The art and culture of the people of Northern Italy known as the Etruscans, with special attention to their relationship with the Greek world and their role in the development of Rome as a city.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students are required to direct seminar sessions and write more extensive research papers.
Athena Title
The Etruscans and Early Rome
Prerequisite
CLAS 1000 or CLAS 1000E or CLAS 1000H or CLAS 1010 or CLAS 1010E or CLAS 1010H or CLAS 1020 or CLAS 1020E or CLAS 1020H or CLAS 3000 or CLAS 3010 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015 or CLAS(ANTH) 3015E or CLAS 3030 or CLAS 3040 or CLAS3050 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to describe and explain the major features of the cultures of the Bronze Age Levant, Mesopotamia, and the Greek mainland, and the impact that these cultures had on the less culturally and technologically developed cultures of northern Italy.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to examine and discuss the relationships between the culturally sophisticated Greek and Phoenician traders and the relatively less culturally sophisticated but wealthy people of Etruria.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to examine and discuss the relationship between the newly empowered Etruscans and the fledgling Latin city of Rome on the Tiber.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to describe the archeological techniques that have been historically used on Etruscan and Roman sites, and to assess scholarly reconstructions of the beliefs, values, and lifestyle of a culture which has left no written records.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to assemble various categories of evidence for the Etruscans and early Rome, and to produce writing appropriate to the subject matter of the course and to the disciplines of Classics and Classical Archaeology, using their collected evidence.
Topical Outline
Bronze-age cultures of the eastern Mediterranean
Bronze-age exploration of Italy
The Levant and Mesopotamia after 1000 BC
The Villanovans
Early Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily
Orientalizing: The contact between Greeks and Etruscans
Caere
Tarquinii and wall painting
Veii
Chiusi
Populonia and the northern coast
Murlo
Bologna and other points north of the Arno
Writing and religion
Early Rome - beginnings
Early Rome - the Etruscan contribution
Institutional Competencies
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
