The course aims to:
- the analysis and interpretation of epigraphical texts pertinent to holders of prefecture of pretoria between I and V century;
- the historical contextualization of the carrers;
- hypothesis on the way the inscriptions were carried out and preserved.

The knowledge of basic Latin and of roman history are required. Stdents are recommendend. to attend the course more than occasionally.

Texts for students attending the course: xerocopies provided dung lessons;
Texts for students who do not attend the course: They are invited to contact the teacher.

The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The army’s role.

Objectives, expected results
Acquisition of knowledge and critical understanding of the formation of the Roman Empire through the system of the creation of the provinces and their administrative organization, deepening of the relationship between the provinces and the central government.
Essential knowledge of the languages of ancient culture (Greek and Latin).
Historical and archaeological and administrative insights finalized the acquisition of the procurement of ancient sources of research methodologies required and its critical use.
Acquisitions of functional methods of research to the interdisciplinary study of the matter.
We ask a knowledge of languages: English, French, German, in order to have the ability to study the course material in a foreign language.
Suitable learning to further study and research.

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida allo studio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.

It is recommended to attend the lectures.

Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

Title 2018-2019: Peter and Paul in Rome, between history and legend (I-III century)

Course description: from the end of the second century, the presence in Rome of the "trophies" of Peter and Paul is attested. Not much, however, do we know of the last phase of the lives of the two apostles, through historically reliable sources. On the other hand, in the second century begins the production of apocrypha (Acts of Peter, Acts of Paul) that have Peter and Paul as protagonists and the capital of the Empire as a place of many of the events narrated. The module proposes to deepen, according to various perspectives of investigation (philologico-critical, linguistic-literary, historico-doctrinal), these works, with special attention to the sections set in Rome.

Materials for the lessons (critical editions of Lipsius and Vouaux, Italian translations of Erbetta and Moraldi, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Codicology

The course aims to present the features of Greeks and Latin manuscripts, especially those of some relevance for the philological, historical and cultural studies. We will take into consideration external characteristics of manuscripts (such as techniques, means and tools used for arranging a book and the professional figures involved in the process of production) and the cultural background (that is places and times of origin) of manuscript books. A few lessons will be specifically dedicated to the issue of the description of late antique manuscripts which are preserved as fragments.
The course includes an examination of reproducted manuscripts (on paper and on electronic supports) and the examination of manuscripts and other materials in archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

The course provides the necessary skills to study all the fragmentary written materials from Antiquity, namely papyrus, ostraka, parchment, etc. Students will learn how to decypher and edit fragments of documents and literary works, and how to extract useful information in order to start and perform a historical, palaeographical and philological research. In particular, special consideration will be given to the phenomenon of language and graphic interaction between Greek and Latin that can be found in many fragments of documents and books from the 3rd to the 6th century AD in Egypt and other eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

The teacher will provide the students with all the needed study materials.

Students who cannot attend the course are requested to get in touch with the teacher before taking the exam.

Course title 2018-2019: Peter and Paul in Rome, between history and legend (from the fourth century).

Course description.
After the turning point of Constantine, the Church of Rome reaffirms its jurisdictional primacy over the entire universal Church, undermined by the progressive strengthening of the see of Constantinople. In this process the claim of the apostolic foundation of the Roman primacy plays an important role, supported also through the production of new works (Passions of the Pseudo-Linus, Pseudo-Hegesippus, Pseudo-Marcellus) in which the legend of Peter and Paul in the Urbs is fixed in the "official" form. Beyond its immediate political function, it become paradigmatic, in the following centuries (Virtutes Apostolorum, Legenda Aurea), for hagiography, worship and artistic production. The module aims to follow the development of these traditions on the two apostles.

Materials for the seminars (critical editions of Lipsius, Ussani, Fabricius and others, Italian translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Christian and Medieval Iconography (I Semester - 6 CFU)

Sarcophagi in Late Antiquity

The course will give the students a method which is necessary to read the themes depicted in the plastic funerary production of Rome, Arles, Ravenna and Constantinople, observing similarities and differences, both stylistic and chronological. Lessons will retrace the itinerary of roman and mediterranean ateliers, which carved specially sarcophagi, in marble or local stone, with neutral, christian or symbolic scenes. Will be analyzed the main centers of production, such as Rome, Ostia, Arles, Ravenna, Milan and Constantinople.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, H. Brandenburg (edd.), Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani ed altomedievali, Città del Vaticano 2004.
Handouts provided during lessons.

The course aims to:
- the analysis and interpretation of epigraphical texts pertinent to holders of prefecture of pretoria between I and V century;
- the historical contextualization of the carrers;
- hypothesis on the way the inscriptions were carried out and preserved.

The knowledge of basic Latin and of roman history are required. Stdents are recommendend. to attend the course more than occasionally.

Texts for students attending the course: xerocopies provided dung lessons;
Texts for students who do not attend the course: They are invited to contact the teacher.

