Luigi VECCHIO | GREEK EPIGRAPHY
Luigi VECCHIO GREEK EPIGRAPHY
cod. 0322300008
GREEK EPIGRAPHY
| 0322300008 | |
| DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE | |
| ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ANCIENT WORLD | |
| 2014/2015 |
| YEAR OF COURSE 1 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2014 | |
| SECONDO SEMESTRE |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | |
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| L-ANT/02 | 6 | 30 | LESSONS |
| Objectives | |
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| The course aims to give the awareness of the inscriptions’ importance as essential tool for the direct knowledge of the Greek civilization. It will also give provide the basic methodology to study Greek inscriptions. |
| Prerequisites | |
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| NO PREREQUISITES. |
| Contents | |
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| IN THE FIRST PART, AFTER NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EPIGRAPHY AND THE PRE-ALPHABETIC WRITINGS, THE LESSONS REGARD THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE GREEK ALPHABET UP TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE; GREEK ALPHABETS OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD; CLASSIFICATION OF THE INSCRIPTIONS; STUDY OF AN EPIGRAPHIC TEXT: METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS; PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS (TREATED , LAWS, DECREES, STATEMENTS AND INVENTORIES); PRIVATE INSCRIPTIONS (VOTIVE DEDICATIONS, FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS); HOLY INSCRIPTIONS (DEDICATIONS, SACRED LAWS); ORPHIC GOLD LABELS. THE SECOND PART IS A FOCUS ON ARCHAIC INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ACHAEAN COLONIES OF MAGNA GREACIA. |
| Teaching Methods | |
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| LECTURES AND FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL TOPICS. |
| Verification of learning | |
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| ORAL TEXT. |
| Texts | |
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| M. GUARDUCCI, L’EPIGRAFIA GRECA DALLE ORIGINI AL TARDO IMPERO, ISTITUTO POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO, ROMA, 1987, LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING PAGES. PRESENTATION OF THE DISCIPLINE, SYLLABIC WRITING, FROM PHOENICIAN ALPHABET TO THE GREEK ALPHABET, GREEK INNOVATIONS, THE EVOLUTION OF THE LETTERS, THE REFORM OF EUCLID (PP. 1-33). READING THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTIONS TO EXAMPLES OF ARCHAIC ALPHABETS: PP. 35-36; 39-42; 45-47; 49-51; 55-56; 59-61; 66-67; 69; 365-367. EVOLUTION OF GREEK ALPHABET AFTER THE FIFTH CENTURY BC (PP. 81-88). ARCHIVES AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES (89-100). TREATIES, DECREES AND LAWS (111-126; 130-134; 137-143). STATEMENTS AND INVENTORIES (167-199). RELIGIOUS LIFE (244-247; 254-264). ORPHIC GOLD LABEL (320-325). FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS (PP. 379-389). STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING WILL INTEGRATE THE PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING TEXTS: M. GUARDUCCI, EPIGRAFIA GRECA, I, ROMA 1967, PP. 16-42 (“ELEMENTI DI STORIA DELL’EPIGRAFIA GRECA”); M. L. LAZZARINI, QUESTIONI RELATIVE ALL’ORIGINE DELL’ALFABETO GRECO, IN G. BAGNASCO GIANNI - F. CORDANO (A CURA DI), SCRITTURE MEDITERRANEE TRA IL IX E IL VII SECOLO A.C., MILANO 1999, PP. 53-66. FOR MORE DETAILS ON TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY WILL BE INDICATED IN THE LECTURES. FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO AGREE THE PROGRAM WITH THE TEACHER. THE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY. |
| More Information | |
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| IT IS RECOMMENDED FREQUENCY OF CLASSES. |
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