Università Roma Tre

The course is intended to provide a basic knowledge for the understanding of the Etruscan the other civilizations of the Italian peninsula of the 1st millennium BC, following their historical development and highlighting their relationships, both within the peninsula itself and in the Euro-Mediterranean context. The first module is devoted to some methodological issues and to the formative phases of this system, up to the emergence of formalized political-administrative and cultural structures, between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC.

The second module of the course is devoted to the study of the civilizations of pre-Roman Italy (especially of the middle-Tyrrhenian region), in the period between the stabilization of the city structures (late 6th to early 5th century BC) and the end of the pre-Roman political-cultural identities, which merged into Roman Italy in the 1st century BC. The direct knowledge of some of the most relevant Etruscan archaeological monuments will be an integral part of the course; we will visit the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia and some other museums and sites.