Classical Ceramography
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to refine students' critical ability and stylistic sensitivity in reading Greek ceramics, which represent the main dating tool for archaeological contexts and for decoding cultural meanings.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course students are expected to be able to orient themselves on the main productions and styles of figured Greek pottery, with particular reference to those ceramic classes not addressed in the basic course of Archeology and History of Greek Art, therefore Corinthian, Laconian, East Greek, Cycladic pottery etc.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students are also expected to have acquired a good level of understanding and decoding iconography and to be introduced into the most crucial criteria for identifying painters and workshops.
Applying knowledge and understanding: Students are also expected to have acquired a good level of understanding and decoding iconography and to be introduced into the most crucial criteria for identifying painters and workshops.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
During A.Y. 2023-2024, Part A will be devoted, as usual, to the technical-productive aspects (vase making, firing, kilns, workshop organization, artisan's social space, etc.).
Part B, titled "An Animalier Universe: Animals in the Greek World, Meanings and Systems of Thought," drawing inspiration from a topic addressed in the specific literature only in recent years and briefly previewed in the classroom last year, with great interest from students, aims to explore the meanings of zoomorphic themes on ceramics and in Greek art in general, and to investigate the intense, signifying and pregnant connection the Greeks had with nature and its 'inhabitants.' Specifically, the semantic frameworks of lion, panther, rooster, crab, octopus, hedgehog, drakon, snake and eagle will be addressed, with ample classroom discussion by students as well.
Part C will instead house a visiting professor from a foreign University. More information will be provided in February 2024.
Part B, titled "An Animalier Universe: Animals in the Greek World, Meanings and Systems of Thought," drawing inspiration from a topic addressed in the specific literature only in recent years and briefly previewed in the classroom last year, with great interest from students, aims to explore the meanings of zoomorphic themes on ceramics and in Greek art in general, and to investigate the intense, signifying and pregnant connection the Greeks had with nature and its 'inhabitants.' Specifically, the semantic frameworks of lion, panther, rooster, crab, octopus, hedgehog, drakon, snake and eagle will be addressed, with ample classroom discussion by students as well.
Part C will instead house a visiting professor from a foreign University. More information will be provided in February 2024.
Prerequisites for admission
For more effective and fruitful results, a general competence on the development of Greek art, Greek history and / or on Greek literature is strongly recommended.
Teaching methods
Classes are in-person classes and take place in the classroom. In-depth lectures are scheduled by professors from other Universities and Research Institutes.
Teaching lessons integrated with other master courses equally related to Greek culture (courses in Greek Archeology, Archeology of Magna Graecia and Greek Literature) will be provided for an effectively interdisciplinary approach to matter.
Teaching lessons integrated with other master courses equally related to Greek culture (courses in Greek Archeology, Archeology of Magna Graecia and Greek Literature) will be provided for an effectively interdisciplinary approach to matter.
Teaching Resources
For students attending classes:
Teaching Unit A
- G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, "Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica", Mondadori Università, Milano 2012 (e successive ristampe), capitolo 3, pp. 65-129.
Teaching Unit B
Compulsory for all the students are the essays at nn. 1-2, to which each one should add two more essays to be chosen freely among nn. 3-10.
1) A. Coulié, La céramique grecque aux époques géometrique et orientalisante, Paris 2013, pp. 105-141.
2) A. Harden, Animals in Classical Art, in G. L. Campbell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life, Oxford 2014, pp. 24-60.
On FELINES:
3) C. Lambrugo, Corinto "profumata": Afrodite e la via dell'iris, in L. Grasso, F. Caruso, R. Gigli Patané (a cura di), Sikelika Hiera, Approcci multidisciplinari allo studio del sacro nella Sicilia greca, Atti del Convegno di Studi (Catania CNR-IBAM, 11-12 Giugno 2010), Catania 2020, pp. 383-392.
4) C. Marconi, The raw and the cooked. Scenes of animal fights on Archaic Greek sacred architecture, in "RES" 71/72 (2019), pp. 209-228.
On SNAKE, LIZARD, EAGLE:
5) J.M. Hurwit, Lizards, Lions and the Uncanny in Early Greek Art, in "Hesperia" 75 (2006), pp. 121-136.
6). F. Lissarrague, Ways of Making Sense. Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art, in J.M. Barringer, F. Lissarrague (eds), Images at the Crossroads. Media and Meaning in Greek Art, Edinburgh 2022, pp. 13-38.
7) D. Rodriguez Perez, Guardian Snakes and Combat Myths, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 147-154.
On COCK, other BIRDS, BEES & WASPS:
8) A. Mackay, Figures of Comparison. A Study of the potential for Animal and Bird 'Similes' in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 87-95.
9) A. Pace, M. Vespa, I galli nell'immaginario greco antico (VIII-IV sec. a.C.): prospettive di studio pluridisciplinare tra iconologia e analisi dei testi scritti, in C. Franco, M. Vespa et Alii (eds), Zoomathia. Learning about Animals in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, Siena 2023, pp. 181-216.
