2009/2010

2009/2010

DM270

L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHYLOLOGY, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

ORIENTALISTICO

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2010 - 29/05/2010)

6

30 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

SCUDERI RITA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Understanding latin inscriptions











Good knowledge of Latin and Roman History

Reading, dating, recording a Latin inscription and the publishing criteria of texts will be taught during the lessons.
A thorough comprehension of all aspects of epigraphies (historical and palaeographical ones) will be achieved during the course, thanks to guided transcriptions and the analysis of selected examples.

Survival, transmission and reception of ancient epigraphies and palaeographical features. Categories: holy, honorific, burial, epigraphs on public buildings, of a juridical nature, and instrumentum inscriptum. Epigraphical databases. Study of selected examples.
An autoptical survey of the University of Pavia’s epigraphical collection will take place at the end of the course.

Lectures, with students’ active contribution too, seminars and tutorials, workshops

1) Notes about an anthology of inscriptions examined during lectures
2) One of the following handbooks:
L. Braccesi -U. Agnati, Epigrafia latina, Bologna, Monduzzi, 2007.
A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma, Carocci, 2009 (mandatory for not-attending students).

Oral examination