The course provides a comparative overview of the development of political communities and state formations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia between 1000 and 330 BC. Adopting an integrated historical, archaeological, and cultural approach, it examines the main models of political organization, their evolution, and mutual interactions within the broader transformations of the first millennium BC.
Students will acquire analytical tools to understand the diversity of political structures across the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds, the processes of state formation and imperial consolidation, and the cultural and political interactions between East and West.
The course will be taught as 18 meeting of lectures and seminar classes. Lectures will consist in frontal lessons requesting interaction and participation of students.
Seminar classes will consist in classes organized for coopeartive discussion of a paper or some sources assigned to students for reading a week ahead.
- Teacher: MARIACHIARA ANGELUCCI
- Teacher: LORENZO VINCENZO GIACOMO D'ALFONSO
- Teacher: Daniel Fleming