Etruscan Tomb Painting: a selection of painted tombs of particular interest (7th - 3rd cent. B.C.)

See under "Archeologia LM-2" !

Aristotle on demonstrative science (Posterior Analytics 1.1-6)

[a] Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Translated with a Commentary by J. Barnes, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002 (second edition), pp. xi-xxv (Introduction); 1-12 (ch. 1-6); 81-130 (Commentary).

[b] A. Marmodoro – E. Mayr, Breve introduzione alla metafisica, Carocci, Roma, 2017.
M. Vegetti – F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
R. Smith, Aristotle’s Logic, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .
H. Mendell, Aristotle and Mathematics, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

[c] Una tesina in italiano o in inglese (3500 parole ca.). Il tema e la bibliografia di riferimento devono essere concordati con il docente.
Students are requested to write a paper, in Italian or in English (ca 3500 words). For further information please contact Prof. R. Chiaradonna.

1. Romanticism in Italy and in Europe.
Characteristics of European Romanticism. Origins of the Romanticism in Italy. Romantic author's literary theory will be pointed out. Reading and interpreting shortlisted texts.
2. Reading and interpreting shortlisted passages by Gadda's Meditazione Milanese (some lessons).
Some lessons will be focusing problems of methodology in literary studies.

M. Puppo, Il Romanticismo, Roma, Studium, oppure
E. Raimondi, Romanticismo italiano e romanticismo europeo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori.
C. E. Gadda, Scritti vari e postumi, a cura di A. Silvestri, C. Vela, D. Isella e altri, Milano, Garzanti
Letteratura italiana. vol. 2 Dal Settecento ai nostri giorni, a cura di A. Battistini (capp. VI-VII-VIII-IX-X-XI)
Reading a literary masterpiece of the period, selected during the course, and a monography related to the same book.
Reading and interpreting two classical pieces of the Italian literature, to be chosen throughout the course (including appropriate introduction and explanatory notes).
Non-attending students will be requested to contact the professor for further bibliographical guidelines.

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- slides in ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- A.Cantile, Lineamenti di storia della Cartografia, Roma, Geoweb, 2013 (vol. I, Dalle origini al Cinquecento).
- D. Woodward, Cartografia a stampa nell'Italia del Rinascimento: produttori, distributori e destinatari, Bergamo 2002.

Christian Epigraphy (II Semester - 6 CFU)

The course will give the student a general knowledge of the Early Christian Epigraphy. Frontal lessons will be accompanied by exercises, that will provide the essential notions to make an epigraphic edition. Course attendance, even if not mandatory, is highly recommended.

Assignment:
C. Carletti, Epigrafia dei Cristiani in Occidente dal III al VII secolo: ideologia e prassi, Bari 2008.
Handouts for exercises will be provided during the lessons.

SUBJECT OF THE COURSE
"The Apatouria: myths, ritual, institutions, ideology."

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

N.B. The indication of texts is merely orientative. Further and more accurate indications will be given during the course.

– B. Bednarek, Mélange of Melanaegis and Leukaspis. On the aetiology of the Apatouria festival, «Eos» 101 (2014), 159-168.
– A. M. Biraschi, Erodoto (I 147, 2) e la festa 'iconica' delle Apaturie. A proposito di un omicidio, «La parola del passato» 66 (2011), 241-249.
– P. Vidal-Naquet, Il cacciatore nero. Forme di pensiero e forme d‘articolazione sociale nel mondo greco (trad. it. di Le chasseur noir. Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec, Paris 1981 [1991; 2005]), a c. di F. Sircana, Milano 2006, 123-133; Id., Retour au chasseur noir, in Mélanges Pierre Lévêque, 2: Anthropologie et société, Besançon 1989, 387-411.
– R. D. Cromey, Apollo Patroos and the phratries, «L'Antiquité Classique» 75 (2006), 41-69.
– F. Salviat, La source ionienne: Apatouria, Apollon Delphinios et l'oracle, l'Aristarchéion, in A. Hermary - H. Tréziny (éds.), Les cultes des cités phocéennes. Actes du colloque International, Aix-en-Provence - Marseille 4-5 juin 1999, Aix-en-Provence 2000, 25-31.
– S. D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor 1998 (2nd revis. ed.), 143-178.
– O. Palagia, Akropolis Museum 581. A family at the Apaturia?, «Hesperia» 64 (1995), 493-501.
– H. J. Walker, Theseus and Athens, Oxford - New York 1995, 95-104.
– C. W. Hedrick, Phratry shrines of Attica and Athens, «Hesperia» 60 (1991), 241-268; Id., The temple and cult of Apollo Patroos in Athens, «American Journal of Archaeology» 92 (1988), 185-210.
– N. Robertson, Melanthus, Codrus, Neleus, Caucon. Ritual myth as Athenian history, «Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies» 29 (1988), 201-261.
– P. Schmitt- Pantel, Athéna Apatouria et la ceinture: les aspects féminins des Apatouries à Athènes, «Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations» 32 (1977), 1059-1073 .
– A. Brelich, Guerre, agoni e culti nella Grecia arcaica, Bonn 1961, 55 ss. (rist. Roma 2009, a c. di E. Dettori, 113 ss.).

