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(curriculum Italiano/inglese e pubblicazioni dell'ultimo triennio)
The Department of Ancient World Studies (“Dipartimento di scienze dell’antichità”) belonging to “Facoltà di Filosofia, Lettere, Scienze umanistiche e Studi orientali” was officially founded on July 1, 2010, in connection with a general restructuring of the Departments and Faculties at Rome’s “La Sapienza” University.
The members of the new department were previously part of three different departments, namely the Department for historical, archaeological and anthropological studies of the Classical world (“Dipartimento di scienze storiche, archeologiche, antropologiche dell’antichità”), the former Department of Greek and Latin philology (“Dipartimento di Filologia greca e Latina”), and the Department of Eastern studies (“Dipartimento di Studi orientali”). The reorganization means that at “La Sapienza” the study of the ancient world now includes also Classical philology and literature, and philology, archaeology, history and languages of the Middle East.
In the new Department of Ancient World Studies there are over 90 Faculty members who work in 25 different scholarly fields which in geographical terms span the area from the westernmost part of Europe to the Near and Middle East and chronologically cover the period from prehistory to the Byzantine era. There is even an extension, at least as far as archaeology is concerned, into the Christian and Islamic Middle Ages and all the way to the Humanistic period, when Classical antiquity, which had never faded away completely, was rediscovered.
The department owns a rich library which currently is divided in nine sections. In addition, there are four archaeological collections connected to the Department: the Museum of the Origins of Civilization (“Museo delle Origini”), the Museum of the Near East (“Museo del Vicino Oriente”), the Museum of Etruscan and Italic antiquities (“Museo delle Antichità Etrusche e Italiche”), and the Museum of Classical Art, which contains plaster casts of famous works (“Museo dell’Arte Classica-Gipsoteca”).
A valued part of the department are some thirty staff members who are responsible for technical and administrative tasks: some are engaged at the central level (as Adminstrative and Didactic secretaries), while others are working in connection with the five sections in which the department is divided.
The members of the Department are engaged in a large number of cultural projects and a rich variety of research and excavations, individually or working in teams. The links provided by this site can capture part of this ongoing vast spectrum of activities.
The Department of Ancient World Studies will place special emphasis on the training in Archaeology and in Classical languages and literature.
