Università Roma Tre

Pierfrancesco PORENA, Latin Epigraphy (Master degree) (36 hours - 6 ECTS)
DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03

“From Turia to Paulina. Latin inscriptions about Roman women. Voices of Roman women in Latin inscriptions”.

Roman women emerge in our sources mainly through the point of view of men, who attempted to standardise them in Latin and Greek learned literature in prose and verse, and in legal literature. But the communicative density of Latin inscriptions conceals and reveals, as in a game of the said and unsaid, the richness of the Roman female universe. An immense and long-lived universe, populated by aristocrats, Roman citizens and foreigners, slaves and freedwomen, children, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, old women and widows. Beneath a supeficially immobile reality, epigraphy whispers instincts and draws asymmetrical sensibilities in perpetual tension between submission to fathers, the inevitable reproductive duty, and the evolution of a society in which even men were prisoners of unquestionable models.

Attending Students: Handouts (PDFs) and materials provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course and during the lessons.

Non-attending Students:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, NUOVA EDIZIONE, Roma (Carocci) 2020 (contiene link con la traduzione italiana dei testi epigrafici esaminati). [mandatory];
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, edited by R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milan (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 46,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' (The Museum of Written Communication in the Roman World) of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Texts for specific non-attending programmes can be agreed with the teacher.