There will be analyzed some particularly important female figures who played an important role between the end of the Republic and the first decades of the Principality, first of all Livia and Antonia Minore. Their role will also be reconstructed with respect to the question of dynastic succession.

Svetonio- Vita di Augusto e di Tiberio (qualsiasi edizione)


P. Arena- A. Marcone- Augusto e la creazione del Principato. La questione dinastica, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2018
A. Momigliano, L'opera dell'imperatore Claudio (nuova ed. a cura di D. Faoro), Jouvence, Napoli 2016

G. Geraci-A. Marcone, Storia romana, Editio Maior, Roma-Bari 2017

Bibliografia aggiuntiva per i non frequentanti

P. Buongiorno, Claudio, Il principe inatteso, 21 Editore, Palermo 2017.

F. Guidetti, L'Impero romano in 100 date, Dalla Porta, Pisa 2016.

Foundations of pragmatics. Three main branches of pragmatics: philosophical, linguistic, sociological
Speech Acts theory. Implicitness in language. Presuppositions. Implicatures.
Deixis. Functional sentence perspective
Conversation Analysis
Interactional linguistics

Caffi Sei lezioni di pragmatica Carocci editore
Orletti Cos'è la linguistica interazionale Carocci

TITLE OF THE MODULE: On Augustine's fortune in the Middle Ages: the Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini attributed to Ugo di San Vittore (c. 1096-1141)

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: The module, of a monographic nature, intends first to retrace, broadly, the origins and types of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of the religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages - and then to analyze, with particular attention to the vocabulary and use of the sources, the Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini attributed to Hugh of St. Victor, a text so far little studied, nor edited critically, but not a secondary witness of Augustine's enduring influence on the religious life of the so-called XII century rebirth. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hugo de S. Victore (?), Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini, ed. PL 176, coll. 881-924.

2. D. Poirel, Ugo di San Vittore. Storia, scienza, contemplazione, trad. it., Ed. Jaca Book, Milano 1997.

3. M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.

The woman's body in the Christian imaginary: discourses and images from the Ancient and Medieval Christianity

The reflection on the female body and the manifold declinations of its instrumentalization, which has been set at the center of the contemporary debate by the feminist thought, is of current issue and controversy. How has the woman's body been represented by the Christian authors and the few Christian women writers during Ancient and Medieval Times? How has it been depicted inart ? The course aims to face the subject of the female body according to an historical perspective, considering such a body in its biological and cultural dimension, keeping in mind the most broadly shared medical and philosophical conceptions , the metaphoric language, the cultural models and the exegetical developments. Virgins, martyrs, mothers, martyrs, mothers, brides, widows, nuns: to each category corresponds a body, to whose plasmation contribute homilies of bishops, treatises on virginity, hagiographic novels, martyrs' passions, historiographical works, pictorial representations.
Students attending the course are required to write a short paper on a chosen topic .

For students who attend lectures
Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Emanuela Prinzivalli (a cura di), Le donne nello sguardo degli antichi autori cristiani, Trapani, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2013
A collection of diverse primary sources around several major themes will be provided during the course

Students who are not able to attend the lectures have to read
Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Emanuela Prinzivalli (a cura di), Le donne nello sguardo degli antichi autori cristiani, Trapani, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2013
and one of the following books:
Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity,Columbia University Press, 2008
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women,University of California 1988.
Jacques Le Goff-Nicolas Truong, Une histoire du corps au Moyen Âge , Paris, L.Levi, 2003.
Aline Rousselle, Porneia : de la maîtrise du corps à la privation sensorielle, IIe-IVe siècles de l'ère chrétienne Paris , Presses universitaires de France , 1983

The course is for students of Science of Archaeology and students of other Master courses (particularly Classical Studies, History of Art, etc.).
During the lessons will be considered the pottery productions made in Greece between the seventh and forth century. C. focusing on technical and iconographic aspects: from figurative themes, to the techniques of manufacturing goods, both as regards the organization of work.
The course will consist of head-on lessons, class discussion, educational visits.

A. Tempesta, I quartieri artigianali, in I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, a cura di S. Settis, 4. Atlante, tomo II, Torino 2002, pp. 1065-1123.
I. Scheibler, Il vaso in Grecia. Produzione, commercio e uso degli antichi vasi in terracotta, (Biblioteca di Archeologia, 34), Milano 2004 (italian translation of Griechische Töpferkunst, München 1983).

