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B020959 - PAPIROLOGY
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Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ANT/05 - PAPYROLOGY
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Mutuality
Course teached as:
B020960 - PAPIROLOGIA
Second Cycle Degree in ANCIENT PHILOLOGY, LITERATURES AND HISTORY
Curriculum STORICO
B020960 - PAPIROLOGIA
Second Cycle Degree in ANCIENT PHILOLOGY, LITERATURES AND HISTORY
Curriculum STORICO
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Greek books and documents from Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt. Historical and cultural contextualization of the papyrological discipline and reading of Greek papyri with bibliological comment, palaeography, contents and historical and literary observations.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
General references:
-The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed. by R.S. Bagnall, Oxford University Press 2009
-E.G. Turner, Greek Papyri, Princeton 1968 (trad. it: Papiri Greci, a cura di M. Manfredi, Roma 1984)
Images, transcripts and summary prospects, as well as a specific bibliography on individual topics, will be distributed during the lessons. During some lessons PowerPoint presentations will also be shown, and they will be made available to students on Moodle.
-The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed. by R.S. Bagnall, Oxford University Press 2009
-E.G. Turner, Greek Papyri, Princeton 1968 (trad. it: Papiri Greci, a cura di M. Manfredi, Roma 1984)
Images, transcripts and summary prospects, as well as a specific bibliography on individual topics, will be distributed during the lessons. During some lessons PowerPoint presentations will also be shown, and they will be made available to students on Moodle.
Learning Objectives
• Knowledge:
- knowledge of the history and tasks of Papyrology
- knowledge of textual typologies on papyrus.
- knowledge of the interaction between different sources and of how a papyrus fragment can be inserted into the historical and cultural context that produced it
- knowledge of the basic development of Greek writing.
- knowledge of the bibliological characteristics of the writing supports from Greco-Roman Egypt.
- knowledge of ecdotics for papyrus texts
• Behaviour
-Encouragement to make intelligent use of the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
- knowledge of the history and tasks of Papyrology
- knowledge of textual typologies on papyrus.
- knowledge of the interaction between different sources and of how a papyrus fragment can be inserted into the historical and cultural context that produced it
- knowledge of the basic development of Greek writing.
- knowledge of the bibliological characteristics of the writing supports from Greco-Roman Egypt.
- knowledge of ecdotics for papyrus texts
• Behaviour
-Encouragement to make intelligent use of the university structure and course, as well as orientation and academic career management tools;
- Encouragement to participate intellectually and benefit from a proper approach to the student-professor relationship;
- Encouragement to share and make responsible use of the study resources provided by the course and faculty.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the Greek language and of the ancient history
Teaching Methods
Taught classes.
Students will actively participate in reading the proposed texts and discussing their material, paleographic and content features. Seminars by experts in specific areas of papyrology are planned.
Students will actively participate in reading the proposed texts and discussing their material, paleographic and content features. Seminars by experts in specific areas of papyrology are planned.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
The exam will be aimed at verifying the training goals. The questions will cover the history of Papirology, the most technical aspects of the discipline, the historical-cultural framing of the analyzed texts. The students will also analyse reproductions of documents addressed during the course and other texts with similar paleographic features
The exam will be aimed at verifying the training goals. The questions will cover the history of Papirology, the most technical aspects of the discipline, the historical-cultural framing of the analyzed texts. The students will also analyse reproductions of documents addressed during the course and other texts with similar paleographic features
Course program
Introduction to Papirology and framing of discipline. Reading from reproductions , with commentary on paleography and contents, of literary and documentary papyrus written in Greek, examined in chronological order from the 4th century BC Until the first Byzantine era.