10) N. Levin, Bees and Wasps as Shield Devices in Greek Vase-Painting, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 81-85.
All the above mentioned essays will be available in pdf on Ariel website in February 2024.
Teaching Unit C
- H. Philipp, Le caratteristiche delle relazioni fra il santuario di Olimpia e la Magna Grecia, in La Magra Grecia e i grandi santuari della madrepatria, Atti del XXXI Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 4-8 ottobre 1991), Taranto 1992, pp. 30-51.
- A. Scarci, Ergasteria e produzione di armi nei santuari greci. In: Le armi di Athena. Il santuario settentrionale di Paestum, Napoli 2017, 197-205.
- A. D'Antonio, Sull'offerta di armi tra Sicilia e Magna Grecia, in Armi a Kasmenai. Offerte votive dall'area sacra urbana, 2023, pp. 103-110.
All the above mentioned essays will be available in pdf on Ariel website in February 2024.
Exam program for NON-attending students:
The same syllabus as for attending students, to which will be added the reading of:
- "Argilla. Storie di vasi", a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021 (which will be made available in pdf on Ariel site).
For all students: slides of the classes will be available on Ariel web site.
Teaching Unit A
- G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, E. Panero, "Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti, ceramisti e vetrai nell'antichità classica", Mondadori Università, Milano 2012 (e successive ristampe), capitolo 3, pp. 65-129.
Teaching Unit B
Compulsory for all the students are the essays at nn. 1-2, to which each one should add two more essays to be chosen freely among nn. 3-10.
1) A. Coulié, La céramique grecque aux époques géometrique et orientalisante, Paris 2013, pp. 105-141.
2) A. Harden, Animals in Classical Art, in G. L. Campbell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life, Oxford 2014, pp. 24-60.
On FELINES:
3) C. Lambrugo, Corinto "profumata": Afrodite e la via dell'iris, in L. Grasso, F. Caruso, R. Gigli Patané (a cura di), Sikelika Hiera, Approcci multidisciplinari allo studio del sacro nella Sicilia greca, Atti del Convegno di Studi (Catania CNR-IBAM, 11-12 Giugno 2010), Catania 2020, pp. 383-392.
4) C. Marconi, The raw and the cooked. Scenes of animal fights on Archaic Greek sacred architecture, in "RES" 71/72 (2019), pp. 209-228.
On SNAKE, LIZARD, EAGLE:
5) J.M. Hurwit, Lizards, Lions and the Uncanny in Early Greek Art, in "Hesperia" 75 (2006), pp. 121-136.
6). F. Lissarrague, Ways of Making Sense. Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art, in J.M. Barringer, F. Lissarrague (eds), Images at the Crossroads. Media and Meaning in Greek Art, Edinburgh 2022, pp. 13-38.
7) D. Rodriguez Perez, Guardian Snakes and Combat Myths, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 147-154.
On COCK, other BIRDS, BEES & WASPS:
8) A. Mackay, Figures of Comparison. A Study of the potential for Animal and Bird 'Similes' in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 87-95.
9) A. Pace, M. Vespa, I galli nell'immaginario greco antico (VIII-IV sec. a.C.): prospettive di studio pluridisciplinare tra iconologia e analisi dei testi scritti, in C. Franco, M. Vespa et Alii (eds), Zoomathia. Learning about Animals in Ancient and Medieval Cultures, Siena 2023, pp. 181-216.
10) N. Levin, Bees and Wasps as Shield Devices in Greek Vase-Painting, in C. Lang-Auinger, E. Trinkl (Hrgs.), Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Wien 2015, pp. 81-85.
All the above mentioned essays will be available in pdf on Ariel website in February 2024.
Teaching Unit C
- H. Philipp, Le caratteristiche delle relazioni fra il santuario di Olimpia e la Magna Grecia, in La Magra Grecia e i grandi santuari della madrepatria, Atti del XXXI Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 4-8 ottobre 1991), Taranto 1992, pp. 30-51.
- A. Scarci, Ergasteria e produzione di armi nei santuari greci. In: Le armi di Athena. Il santuario settentrionale di Paestum, Napoli 2017, 197-205.
- A. D'Antonio, Sull'offerta di armi tra Sicilia e Magna Grecia, in Armi a Kasmenai. Offerte votive dall'area sacra urbana, 2023, pp. 103-110.
All the above mentioned essays will be available in pdf on Ariel website in February 2024.
Exam program for NON-attending students:
The same syllabus as for attending students, to which will be added the reading of:
- "Argilla. Storie di vasi", a cura di M. Salvadori, M. Baggio, L. Zamparo, Padova 2021 (which will be made available in pdf on Ariel site).
For all students: slides of the classes will be available on Ariel web site.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessement methods consist of an oral test, that is, an interview on the topics of the course. The test aims to highlight students' stylistic ability and chronological knowledge referring to the types of pottery addressed in the classes.
L-ANT/07 - CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Lambrugo Claudia
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