Working students or those otherwise unable to participate in activities are invitated to contact the professor

Synesius of Cyrene (4th-5th century CE) was both a brilliant student of neoplatonic philosophy at the pagan school of Alexandria and the christian bishop of Ptolemais.
In 405 he sent to his old teacher Hypatia a letter along with two then unpublished works: the first one was On Dio and the other was a brief treatise about dreams. In the latter work, as one can read at the end of the letter, Synesius put forward “doctrines entirely new to Hellenic philosophy”.
The class of Byzantine Civilisation for MA degree is dedicated to the analysis of the figure of Synesius – which is ambiguous only in appearance – and of his On Dreams. In particular, the class will deal with the reception of the work in late Byzantium. In fact, in the 14th century Synesius’s treaty was commented by two important Byzantine scholars, approximately in the same period. The examination of the text will be crucial to comprehend the most profound reasons which led some Byzantine intellectuals to become interested in Neoplatonic doctrines during the Palaiologan age.

OBLIGATORY TEXTS
E.R.Dodds, , Pagani e cristiani in un’epoca di angoscia (ed. it.), La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1970 (Ia ed.).
M.Simonetti, Classici e cristiani, Milano, Medusa Edizioni, 2007.
Sinesio, Opere, epistole, operette, inni, a cura di Garzya, A., UTET, Torino 1989, pp. 9-34.
Sinesio, I sogni, a cura di Susanetti, D., Adriatica Editrice, Bari 1992, pp. 11-30.

OPTIONAL TEXTS
Athanassiadi, P.,-Frede, M. (a cura di), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999.
Aujoulat, N., “Les avatars de la phantasia dans le Traité des songes de Synésios de Cyrène”, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 8 (1984), pp. 33-55.
Aujoulat, N., “Les avatars de la phantasia dans le Traité des songes de Synésios de Cyrène”, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 7 (1983), pp. 157-177.
Barnes, T. D., “Synesius in Constantinople”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 27/1 (1986), pp. 93-112.
Barnes, T. D., “When did Synesius become bishop of Ptolemais?”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 27/3 (1986), pp. 325-329.
Bregman, J., “Synesius of Cyrene”, in Gerson, L. P. (a cura di), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, vol. I, pp. 520-537.
Bregman, J., Synesius of Cyrene, Philosopher-Bishop, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Londra 1982.
Brown, P.,-Lizzi Testa, R. (a cura di), Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: a breaking of a dialogue. Proceedings of the International conference at the Monastery of Bose (Ottobre 2008), LIT, Zurigo 2011.
Cameron, A.,-Long, J., Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford 1993.
Chuvin, P., “I filosofi e la loro religione nella società di Alessandria nel V secolo”, in Romano, F.,-Tiné, A. (a cura di), Questioni neoplatoniche, Università di Catania, Catania 1988, pp. 45-61.
Chuvin, P., Cronaca degli ultimi pagani (ed. it.), Paideia, Brescia 2012.
Di Pasquale Barbanti, M., Filosofia e cultura in Sinesio di Cirene, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1994.
Di Pasquale Barbanti, M., Ochema-pneuma e phantasia nel Neoplatonismo. Aspetti psicologici e prospettive religiose, CUECM, Catania 1998.
Hagl, W., Arcadius Apis Imperator. Synesios von Kyrene und sein Beitrag zum Herrscherideal der Spatantike, Franz Steiner, Stoccarda 1997.
Lacombrade, C., Sinesio: il trattato sui sogni (ed. it.), in Il sogno in Grecia, a cura di Guidorizzi, G., Laterza, Bari 1988, pp. 191-207.
Lacombrade, C., Synésios de Cyrène, hellène et chrétien, Les Belles Lettres, Parigi 1951.
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G., “Synesius and Municipal Politics of Cyrenaica in the 5th century AD”, Byzantion 55 (1985), pp. 146-164.
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G., “Why did Synesius become bishop of Ptolemais?”, Byzantion 56 (1986), pp. 180-195.
Marrou, H. I., “La «conversion» de Synésios”, Revue des études grecques 65 (1952) pp. 474-484.
Marrou, H. I., “Sinesio di Cirene e il neoplatonismo alessandrino” (ed. it.), in Momigliano, A. (a cura di), Il conflitto tra Paganesimo e Cristianesimo nel secolo IV, Einaudi, Torino 1968, pp. 139-164.
Neil, B., “Synesius of Cyrene on Dreams as a Pathway to the Divine”, Phronema 30/2 (2015), pp. 19-36.
Nicephori Gregorae Explicatio in librum Synesii «De Insomniis», scholia cum glossis, a cura di Pietrosanti, P., Levante Editori, Bari 1999.
Ronchey, S., Ipazia. La vera storia, Rizzoli, Milano 2010.
Roos, B. A., Synesius of Cyrene: A Study in His Personality, Lund University Press, Lund 1991.
Roques, D., “Synésios à Constantinople : 399-402”, Byzantion 65 (1995), pp. 405-439.
Roques, D., Synésios de Cyrène et la Cyrénaïque du Bas-Empire, Éditions du CNRS, Parigi 1987.
Schmitt, T., Die Bekehrung des Synesios von Kyrene, K. G. Saur, Monaco 2001.
Synésios de Cyrène, Opuscule I (vol. IV), a cura di Lamoureux, J.,-Aujoulat, N., Les Belles Lettres, Parigi 2004.
Synesius, De Insomniis. On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination, a cura di Russell, D. A.,-Nesselrath, H. G., Mohr Siebeck, Tubinga 2014.
Tanaseanu-Döbler, I., Konversion zur Philosophie in der Spätantike: Kaiser Julian und Synesios von Kyrene, Steiner, Stoccarda 2008.
Toulouse, S., “Synésios de Cyrène”, in Goulet, R. (a cura di), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques (vol. VI), CNRS, Parigi 2016.
Vollenweider, S., Neuplatonische und christliche Theologie bei Synesios von Kyrene, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottinga 1985.

