Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with the basic tools for reading, understanding and commenting the Roman inscriptions in Latin language. Secondly, it will provide them with the necessary skills to use the inscriptions as fundamental sources for studying Roman history. For this purpose, thanks to practical exercises in classroom and in museum, students will learn the use of the epigraphic corpora and the techniques of consultation of the most important epigraphic databases.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prerequisites are required

Program

- Latin epigraphy: definition, topics, limits.
- History of Latin epigraphy
- Work tools.
- The Inscription as a monument.
- The iscription as a document.
- Relief, filing, editing of the inscriptions.
- Roman onomstic..
- The taxonomy of the inscriptions.
- The instrumentum inscriptum.
Didactic methods
For attending students, teaching methods consist of lectures dedicated to the transmission of
Basic notions and basic tools of work. Added to this are the practical exercises in the classroom and museum. Attending students will receive at the first lesson the complete calendar of didactic activities with the dates and topics covered in the lessons provided by the time, the classroom and the indication of possible suspension for academic reasons.
Throughout the academic year, there is also available the individual reception service handled by the teacher at the timetable indicated on the teacher's web pages.
With regard to non-attending students, teaching methods consist of a support teacher for personal study of the manual during the talks, also attached to the outside the scheduled time and providing, on request, additional teaching materials.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons; practical exercises in museums and archaeological sites

Learning assessment procedures

Verification of learning outcomes for both attending and non-attending students is an oral interview.
Objectives of the verification test
- Verify the amplitude and depth of the acquired knowledges.
- Check the analytical and argumentative capabilities
- Check the skills acquired reading and commenting a simple epigraphic text.
The interview will cover al the program and will be in Italian, also for ERASMUS students. The vote will be expressed in 30/30.
Erasmus students should contact in advance the teacher.

Evaluation criteria

Knowledge of the subject matter, ability to argue and to go deeper on topics covered during the lessons

Exam language

Italiano