-The Villanova culture and the Etruscan forerunners.
-The republican period, Augustus and the idea of monarchy, the imperial period

-The most important categories of Roman art (portrait, sculpture, painting, historic relief) and architecture (forum, architecture of the theatre, baths).
-The most important expression of Roman culture through the evidence of the two great centres of the Italian mainland, Rome and Pompeii.
-The roman spectacle- Buildings (amphitheatre, race track).
-Rome and the Greek World.