Advanced course on linguistic change, its mechanisms and explanations at the different levels of analysis. Grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, reanalysis and their relationship with Construction Grammar. Historical grammar of IE languages known by students. Etymology and its bibliografical instruments.

Benedetti, Marina, 2003, “L’etimologia fra tipologia e storia”, in M. Mancini (a cura di), Il cambiamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 209-262.
Lazzeroni, Romano, 1995, “L’espressione dell’agente come categoria linguistica. I nomi in -tḗr e -tōr, in P. Cuzzolin (ed.), Studi di linguistica greca, Milano, Francoangeli, 165-171.
Lazzeroni, Romano 2010, Nomi d’agente e composizione. Una scala di nominalità. ”, in I. Putzu – G. Paulis – G. Nieddu – P. Cuzzolin, eds., La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia. Atti del VII Incontro internazionale di linguistica greca (Cagliari, 13-15 settembre 2007), Milano, FrancoAngeli, 256-265.
Marazzini ,Claudio, 2010, La lingua italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 138-148.
Pompei Anna, 2006, “Tracce di incorporazione in greco antico”, in P. Cuzzolin – M. Napoli, eds., Fonologia e tipologia lessicale nella storia della lingua greca. Atti del VI Incontro Internazionale di linguistica greca, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 216-237.
Pompei Anna, 2010, “Space coding in verb-particle constructions and prefixed verbs”, in on G. Marotta – A. Lenci – L. Meini – F. Rovai, eds., Space in Language, Proceedings of the Pisa International Conference, (Pisa, 8-10 ottobre 2009), Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 401-418.
Pompei Anna, 2011, “Typologie des constructions relatives en latin”, Les Études classiques, 79, 65-91.
Pompei Anna – Nicola Grandi, 2012, “Per una tipologia dei composti del greco”, in I. Putzu – G. Paulis – G. Nieddu – P. Cuzzolin, eds., La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia. Atti del VII Incontro internazionale di linguistica greca (Cagliari, 13-15 settembre 2007), Milano, FrancoAngeli, 209-232.
Simone, Raffaele, 1996, “Esistono verbi sintagmatici in italiano?”, Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 3, 47-61.
[http://revistas.ucm.es/fll/11339527/articulos/CFIT9696110047A.PDF]
Simone Raffaele, 2009, “Verbi sintagmatici come categoria e come costruzione”, in in M. Cini (ed.), I verbi sintagmatici in italiano e nelle varietà dialettali. Stato dell’arte e prospettive di ricerca, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 13-30.
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Roman painting: evolution, techniques and styles

Ida Baldassarre, Pittura romana: dall'ellenismo al tardo-antico, Federico Motta Editore, 2006 (or other editions)

"Cruel Venus": Seneca's Phaedra. In the course a full setting of the latin tragedy will be offered, together with a close reading in latin, an italian interpretation and a commentary of Seneca's play, paying particular attention to aspects of dramaturgy and poetic shape (models, esp. Euripides' Hippolytus, metrics, style).

- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, Roma, Carocci, 2011
- Further bibliography will be given at the beginning of the course.

Women's protests between tragedy and elegy: Ovid's Heroides.

Istituzioni di Filologia Latina (testo a cura della docente).
A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 1992.
Publio Ovidio Nasone, Lettere di eroine, introduzione, traduzione e note di Gianpiero, Rosati, Milano 1989

The course will offer a presentation about the literary context of the "De reditu", an incomplete work in elegiac couplets, in which Rutilius Namatianus wrote the report of his journey from Rome to Gaul Narbonensis, land of origin and place of return and escape from barbarian raids. With particular attention to the aspects of form, style and metric we will proceed with the integral reading, interpretation and commentary of the poem, destined to assume, perhaps involuntarily, a real epoch-making dimension.

- Rutilio Namaziano, Il ritorno, a cura di A. Fo, Torino, Einaudi, 1992 [19942] [oppure Rutilio Namaziano, Il ritorno, a cura di S. Pozzato e A. Rodighiero, Torino, N. Aragno, 2011].
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia University Press, 2013
(only chapters: 1-4, 8-9, 11-12, 23-26, 28-29).

