Università Roma Tre

Subject of the course: The anagraphè from Lindo and the Marmor Parium

The course aims to provide an advanced knowledge of Greek epigraphy through the exam of two important "cronographical" texts: the so called Cronicle (or anagraphé) of Lindo and the Marmor Parium.

Bibliography:

– F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, vol. 2B (1929) nr. 239.
– G. Maddoli, Il Marmor Parium, in Cronologia e storia. Studi comparati sull’Athenaion Politeia di Aristotele, a cura di G. Maddoli, Perugia 1975, 51-61.
– C. Higbie, The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of their Past, Oxford - New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.
– J. L. Shaya, Greek temple as museum. The case of the legendary treasure of Athena from Lindos, «American Journal of Archaeology» 109 (2005), 423-442.
– A. Però, La statua di Atena. Agalmatofilia nella Cronaca di Lindos, Milano, LED, 2012 (Filarete. Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell’Università di Milano, 278).
– A. Rotstein, Literary history in the Parian Marble, Washington, D.C., Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2016 (Hellenic studies, 68).

● N.B. The indications above are merely orientative. Further and more accurate indications will be provided during the course.