Centre d'archéologie romaine: Rome et les Provinces

The study of roman archaeology and history of art is a context of the search in report with antiquity that is very interesting, but also a big complexity. In first time, space and time are the dimensions particularly huge if we thing to Roma: an empire that, at the beginning of the IInd century a. C., went from the Persic Gulf to actual Irak, from the Atlantic ocean to Sahara desert and fields of Scotland; at this add a millenary history that, conventionally, had beginning at the middle of the VIIth century b. C., and ended in Occident in 476 a. C., in Orient in 1453, year of the conquest of Constantinople by Turks.

It’s evident that, in the panorama so large, it can be a lot of searches: archaeology, iconography, iconology, material culture, archaeological fields. In the department of archaeology and history of art from UCL, there are possibilities of studies in all this sectors, and particularly, under the direction of the Prof. Marco CAVALIERI, it’s possible to take part of an archaeological field in Italy (San Gimignano, Siena).

The tradition of the roman archaeology study is present a UCL for a long time, but today, thanks to collaborations with Italian search institutes and universities (superintendence of Toscana, University of Florence, University of Naples “Federico II”, University of Parma), students can have new possibilities more targeted of study and formation, in perspective of a realisation of a professional curriculum to assure the serious and articulated preparations like asked by the Bologna reform.

Seeing that the sector of roman archaeology, like we said, is enough vast, the courses articulate, whether the chronological points of view (archaic Roma, republican Roma, imperial Roma, late antiquity), whether the geographical points of view (city of Roma, roman Italy, roman provinces) to supply the most huge cadre, relative of a unique civilisation, but with multiple cultures, languages and nations, that in century were included in its empire.

In a formation like this, more that archaeology and history of art, the knowledge and study of Latin language and culture will also be fundamentals, so the sources historical literary analysis and Latin epigraphy; but we also search to show how Roma is in the same time a component of a panorama more articulated, this of the Mediterranean sea, where Greece, Great Greece, Etruscan and Punic world plays a fundamental role to the comprehension of the same roman civilisation.