SCIENZE UMANISTICHEClassical philologyAcademic Year 2022/2023
1016168 - EPIGRAFIA CLASSICA
Teacher: Margherita Guglielmina CASSIA
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin
descriptors, at the end of the course students will demonstrate:
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).
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of the essential outlines of ancient history.
Attendance of Lessons
Optional.
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, ISBN 88-240-1308-2, pp. 1-489.
A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina. Nuova edizione, Roma Carocci Editore, 2020, ISBN 978-88-430-9601-5, 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 L. 22.04.1941, 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.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References |
1 | Introduction to Greek epigraphy | Guarducci pp. 1-4 |
2 | The Cretan linear B | Guarducci pp. 5-9 |
3 | The Phoenician and Greek alphabets | Guarducci pp. 10-33 |
4 | The main local alphabets in the archaic Greek world | Guarducci pp. 34-80 |
5 | The Greek alphabet after the 5th century BC | Guarducci pp. 81-88 |
6 | Archives and publication of documents | Guarducci pp. 89-90 |
7 | Types of inscriptions in Greek and Latin: treaties, arbitrations, official epistles, decrees, laws, edicts, honorary dedications, accounts, inventories, catalogues, instrumentum publicum, sacred laws, votive dedications, proskynemata (and related texts), oracles, sanationes, catalogues of priests, defixiones, 'orphic' gold plates, boundary stones, foundation deeds, manumission deeds, inscriptions on instrumenta domestica, epitaphs, artists' epigraphs, wall, rupestrian, mosaic and metrical inscriptions | Guarducci pp. 91-442; Buonopane pp. 185-268 |
8 | Introduction to Latin epigraphy: definition, scope and limits | Buonopane pp. 17-20 |
9 | History of Latin epigraphy | Buonopane pp. 21-30 |
10 | Tools for Latin Epigraphy | Buonopane pp. 31-60 |
11 | The inscription as monument | Buonopane pp. 61-124 |
12 | The inscription as document | Buonopane pp. 125-142 |
13 | Elements of Latin onomastics | Buonopane pp. 143-168 |
14 | Careers in state and city service | Buonopane pp. 169-184 |
15 | Female epigraphy on the inscriptions of the Colossus of Memnon | Cassia pp. 29-99 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
At least one in-progress test, open to all students, will be taken either in the classroom or online, when at least 1/3 of the lessons have been completed and on a date agreed with the students.
This test will consist of multiple-choice questions on contents of the syllabus already covered in class and will be worth 1 or 2 points up to a total of 30 points.
The time allowed for the test will be 30 minutes.
The topics of the in-progress test will not be the subject of the final examination.
The assessment of the in-progress test is averaged in the formulation of the final grade.
Final oral examination.
The assessment of the examination will take into account the candidate's mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical propriety, as well as his or her ability to argue.
The examination of learning may also be conducted electronically, should the conditions require it.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Greek and Latin epigraphy as a discipline: definition, scope and limits.
The Cretan Linear B.
The Phoenician and Greek alphabets. The main local alphabets in the archaic Greek world and the Greek alphabet after the 5th century BC.
Types of inscriptions in Greek and Latin.
History and working tools of Latin epigraphy.
The inscription as monument and document.
Elements of Latin onomastics.
Female epigraphy in the inscriptions on the Colossus of Memnon.
Versione in italiano