Texts: the bibliography on topics will be shown during the courses.
The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the Texts-Bibliography shown above and during the lessons.

SUBJECT OF THE COURSE
“Ancient Greek inscriptions in Naxos (Cyclades).”

N.B. The indication of texts is merely orientative. Further and more accurate indications will be given during the course.

– Praktika tōn Panellēniōn Synedriōn me Thema "Hē Naxos dia Mesou tōn Aiōnōn", I-V, Athēna - Naxos 1994-2018.
– Chr. Constantakopoulou, The Dance of the Islands. Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World, Oxford 2007.
– M. B. Savo, Culti, sacerdozi e feste delle Cicladi dall'età arcaica all'età romana, I: Io, Nasso, Sifno, Serifo, Citno, Siro, Tivoli 2004, 75-259 (cap. 2).
– V. K. Lambrinoudakis, The emergence of the city-state of Naxos in the Aegean, in M-C. Lentini (ed.), The Two Naxos Cities: A Fine Link between the Aegean Sea and Sicily. Exhibition 14-30 June 2001, University of Athens, 6−31 July 2001, Archaeological Museum of the Island of Naxos, Palermo 2001, 13-22.
– V. Costa, Nasso dalle origini al V secolo a. C., Roma 1997.
– Fr. Hiller von Gaertringen, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII 5: Inscriptiones Cycladum (Ios, Sikinos, Naxos, Paros, Oliaros, Siphnos, Seriphos, Kythnos, Keos, Gyaros, Syros, Andros, Tenos), Berlin 1903-1909.

This course aims to offer an in-depth knowledge of a foundational text of Italian literature, the "Vita nova" by Dante Alighieri, which will be read and discussed in its entirety. This juvenile work is a crucial text in relation to both Dante's experience as a poet and the development of Italian literature in the thirteenth century as a whole, as well as with regard to the influence that it exerted on later authors such as Petrarch. A lecture will be devoted to the afterlife of this work; special attention will be devoted to the British painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and to his artistic elaboration of the "Vita nova".

Dante ALIGHIERI, 'Vita nova', a cura di Stefano Carrai, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2009

NB: those students who won't attend lectures are asked to read the 'Vita nova' not in the edition edited by Carrai, but rather in the one edited by Pirovano (introduction, 'nota al testo' and commentary included): Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita nuova, a cura di Donato Pirovano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle Opere di Dante, I. Vita nuova – Rime, ed. by D. Pirovano and Marco Grimaldi, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015, pp. 1-289

Bambo's 'Asolani' and the renaissance dialogue

The texts of the Asolani and other dialogues will be made available online on the lecturer's web site

DCourse description: The history of our language can also be read and studied using the grammars that, over time, have described and codified it and which mirror the particular historical moments in which they were written. The module deals with the birth of Italian grammar and its evolution in diachrony focusing on the main temporal junctions and the most important works: from the 15th century Grammatichetta of the Tuscan language by Leon Battista Alberti to the major grammars of our day.

ibliografia:

- S. Fornara (2005), Breve storia della grammatica italiana, Roma, Carocci.
- G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, L. Tomasin (a cura di) (2018), Storia, dell’italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, Roma, Carocci: capp. III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII (in dispense messe a disposizione dal docente).

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin in the schools. For the language the theoric pattern of E. Andreoni Fontecedro will be illustrated as useful technique to improve translating skills. For the literature selections of Lucretius’ De rerum natura will be read, translated and commented through analysis of relevant poetic, philosophical, and stylistic issues.

E. Andreoni Fontecedro – M. Agosti – C. Senni, Guida alla traduzione del testo latino, Roma, Edizioni Studium, 2017

Lucretius, De rerum natura

SUBJECT OF THE COURSE
"The Apatouria: myths, ritual, institutions, ideology."

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

N.B. The indication of texts is merely orientative. Further and more accurate indications will be given during the course.

