Università Roma Tre

The course aims to offer:
(a) a general introduction of 5 lessons to the discipline (origins and development of the alphabetical writing in Greece, characteristics of the local alphabets, different kinds of inscriptions and supports, specific literature, specific IT tools);
(b) reading and historical-critical examination of epigraphical texts of different kind and chronology (13 lessons);
(c) practice on inscriptions, in order to gain the knowledge of basic technics and conventions for classifying, recording, filing and editing epigraphical texts (2 lessons);
(d) a practical exercise on how to make epigraphic squeezes at a museum in the city of Rome.

A) M. Guarducci, L'Epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1987.
B) M. Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, I, Roma 2005, pp. 391-487.
C) Material which will be provided by the teacher during classes