PAPYROLOGY AND HISTORY OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Specific objectives:

Knowledge of the essential elements of papyrology, of the millennial history of scripture, of scripture and book history.

Knowledge of the methodology and use of papyri, tablets, inscriptions, for the reconstruction of political history, social and economic of ancient Rome.

Acquisition of reading ability and understanding of the documentaries papyri, identifying private or public and contextualizing the contents.

Papyrology and historical development, documentaries papyri. The alphabetical scriptures. Scriptures. Other materials. The ancient book.

O. Licandro, IVS SCRIPTVM. Lineamenti di Epigrafia e Papirologia, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome-Bristol 2020, pp. 1-304.

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla papirologia, Il Mulino – Bologna 2005, pp. 1-247.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.