LATIN EPIGRAPHY

This course is one of the core educational activities characterizing the MA Programme in Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology. It is organised as a seminar-based advanced class focusing on a specific research topic related to Latin Epigraphy. It has the purpose to entitle students the advanced knowledge of the methodology of research in epigraphy. It intends to guarantee the acquisition of the following skills: carry out a scientific research in Latin Epigraphy and be able to communicate its results to both a scientific audience and a wider public. Students will also develop teaching skills in the subject.
By reaching these goals students will be ready to access the job market at a competitive and advanced level in the fields of teaching, communication, dissemination and organization of cultural events.

Students will learn to:
- study Latin inscriptions dating to the Roman period both through autopsy of the monuments and through their manuscript tradition;
- understand critically the problems of how to display inscriptions in museums and exhibitions;
- investigate the history of epigraphic study in order to understand how epigraphy became a scientific discipline;
- use the main paper epigraphic corpora and online epigraphic databases;
- catalogue epigraphic materials according to the current international standards.

In principle, students should have already studied Roman History and Latin Epigraphy in their BA Course. Alternatively, they should read by themselves a basic handbook of Roman Epigraphy such as A. BUONOPANE, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma, Carocci, 2009. Foreign students are invited to contact the course tutor beforehand to discuss their background and adjust the programme to their needs.

Course title: Epigraphic Criticism: A History of the Discipline.
This course will focus through a diacronic and interdisciplinary approach on the development of epigraphy as a scientific discipline, a subject rich in implications for historical studies. Students will be guided in the examination and cataloguing of both genuine and forged inscriptions. They will also be taught how to use the main tools in the digital humanities related to epigraphy, such as the main online corpora and databases (EDR: Epigraphic Database Roma: http://www.edr-edr.it ; EDF: Epigraphic Database Falsae: http://edf.unive.it ).

Programme for students attending the course:
- class notes;
- handouts, slides, and other class materials, available online on the course Moodle;
- I. CALABI LIMENTANI, Epigrafia latina, Milano, Cisalpino, 1991 (quarta edizione), cap. III, pp. 39-124;
- M. PETOLETTI, Appunti sulla fortuna delle epigrafi classiche nel Medioevo, «Aevum» 76, 2002, pp. 309-323;
- W. STENHOUSE, Classical Inscriptions and Antiquarian Scholarship in Italy, 1600-1650, in A.E. COOLEY (a cura di), The Afterlife of Inscriptions: Reusing, Rediscovering, Reinventing & Revitalizing Ancient Inscriptions, London 2000, pp. 77-89;
- W. STENHOUSE, Epigraphy and Technology: The Impact of the Printing Press, in F. Feraudi-Gruénais (a cura di), Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives, Lanham 2010, pp. 23-44;
- W. ECK, Mommsen e il metodo epigrafico, in Concordia e la X regio, Padova 1996, pp. 107-112;
- L. CALVELLI, Codici epigrafici e «lapidi romane sparse». Le frequentazioni veneziane di Theodor Mommsen, in A. BUONOPANE, M. BUORA, A. MARCONE (a cura di), La ricerca epigrafica e antiquaria nelle Venezie dall'età napoleonica all'Unità, Firenze 2007, pp. 197-212;
- S. PANCIERA, Dalle Inscriptiones Italiae ai Supplementa Italica; Supplementa Italica: la nascita, in ID., Epigrafi, epigrafia, epigrafisti. Scritti vari editi e inediti (1956-2005), Roma 2006, pp. 1759-1763;
- S. PANCIERA, L'epigrafista e lo storico della comunicazione epigrafica, «Opuscula Epigraphica» 15, 2013, pp. 69-76;
- T. ELLIOTT, Epigraphy and Digital Resources, in C. BRUUN, ‎J. EDMONDSON (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, Oxford - New York 2015, pp. 78-85.

All literature will be uploaded as pdf files in the course Moodle.
Each student will have to work on a presentation and submit an essay on a specific research topic assigned by the course instructor during the seminar. Bibliographic references and further readings will be given regularly during lectures.

Assessment is based on four elements: active class participation; an onsite presentation on a subject treated during the course; a final paper on one of the topics of the course (approved by the instructor); a final exam (oral discussion with the instructor) based on the readings, the lectures, and the class discussions.
All foreign students are invited to contact the course tutor beforehand in order to discuss their study programme.

Classes will be conducted as seminars, so that all students will have the opportunity to participate in discussions and presentations. Class attendance is highly recommended. Foreign students are invited to contact the course tutor beforehand.

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Students who attend this course will be entitled to take part to the seminar activities, stages and training courses organised by the Roman History and Classics faculty during the two terms. The calendar of activities will be provided in class and on the Department of Humanities website. In particular, students will be entitled to attend two important international scientific meetings organised by the course instructor, which will take place in Venice in October 2018:
- «La falsificazione epigrafica in Italia: questioni di metodo e casi di studio» (Venezia, 10-11 ottobre 2018);
- XXIII Rencontre franco-italienne sur l'épigraphie du monde romain «Epigrafi di carta, epigrafi di pietra. Il ruolo della tradizione manoscritta nello studio delle iscrizioni genuine e spurie» (Venezia, 11-13 ottobre 2018).

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