Enrollment year
2014/2015
Academic discipline
L-ANT/03 (ROMAN HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Curriculum
STORICO-ORIENTALISTICO
Period
2nd semester (23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Latin and Roman History
Learning outcomes
Reading, dating, recording a latin inscription and publishing criteria of text will be taught during the lessons.
A whole comprehension of every aspect shown by epigraphies (historical and palaeographical ones) will be achieved during the course, thanks to guided transcriptions and analysis of selected examples.
Course contents
Survival, transmission and reception of ancient epigraphies, palaeographical features. Categories: holy, honorific, burial, related to public buildings, juridical ones and instrumentum inscriptum.
Epigraphical databases. Study of selected examples.
An autoptical survey of University of Pavia's epigraphical collection will take place at the end of the course.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminar.
Reccomended or required readings
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, 2011 (II ediz.): mandatory for not-attending students.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Oral examination
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