2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

GIORGIERI MAURO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None, but the knowledge of the history and culture of the Ancient Near East in the II millennium BC and of ancient Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin) is appropriate.

The aim of the course is to initiate the student into the study of history, society, culture and language of the Hittite, in the context of 2nd millennium Anatolia. At the end of the course, the student should have acquired a basic knowledge of the Hittite language (phonetic, morphology, structure of the sentence) and cuneiform script with the reading of simple Hittite historical and legal texts.

A) The first part will be a general introduction to history, culture, religion, and written and archaeological sources of the Hittite civilization and other peoples of the 2nd millennium Anatolia.

B) Introduction to the Hittite language and cuneiform writing. It will comprise the reading of short passages from Hittite texts (Annals of Mursili II, Laws) in cuneiform.
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Lectures; exercises of reading cuneiform script

A) General introduction:
S. de Martino, Gli Ittiti, Roma 2003.

S. de Martino, Da Kussara a Karkemish, storia del regno ittita, Firenze 2016.

H. Genz - D.P. Mielke, Insights into Hittite History and Archaeology, Leuven 2011 (the article of Th. van den Hout pp. 47-84 and another article in this volume by choice of the student to be decided with the teacher).

B) Introduction to Hittite and cuneiform script:
Teaching materials (a short Hitte grammar and lists of cuneiform signs) and the set texts for classes are to be downloaded from KIRO.

Oral examination: two questions on the general introduction; one question on the article read by the student; reading from cuneiform, transliteration and comment upon a text read in class.

Nothing