CLASSICAL EPIGRAPHY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Margherita Guglielmina CASSIA
Expected Learning Outcomes
1.
Knowledge and understanding (DD1)
The course aims to provide
the student with knowledges and useful tools for the understanding and the
interpretation of classical epigraphy through the indispensable aid of direct
reading of the inscriptions in Greek and Latin from the Mediterranean area and
distributed over a large period of time between the Archaic Greek age and Late
Antiquity. The direct use of ancient sources achieves multiple educational
objectives, as it contributes to the development in the student of the
abilities to know theories and models in a historical and geographical context
to interpret educational and training events, to know the relationship systems
between synchrony and diachrony, to grasp the links space-time and
cause-effect, to establish interdisciplinary connections through the
methodology of historical research, to evaluate long-lasting events and
processes in an ancient and historical context.
2.
Applying
knowledge and understanding (DD2)
Through the study of the
discipline applied to different socio-economic, political and cultural
contexts, the student will acquire the skills to connect the theoretical and
methodological contents learned with the interpretation of past, present and
future events and processes, and to use methodologies appropriate to the
educational objectives.
3.
Making judgements (DD3)
The acquisition of the
disciplinary contents will make the student develop the awareness and maturity
necessary to express, with full autonomy of judgment, points of view and
opinions through the ability to re-elaborate, deepen and critically rethink the
contents learned, to grasp the link between objectives and results of research, to translate
the analysis of learning contexts into the formulation of objectives and
proposals for change and/or transformation, to sift and classify increasingly
complex data and above all to know the main tendencies of thought on the contents and aims
of the discipline.
4.
Communication skills (DD4)
The careful analysis of
the disciplinary contents will offer the student the necessary tools to
correctly communicate the meaning of his ideas and actions, to discuss on a
dialogical level with different interlocutors (specialists or not), to
motivate, in oral and written form, objectives, procedures and methodologies, to
enhance the different points of view and above all to appropriately use the
technical vocabulary of the discipline, adequately using the expressive means
typical of sectoral languages.
5.
Learning skills (DD5)
The course aims to provide student with the necessary tools not only to
increase his knowledge in relation to the increased awareness of his training
needs, but also to refine his skills in the study of increasingly complex
topics and above all to broaden and refine his abilities to learn and use
innovative methodologies to cope with new problems.
Course Structure
Taught classes, but, in order to consolidate the disciplinary contents
acquired on a manual basis (knowledge), exercises will be held on specific
topics through the direct reading of epigraphic evidence (skills).
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the essential features of ancient history.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
Module A
- epigraphy
in Greek and Latin: definition, areas, limits;
- tools
of epigraphy: corpora,
journals, databases, prosopographic repertoires, dictionaries;
- types
of inscribed monument, writing techniques, fakes, copies, squeezes;
- alphabet
of Greek and Latin inscriptions;
- documentation and epigraphic filing;
- onomastics,
titles and careers in Greece and Rome;
- classification
of Greek and Latin inscriptions;
- instrumentum inscriptum;
- acronyms and epigraphic abbreviations.
Module B
- women’s writing: feminine
epigraphy.
Textbook Information
Module A: The basis of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
M. Guarducci, L’epigrafia greca dalle origini al Tardo Impero,
Roma Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Roma, 20052, pp.
1-489.
A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina. Nuova edizione,
Roma Carocci Editore, 2020, pp. 11-332.
Module B: Feminine epigraphy
M. Cassia, ‘Pellegrine’ nell’Egitto romano: ‘voci’ femminili dal
Colosso di Memnone, in Hormos n.s.
9, 2017, pp. 29-99, available in open access on the site
https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/cultureesocieta/riviste/hormos/.content/documenti/3.Margherita_CassiaHormos_9_2017.pdf
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.
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