GREEK EPIGRAPHY

Luigi VECCHIO GREEK EPIGRAPHY

0322200009
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
EQF7
ANCIENT PHILOLOGY, LITERATURES AND HISTORY
2016/2017

YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2014
SECONDO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
630LESSONS
Objectives
THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE THE STUDENT WITH READING SKILLS AND ANALYSIS OF GREEK INSCRIPTIONS; UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR THE STUDY OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF GREEK CIVILIZATION; THE METHODOLOGY AND THE BASIC TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF A GREEK EPIGRAPH.
Prerequisites
NO PREREQUISITES.
Contents
NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE EPIGRAPHY; PRE-ALPHABETIC WRITINGS; GREEK ALPHABETS OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (EXAMINATION, DURING LESSONS, OF LOCAL ALPHABETIC INSCRIPTIONS,WITH FOCUS ON THE THE CORINTHIAN COLONIES); ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE GREEK ALPHABET UP TO THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN AGES; CLASSIFICATION OF THE INSCRIPTIONS; STUDY OF AN EPIGRAPHIC TEXT: METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS; PUBLIC INSCRIPTIONS (TREATIES, LAWS, DECREES, INVENTORIES); PRIVATE INSCRIPTIONS (VOTIVE DEDICATIONS, FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS); RELIGIOUS INSCRIPTIONS (DEDICATIONS, SACRED LAWS, ORPHIC GOLD LABELS).
Teaching Methods
LECTURES AND FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL TOPICS.
Verification of learning
ORAL TEXT.
Texts
M. GUARDUCCI, L’EPIGRAFIA GRECA DALLE ORIGINI AL TARDO IMPERO, ISTITUTO POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO, ROMA, 1987, ONLY 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). EVOLUTION OF GREEK ALPHABET AFTER THE FIFTH CENTURY BC (PP. 81-88). ARCHIVES AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES (89-107). TREATIES, DECREES AND LAWS (111-126; 130-143). HONORIFIC INSCRIPTIONS (PP. 155-157). STATEMENTS AND INVENTORIES (167-199). CATALOGUES (PP. 204-214). RELIGIOUS LIFE (244-247; 254-264). DEFIXIONES (PP. 313-316). ORPHIC GOLD LABEL (320-325). FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS (PP. 379-389).

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO:

1. AGREE ALTERNATIVE READINGS TO THE ARCHAIC INSCRIPTIONS EXAMINED DURING CLASS;

2. INTEGRATE THE PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:

- 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.

- M. L. LAZZARINI, LA SCRITTURA NELLA CITTÀ: ISCRIZIONI, ARCHIVI, ALFABETIZZAZIONE, IN I GRECI. STORIA CULTURA ARTE SOCIETÀ, II/2, A CURA DI S. SETTIS, EINAUDI, TORINO 1997, PP. 725-750.
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