ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ROMAN PROVINCES
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- EMANUELE VACCARO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ANT/07
Training objectives
- The course aims at providing the students with a knowledge of:
• what a Roman Province was and the varied and complex releationships between Rome and its Provinces;
• Roman army, conquest and frontiers;
• Sicily, the earliest province: changes between the late Republic and the imperial period.
• Britannia: urban and rural landscapes in the periphery;
• Cisalpine and Alpine ‘provinces’: overall picture;
• production and trade in the Roman provinces.
Some lectures will be offered by scholars with an experties on Roman Provinces in compresence with the Professor (max 8 hours out of 30).
Thus, the course will provide the students with the following skills:
• the integration of different research methods to the understanding of Roman Provinces;
• the contextualisation of political events, settlement and economic patterns, and production in the Roman Provinces
• the use of archaeological bibliography (also in English). Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Roman history and of the geography of the Roman world; basic knowledge of English.
Course programme
- The course will include an introductory part focusing on the formation and administration of the Roman provinces. In addition to these topics, the organization of the Roman army and the system of defence of the frontiers will be discussed. The introductive part will be followed by the analysis of several case-studies: Sicily (the first Roman province since 227 BC), Britannia (conquered in AD 43), Cisalpine Gaul and the Apine Provinces. Through these examples, the course aims at presenting and discussing urban landscapes, countryside, society, infrastructures, production and trade in the Roman provinces.
Didactic methods
- Thirty hours of frontal lectures. Lectures will be delivered by the Professor from the University of Trento or, given the COVID emergency, from his own place. They will be transmitted by videoconference so that students from all the universities will be able to attend them remotely.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam aims to evaluate the level of knowledge of the points listed in the first part of this syllabus. Oral exam will consist of questions concerning the topics presented and discussed over the course. As part of the exam, students will be shown images of sites, monuments and objects; these will need to be identified and discussed in detail. Oral exam in Trento only.
Reference texts
- All the materials presented and discussed over the course and the following bibliography:
ADMINISTRATION OF ROMAN PROVINCES:
JACQUES F., SCHEID J. 1999 (or other editions). Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia e religione. Roma-Bari: Laterza. ONLY chapter entitled "L'influenza romana sull'impero", pp. 207-265 (1999 edition).
BRITANNIA
1. SALWAY P. 1993. The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ONLY pp. 368-468.
2. GOLDSWORTHY A. 2018. Il Vallo di Adriano. Gorizia: èStoria. STUDY ONLY from p. 35 to p. 95.
ROMAN ARMY
BREEZE D.J. 2019. L’esercito romano. Bologna: Il Mulino
SICILY
SORACI C. 2016. La Sicilia romana. Roma: Carocci Editore.
CISALPINE GAUL
MAGGI S. 2011. 1.2 Gallia Cisalpina, in G. Bejor, M.T. Grassi, S. Maggi, F. Slavazzi (eds), Arte e Archeologi delle province romane. Milano: Mondadori Università: pp. 56-71.
PROVINCE ALPINE
SLAVAZZI F. 2011. 1.3. Le province alpine, in G. Bejor, M.T. Grassi, S. Maggi, F. Slavazzi (eds), Arte e Archeologi delle province romane. Milano: Mondadori Università: pp. 72-77.
RAETIA ET VINDELICIA
MAGGI S. 2011. 2.1.1. Raetia et Vindelicia, in G. Bejor, M.T. Grassi, S. Maggi, F. Slavazzi (eds), Arte e Archeologi delle province romane. Milano: Mondadori Università: pp. 121-122.
NB: Other readings may be suggested during the course.
