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Course title:
Byzantine Civilization
Module:
U - Byzantine Civilization
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| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
95.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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| Seminari: Seminars: |
0.0 |
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| Laboratori: Laboratories: |
0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
3.0 |
Prerequisites:
Students should have attended the "module 1" of the course and/or have read the connected course texts.
Educational goals:
Large-scale works in Imperial Roman History How were large-scale works commissioned and built during Imperial Roman History? The Heritage of the Republican Past, the influences from the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean and finally the success of Christianity gave specific connotations to infrastructural works as well as mausoleums and places of worship.
Course contents:
Larges-scale works at the time of the Principate: Hellenistic influences, the Roman individualism, the new Roman euergesia. The birth of a new intellectual type: the architect. Large-scale works during the Late Roman Empire, pagan and Christian. Analysis of monuments like Domus Aurea (Nero), Pantheon (Hadrian after Augustus), Christian basilicas in Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople (from Constantine to Justinian).
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Teaching activities:
Lectures with slides and texts.
Assessment:
oral
Test of the student's correct understanding of the course contents and reference texts.
Teaching language:
italian
Other information:
Recommended use of a historical atlas. Attending students: course texts no. 1 to 3. Non-attending students: course texts no. 1 to 4.