Università Roma Tre

The course consists of an introduction to the study of written culture in the Ancient World, with particular reference to the Latin and (pre-Roman and Roman) Greek cultural milieu up to the 7th century AD. A historical, typological and archaeological framework will be traced about tools and materials in use for writing, forms of the book and document, techniques of literary and documentary text composition, with a nod also to the exposed writing practices of epigraphic and other fields. To complement the theoretical discourse, a number of exemplary written testimonies will be examined from the point of view of their forms and contents.

L. Del Corso, Il libro nel mondo antico, Roma, Carocci 2022

Plus, one of the following:

A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma, Carocci 2020
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri. Una introduzione, Serra, Pisa-Roma 2008
G. Cavallo, Scrivere e leggere nella città antica, Carocci, Roma 2019
L. Del Corso, La lettura nel mondo ellenistico, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2005
M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci 2019
O. Pecere, Roma antica e il testo, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2010