with special interest in the spatial dynamics underlying the polis system; the impact of Greek cities on the environment in regional and micro-regional contexts; the the economy and the exploitation of natural resources; the inner spatial layout of the Greek cities, with particular attention to the relationships between urban spaces and civic-social meanings and the urban space-syntax; housing archaeology and the evolution of the polis in the Hellenistic period; the relationship between access to the city and the road network; the rural dimension of the territory (chora) in its essential union with the city (asty); the role of satellite settlements; the Greek city in the Roman times and the changes in the territorial structure in the mid-term.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY:
C.Broodbank 'Il Mediterraneo: dalla preistoria alla nascita del mondo classico', piccola biblioteca Einaudi: pp.15-81, pp.524-545, (pp.573-584 non attending students only)
D.Abulafia 'Il grande mare: storia del Mediterraneo', Mondadori: pp.9-17, (77-233 non attending students only)
E. Farinetti, 'I paesaggi in archeologia: analisi e interpretazione': paesaggi urbani 3.2 - paesaggi rurali 3.1 - paesaggi del pastoralismo 3.6 e 3.7 - Le camere di insediamento 4.2
C. Ampolo, Elementi costitutivi e origine della città greca. 1996.
L.Caliò 'Asty. Studi sulla città greca', Quazar: cap.1-2-8 (4, 9 e 10 non attending students only)
O. Belvedere 'Il fenomeno urbano nel mondo greco' e L. Caliò 'La città ellenistica' https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/il-fenomeno-urbano-nel-mondo-greco_%28Il-Mondo-dell%27Archeologia%29/
G. Daverio Rocchi: frontiere e confini nella Grecia antica, 7-17
E.Greco 'Archeologia della Magna Grecia', cap.4

ADDITIONAL READING:
F.Braudel 'Il Mediterraneo: lo spazio, la storia, gli uomini, le tradizioni', Bompiani: pp.9-157
M. Giangiulio, La formazione della civiltà greca. 2007.