– B. Bednarek, Mélange of Melanaegis and Leukaspis. On the aetiology of the Apatouria festival, «Eos» 101 (2014), 159-168.
– A. M. Biraschi, Erodoto (I 147, 2) e la festa 'iconica' delle Apaturie. A proposito di un omicidio, «La parola del passato» 66 (2011), 241-249.
– P. Vidal-Naquet, Il cacciatore nero. Forme di pensiero e forme d‘articolazione sociale nel mondo greco (trad. it. di Le chasseur noir. Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec, Paris 1981 [1991; 2005]), a c. di F. Sircana, Milano 2006, 123-133; Id., Retour au chasseur noir, in Mélanges Pierre Lévêque, 2: Anthropologie et société, Besançon 1989, 387-411.
– R. D. Cromey, Apollo Patroos and the phratries, «L'Antiquité Classique» 75 (2006), 41-69.
– F. Salviat, La source ionienne: Apatouria, Apollon Delphinios et l'oracle, l'Aristarchéion, in A. Hermary - H. Tréziny (éds.), Les cultes des cités phocéennes. Actes du colloque International, Aix-en-Provence - Marseille 4-5 juin 1999, Aix-en-Provence 2000, 25-31.
– S. D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor 1998 (2nd revis. ed.), 143-178.
– O. Palagia, Akropolis Museum 581. A family at the Apaturia?, «Hesperia» 64 (1995), 493-501.
– H. J. Walker, Theseus and Athens, Oxford - New York 1995, 95-104.
– C. W. Hedrick, Phratry shrines of Attica and Athens, «Hesperia» 60 (1991), 241-268; Id., The temple and cult of Apollo Patroos in Athens, «American Journal of Archaeology» 92 (1988), 185-210.
– N. Robertson, Melanthus, Codrus, Neleus, Caucon. Ritual myth as Athenian history, «Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies» 29 (1988), 201-261.
– P. Schmitt- Pantel, Athéna Apatouria et la ceinture: les aspects féminins des Apatouries à Athènes, «Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations» 32 (1977), 1059-1073 .
– A. Brelich, Guerre, agoni e culti nella Grecia arcaica, Bonn 1961, 55 ss. (rist. Roma 2009, a c. di E. Dettori, 113 ss.).

The course aims to:
- the analysis and interpretation of epigraphical texts pertinent to holders of prefecture of pretoria between I and V century;
- the historical contextualization of the carrers;
- hypothesis on the way the inscriptions were carried out and preserved.

The knowledge of basic Latin and of roman history are required. Stdents are recommendend. to attend the course more than occasionally.

Texts for students attending the course: xerocopies provided dung lessons;
Texts for students who do not attend the course: They are invited to contact the teacher.

The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The army’s role.

Objectives, expected results
Acquisition of knowledge and critical understanding of the formation of the Roman Empire through the system of the creation of the provinces and their administrative organization, deepening of the relationship between the provinces and the central government.
Essential knowledge of the languages of ancient culture (Greek and Latin).
Historical and archaeological and administrative insights finalized the acquisition of the procurement of ancient sources of research methodologies required and its critical use.
Acquisitions of functional methods of research to the interdisciplinary study of the matter.
We ask a knowledge of languages: English, French, German, in order to have the ability to study the course material in a foreign language.
Suitable learning to further study and research.

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida allo studio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.

It is recommended to attend the lectures.

Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

Title 2018-2019: Peter and Paul in Rome, between history and legend (I-III century)

Course description: from the end of the second century, the presence in Rome of the "trophies" of Peter and Paul is attested. Not much, however, do we know of the last phase of the lives of the two apostles, through historically reliable sources. On the other hand, in the second century begins the production of apocrypha (Acts of Peter, Acts of Paul) that have Peter and Paul as protagonists and the capital of the Empire as a place of many of the events narrated. The module proposes to deepen, according to various perspectives of investigation (philologico-critical, linguistic-literary, historico-doctrinal), these works, with special attention to the sections set in Rome.

Materials for the lessons (critical editions of Lipsius and Vouaux, Italian translations of Erbetta and Moraldi, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Codicology

The course aims to present the features of Greeks and Latin manuscripts, especially those of some relevance for the philological, historical and cultural studies. We will take into consideration external characteristics of manuscripts (such as techniques, means and tools used for arranging a book and the professional figures involved in the process of production) and the cultural background (that is places and times of origin) of manuscript books. A few lessons will be specifically dedicated to the issue of the description of late antique manuscripts which are preserved as fragments.
The course includes an examination of reproducted manuscripts (on paper and on electronic supports) and the examination of manuscripts and other materials in archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

Course title 2018-2019: Peter and Paul in Rome, between history and legend (from the fourth century).

Course description.
After the turning point of Constantine, the Church of Rome reaffirms its jurisdictional primacy over the entire universal Church, undermined by the progressive strengthening of the see of Constantinople. In this process the claim of the apostolic foundation of the Roman primacy plays an important role, supported also through the production of new works (Passions of the Pseudo-Linus, Pseudo-Hegesippus, Pseudo-Marcellus) in which the legend of Peter and Paul in the Urbs is fixed in the "official" form. Beyond its immediate political function, it become paradigmatic, in the following centuries (Virtutes Apostolorum, Legenda Aurea), for hagiography, worship and artistic production. The module aims to follow the development of these traditions on the two apostles.

Materials for the seminars (critical editions of Lipsius, Ussani, Fabricius and others, Italian translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

The course is for students of Science of Archaeology and students of other Master courses (particularly Classical Studies, History of Art, etc.).
During the lessons will be considered the pottery productions made in Greece between the seventh and forth century. C. focusing on technical and iconographic aspects: from figurative themes, to the techniques of manufacturing goods, both as regards the organization of work.
The course will consist of head-on lessons, class discussion, educational visits.

