Enrollment year
2013/2014
Academic discipline
L-ANT/05 (PAPYROLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Learning outcomes
This module aims to provide a hands-on approach to the study of Papyrology as a discipline of great importance for both Philologists and Historians.
At the end of the module the student will be able to interpret ancient literary and documentary texts in Greek or Latin, or in Italian translation. To this end, a part of the classes will be devoted to introducing and illustrating the methods used by professional scholars to prepare a critical edition of an ancient text.
Course contents
Week 1.
1. Introduction to Papyrology.
2. The first Greek books.
3. Documentary texts.
Week 2.
4. School and Education.
5. Museum and Library.
6. Reading class.
Week 3.
7. Documents of the Ptolemaic period. Edicts of the Kings.
8. Documents of the Ptolemaic period. The Archive of Zenon.
9. Reading class.
Week 4.
10. Roman documents. Economy and society.
11. Roman documents. Petitions to the emperors and response.
12. Reading class.
Week 5.
13. Papyri and 'the other'. Jews.
14. Christians.
15. Letters of women.
Week 6.
16. Poets and pedants.
17. Everyday writing in Roman and Byzantine Egypt.
18. Reading class.
Teaching methods
Three two-hour meetings a week.
The first two will be frontal lectures. The third meeting will be a reading class that will introduce the students to the techniques of transcription and edition of fragmentary texts used by professional papyrologists. The materials will be handed out in the course of the lectures.
Students are strongly advised to attend all lectures and reading classes, given the interactive nature of the teaching, that will give them the chance to make their voice heard.
Reccomended or required readings
Handbook:
Montevecchi, O., La Papirologia. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1998.
Also used in the course of the lectures:
P.Parsons. The City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish, London 2007.
Bowman, A.K. Egypt after the Pharaohs: 332 BC – AD 642: from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (2nd paperback edn), London, British Museum Press, 1996.
NB Additional material and bibliography will be provided in the course of the lectures.
Assessment methods
An oral exam on the material delivered in the course of the lectures.
Further information
An oral exam on the material delivered in the course of the lectures.
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