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B026278 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT NEAR EAST
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2021-22
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/01 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2021 ⇒ 03/12/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B030912 - STORIA DEL VICINO ORIENTE ANTICO
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY AND CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE (ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES)
Curriculum BENI ARCHEOLOGICI
B030912 - STORIA DEL VICINO ORIENTE ANTICO
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY AND CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE (ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES)
Curriculum BENI ARCHEOLOGICI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to provide an overview of the history of the ancient Near East from the birth of writing to the beginning of the Hellentistic period.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Federico Giusfredi, Il Vicino Oriente antico, Carocci 2020
Mario Liverani, Oriente Occidente, Laterza 2021
Further reading will be assigned and discussed during the lessons;
It will be possible to agree alternative texts on specific periods with the teacher.
The power-point presentations, maps, images and articles discussed during the lessons will be made available on the moodle platform at the end of the lessons.
Mario Liverani, Oriente Occidente, Laterza 2021
Further reading will be assigned and discussed during the lessons;
It will be possible to agree alternative texts on specific periods with the teacher.
The power-point presentations, maps, images and articles discussed during the lessons will be made available on the moodle platform at the end of the lessons.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to give to the students the tools for studying the history of the Ancient Near East through analysis
of written sources.
Knowledge and understanding:
The student will acquire the knowledge of the main themes and phenomena of Near Eastern history and the knowledge of the main tools and methods of the discipline.
Applied knowledge and understanding: The student will be able to use sources, methods and acquired tools for simple autonomous research and will be able to contextualise the phenomena studied in an appropriate way.
of written sources.
Knowledge and understanding:
The student will acquire the knowledge of the main themes and phenomena of Near Eastern history and the knowledge of the main tools and methods of the discipline.
Applied knowledge and understanding: The student will be able to use sources, methods and acquired tools for simple autonomous research and will be able to contextualise the phenomena studied in an appropriate way.
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
Lectures with power-point projections; analysis and discussion of specific topics during the lectures.
Further information
Students are requested to register on the moodle platform well in advance.
Type of Assessment
The knowledge learned in class and in textbooks will be verified with an oral exam. The questions will focus on the entire program. Students will have the help of geographic maps and images discussed during the lessons.
Course program
The course will be as follows:
1. Introduction: geography, chronology and history of studies.
2. The ancient Bronze Age: from the first urbanization to the III dynasty of Ur.
3. The Middle Bronze Age: from the crisis of the second urbanization to ancient Hittite Anatolia.
4. The late Bronze Age: from the reign of Mittani to Kassite Babylonia.
5. The Iron Age: the Levant, the formation of the great empires up to the Hellenistic age.
1. Introduction: geography, chronology and history of studies.
2. The ancient Bronze Age: from the first urbanization to the III dynasty of Ur.
3. The Middle Bronze Age: from the crisis of the second urbanization to ancient Hittite Anatolia.
4. The late Bronze Age: from the reign of Mittani to Kassite Babylonia.
5. The Iron Age: the Levant, the formation of the great empires up to the Hellenistic age.