Unit GREEK EPIGRAPHY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35014206
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Emilio Rosamilia
- Teachers
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- Emilio Rosamilia
- Massimo Nafissi (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 18 ore - Emilio Rosamilia
- 18 ore (Codocenza) - Massimo Nafissi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Introduction to Greek epigraphy, from the origins to the Hellenistic period.
The most common Archaic epichoric alphabets and types of inscribed texts.
Inscribed official documents: the decrees of the greek cities. - Reference texts
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 volumes, Roma: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1967-1978 (repr. 1995), a selection. A list of the parts the students are expected to study will be made available during the lectures.
Epigraphic documents discussed and commented upon during the lectures.
Further readings (essential and recommended) will be suggested during the lectures.
N.B. Students attending less than 60% of the lessons (except working students) will be requested to read:
Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero, Roma: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1987, pp. 1-313.
A selection of at least 15 texts, to be approved by the teachers before the exam, from Claudia Antonetti, Stefania de Vido (a cura di), Iscrizioni greche. Un’antologia, Roma: Carocci, 2017.
Within the limits of copyright laws, all texts will be made available on UniStudium.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Educational objectives
- Knowledge:
• Knowledge of the general lines of Greek epigraphy, from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic one, with particular attention to the evolution of the Greek alphabets and the epichoric scripts of the Archaic period.
• Knowledge of linguistic and graphic characters of inscriptions, as well as of the varied epigraphic production of the Greeks.
• Basic knowledge of the problems of editing an epigraphic document.
• Basic knowledge of the political and social institutions and the culture of the Greek world, in their local and temporal diversities.
• An understanding of the relevance of inscriptions as historical sources as well as instruments and methods for the analysis of epigraphic document from a historical point of view.
Skills:
The course contributes to the development of communication skills, the application of one's knowledge and the refinement of learning practices:
• Using a language appropriate for the description of historical phenomena of the ancient world, as well as possessing general and specific concepts necessary to describe these phenomena.
• Ability to express - when necessary - the complex, problematic, and hypothetical character of historic reconstructions.
• Ability to reflect upon historical phenomena and processes, within the limits posed by a non-analytical knowledge of the same. - Prerequisites
- It is recommended to have passed an exam in Greek history.
Knowledge of Ancient Greek is expected from all students of the Classics curriculum. Students from other curricula can contact the lecturers and obtain a special program that does not require extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek on their part. - Teaching methods
- Lectures. Ancient Greek Documents will be read, traslated, and commented.
Seminars and/or written papers by the students.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA may request, in consultation with the lecturer, any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lectures, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate study. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. A. Di Pilla).
For the 2023/2024 academic year, the University of Perugia has admitted 11 categories of students to distance learning. Students who may be interested are invited to check the possibility of attending lectures in DAD on the website Procedura DAD - Università degli Studi di Perugia (unipg.it) - Other information
- Attendance checked by roll call. Supplementary readings are imposed to students who attend less than 60% of lessons. Attendance by working students is not checked.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information on the University's services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Learning verification modality
- The evaluation process will take place in two steps:
A) Seminar and/or written paper on an assigned topic (e.g. an inscription) to be submitted before the end of the lessons. This will amount to no more than 20% of the final grades.
B) Oral exam (ca. 30', after the course). Each oral exam will include up to two questions about the textbook and other compulsory readings from modern scholarship, as well as reading, translation, and discussion of up to two short passages from the inscriptions examined during the lessons.
- Test of knowledge: All students are tested on their basic knowledge of ancient Greek epigraphy and its methodology, on the origin and diffusion of ancient Greek alphabets, on the ancient documents examined in class and their relevance from a historical point of view, and on the reading materials assigned in the syllabus.
- Evidence of competence: ability to express oneself orally, in particular with regard to the concepts necessary for the description of social, political and cultural institutions and phenomena and of historical development; ability to express complex concepts and hypotheses and to organise information in a hierarchical, logical and synthetic manner; ability to translate from Greek, to contextualise and comment the texts proposed during the course.
The assessment will take into account the breadth and depth of knowledge, the ability to express oneself at a conceptual and argumentative level, the logical rigour and personal character of the exposition, the knowledge of the Greek of the passages examined and the ability to contextualise and comment on them.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA, who have been duly recognised by the SOL and have obtained access to the University's services, may, for the purpose of taking exams, make use of the compensatory aids, assistive devices and inclusive technologies provided for by the regulations, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the exams. For further information, please visit https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Officer for Disability and DSA (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- Part A (prof. M. Nafissi): Greek scripts of the archaic period. After some preliminary lectures on Greek epigraphy, lectures will deal with some of the most commonly attested Greek archaic scripts.
Part B (Prof. E. Rosamilia): Official inscriptions and decrees from Athens and the rest of the Greek world. Lectures will deal with inscriptions that offer cases in point on the typologies of official documents inscribed by the ancient Greek cities, with particular attention to decrees.