Università Roma Tre

The course will address the following main topics: the archaeological foundations of the study of the civilizations of pre-Roman Italy; the definition of an Etruscan culture and its correlations with other neighboring cultures; the cultural aspects of the Etruscan world and their articulations in space and time; Etruscan art and handicraft from the beginnings to the Archaic age; the epigraphic and linguistic evidence; the political-cultural mosaic of Italy in the 1st millennium BC.

G. Bartoloni (ed.), Introduzione all’etruscologia, Hoepli, Milano, 2012 (and following reprints): chapters1, 3-6, 8-12.
M. Cristofani (ed.), Etruschi: una nuova immagine, Giunti, Firenze, 1985 (and following reprints): pp. 33-72.

The course will address the following main topics: Etruscan art and handicraft after the Archaic period; the epigraphic and linguistic evidence; changes in the political-cultural mosaic of Italy after the mid-1st millennium BC; the historical, social and cultural context of the political unification of the peninsula under Roman rule.

G. Bartoloni (ed.), Introduzione all’etruscologia, Hoepli, Milano, 2012 (and following reprints): chapters1, 3-6, 8-12.
M. Cristofani (ed.), Etruschi: una nuova immagine, Giunti, Firenze, 1985 (and following reprints): pp. 33-72.