KLMgrB67 When the Nile flows to West. "Egyptomanies" in Greek and Roman art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Elisabetta Maria Gagetti, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Eliška Kazdová, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course the students should be able to be acquainted with: • the rediscovery of Ancient Egypt for Western Europe • the idea of the remote antiquity of Egypt already for the Greeks • the use of Pygmies and Blacks in Greek and Roman art • the Hellenistic history of art in Egypt • the modern debates on “new” Greek papyruses: the querelle on the case of the “Papyrus of Artemidorus” • the vogue of Egyptian subjects in Roman art: the ages of Augustus and Hadrian • the transfer of obelisks from Egypt to Rome, Augustan age to Late Antiquity
Syllabus
  • Subjects of the lessons (ten 2-hour lessons): 1. From the top of these pyramids, fourty centuries are looking at you! 2. Pygmies and other Blacks in Attic vase painting 3. Egypt after the Pharaohs: Alexandria 4. The many lives of the “Papyrus of Artemidorus” 5. A river for a kingdom: the Nilotic mosaic from Palestrina 6. Isis: a goddess for everybody 7. After Actium: Roman Egyptomany 8. Roman pyramids 9. Egypt in Tivoli: Villa Adriana 10. The obelisks of Rome
Literature
    recommended literature
  • • E. Salza Prina Ricotti, La ricerca della tomba di Antinoo a Villa Adriana, in “RendPontAc”, 75, 2002-2003, pp. 113-144.
  • • H. Fragaki, Des topia à l'utopie. Le rôle de l'Egypte dans la peinture paysagiste romaine, in AntK, 51, 2008, pp. 96-121.
  • • M. de Vos, L'egittomania in pitture e mosaici romano-campani della prima età imperiale (Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, 84), Leiden.
    not specified
  • HINTERHÖLLER, Monika. Das Nilmosaik von Palestrina und die Bildstruktur eines geographischen Grossraums. Versuche zur möglichen Rekonstruktion, geographischen Interpretation und den Formen der perspektivischen Raumerschliessung. Römische Historische Mitteilungen. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaf, 2009, 51/2009, p. 15-130, 115 pp. ISSN 0080-3790. info
  • DASEN, Véronique. D'un monde à l'autre : la chasse des pygmées dans l'iconographie impériale. In Chasses antiques : pratiques et représentations dans le monde gréco-romain (IIIe s. av. - IVe s. apr. J.-C.) : actes du colloque international de Rennes (Université Rennes II, 20-21 septembre 2007). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009, p. 215-233, 18 pp. info
  • FRAGAKI, Hélène. Des topia à l'utopie. Le rôle de l'Egypte dans la peinture paysagiste romaine. Antike Kunst. Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst, 2008, vol. 51, p. 96-121. ISSN 0003-5688. info
  • CANFORA, Luciano. Il papiro di Artemidoro. Edited by Luciano Bossina. 1a ed. Roma: Laterza, 2008, x, 523. ISBN 9788842085218. info
  • DI MEO, Chiara. La piramide di Caio Cestio e il cimitero acattolico del Testaccio: trasformazione di un'immagine tra vedutismo e genius loci. Roma: Palombi, 2008, 221 pp. ISBN 88-6060-136-3. info
  • SCHRIJVERS, Petrus Hermanus. A litterary view on the Nile mosaic at Praeneste. In Nile into Tiber :Egypt in the Roman world : proceedings of the IIIrd international conference of Isis studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, May 11-14 2005. Leiden: Brill, 2007, p. 223-239. ISBN 90-04-15420-5. info
  • MEYBOOM, Paul G.P. and Miguel John VESRLUYS. The meaning of dwarfs in Nilotic scenes. In Nile Into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World : Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, May 11-14, 2005. Leiden: Brill, 2007, p. 170-208, 38 pp. ISBN 90-04-15420-5. info
  • CLARKE, John R. Three uses of the Pygmy and the Aethiops at Pompeii. Decorating, "othering" and warding off demons. In Nile Into Tiber: Egypt in the Roman World : Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, May 11-14, 2005. Leiden: Brill, 2007, p. 155-169, 14 pp. ISBN 90-04-15420-5. info
  • GALLAZZI, C and S SETTIS. Le tre vite del Papiro di Artemidoro. Voci e sguardi dall’Egitto greco-romano. Milano: Electa, 2006. ISBN 88-370-4130-6. info
  • ADEMBRI, Benedetta and Zaccaria MARI. Suggestioni egizie a Villa Adriana. Milano: Electa, 2006. ISBN 88-370-4621-9. info
  • CIAMPINI, Emanuele Marcello. Gli obelischi iscritti di Roma. Roma: Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 2004, 196 pp. ISBN 978-88-240-3442-5. info
  • MARI, Zaccaria. L'Antinoeion di Villa Adriana. Rendiconti della Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 2003, 75/2003, 2002-2003, p. 145-186, 41 pp. ISSN 1019-9500. info
  • SALZA PRINA RICOTTI, Eugenia. La ricerca della tomba di Antinoo a Villa Adriana. Rendiconti Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. 2002, LXXV, No 75, p. 113-144. info
  • WALKER, Susan and Peter HIGGS. Cleopatra: Regina d'Egitto. Milano: Electa, 2000, 192 pp. ISBN 88-435-7659-3. info
  • Musée du Petit Palais, Association Paris Musées and Musée du Petit Palais, Association Paris Musées. La Gloire d'Alexandrie. Paris: Paris-Musées Association Francaise d Action Artistique, 1998, 336 pp. ISBN 2-87900-398-9. info
  • ARSLAN, Ermanno A. Iside: Il mito, il mistero, la magia. Milano: Electa, 1997, 726 pp. ISBN 88-435-5968-0. info
  • VOS, Mariette de. L'egittomania in pitture e mosaici romano-campani della prima età imperiale (Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, 84). Leiden: Brill Academic Pub, 1997, 107 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-06233-7. info
  • COARELLI, Filippo. La pompé di Tolomeo Filadelfo e il mosaico nilotico di Palestrina. Ktema. Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch, 1990, 15/1990, p. 225-251, 26 pp. ISSN 0221-5896. info
  • SNOWDEN, Frank M. Blacks in antiquity. Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman experience. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971, 364 pp. ISBN 0-674-07626-5. info
Teaching methods
Lessons with PowerPoint presentations (in English)
Assessment methods
Assessment Written examination: multiple choice test (in English; in particular cases only, after a previous written request to the teacher, a Czech version of the test can be supplied) • Ten questions about an image – already seen during the lessons – each one with three questions (of which only one is correct), according to the subjects of the lessons Requirements for the test: • Knowledge of the contents of the lessons • The reading of some texts in literature is suggested
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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