A. Tempesta, I quartieri artigianali, in I Greci. Storia Cultura Arte Società, a cura di S. Settis, 4. Atlante, tomo II, Torino 2002, pp. 1065-1123.
I. Scheibler, Il vaso in Grecia. Produzione, commercio e uso degli antichi vasi in terracotta, (Biblioteca di Archeologia, 34), Milano 2004 (italian translation of Griechische Töpferkunst, München 1983).

Working students or those otherwise unable to participate in activities are invitated to contact the professor

Christian and Medieval Iconography (I Semester - 6 CFU)

Sarcophagi in Late Antiquity

The course will give the students a method which is necessary to read the themes depicted in the plastic funerary production of Rome, Arles, Ravenna and Constantinople, observing similarities and differences, both stylistic and chronological. Lessons will retrace the itinerary of roman and mediterranean ateliers, which carved specially sarcophagi, in marble or local stone, with neutral, christian or symbolic scenes. Will be analyzed the main centers of production, such as Rome, Ostia, Arles, Ravenna, Milan and Constantinople.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, H. Brandenburg (edd.), Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani ed altomedievali, Città del Vaticano 2004.
Handouts provided during lessons.

Advanced course on linguistic change, its mechanisms and explanations at the different levels of analysis. Grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, reanalysis and their relationship with Construction Grammar. Historical grammar of IE languages known by students. Etymology and its bibliografical instruments.

Benedetti, Marina, 2003, “L’etimologia fra tipologia e storia”, in M. Mancini (a cura di), Il cambiamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 209-262.
Lazzeroni, Romano, 1995, “L’espressione dell’agente come categoria linguistica. I nomi in -tḗr e -tōr, in P. Cuzzolin (ed.), Studi di linguistica greca, Milano, Francoangeli, 165-171.
Lazzeroni, Romano 2010, Nomi d’agente e composizione. Una scala di nominalità. ”, in I. Putzu – G. Paulis – G. Nieddu – P. Cuzzolin, eds., La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia. Atti del VII Incontro internazionale di linguistica greca (Cagliari, 13-15 settembre 2007), Milano, FrancoAngeli, 256-265.
Marazzini ,Claudio, 2010, La lingua italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 138-148.
Pompei Anna, 2006, “Tracce di incorporazione in greco antico”, in P. Cuzzolin – M. Napoli, eds., Fonologia e tipologia lessicale nella storia della lingua greca. Atti del VI Incontro Internazionale di linguistica greca, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 216-237.
Pompei Anna, 2010, “Space coding in verb-particle constructions and prefixed verbs”, in on G. Marotta – A. Lenci – L. Meini – F. Rovai, eds., Space in Language, Proceedings of the Pisa International Conference, (Pisa, 8-10 ottobre 2009), Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 401-418.
Pompei Anna, 2011, “Typologie des constructions relatives en latin”, Les Études classiques, 79, 65-91.
Pompei Anna – Nicola Grandi, 2012, “Per una tipologia dei composti del greco”, in I. Putzu – G. Paulis – G. Nieddu – P. Cuzzolin, eds., La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia. Atti del VII Incontro internazionale di linguistica greca (Cagliari, 13-15 settembre 2007), Milano, FrancoAngeli, 209-232.
Simone, Raffaele, 1996, “Esistono verbi sintagmatici in italiano?”, Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, 3, 47-61.
[http://revistas.ucm.es/fll/11339527/articulos/CFIT9696110047A.PDF]
Simone Raffaele, 2009, “Verbi sintagmatici come categoria e come costruzione”, in in M. Cini (ed.), I verbi sintagmatici in italiano e nelle varietà dialettali. Stato dell’arte e prospettive di ricerca, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 13-30.
[http://host.uniroma3.it/laboratori/triple/Pubblicazioni_Publications_files/Simone%20in%20press%20-%20Verbi%20sintagmatici%20come%20costruzione%20e%20come%20categoria.pdf]

The course aims to:
- the analysis and interpretation of epigraphical texts pertinent to holders of prefecture of pretoria between I and V century;
- the historical contextualization of the carrers;
- hypothesis on the way the inscriptions were carried out and preserved.

The knowledge of basic Latin and of roman history are required. Stdents are recommendend. to attend the course more than occasionally.

Texts for students attending the course: xerocopies provided dung lessons;
Texts for students who do not attend the course: They are invited to contact the teacher.

The course will offer a presentation about the literary context of the "De reditu", an incomplete work in elegiac couplets, in which Rutilius Namatianus wrote the report of his journey from Rome to Gaul Narbonensis, land of origin and place of return and escape from barbarian raids. With particular attention to the aspects of form, style and metric we will proceed with the integral reading, interpretation and commentary of the poem, destined to assume, perhaps involuntarily, a real epoch-making dimension.

- Rutilio Namaziano, Il ritorno, a cura di A. Fo, Torino, Einaudi, 1992 [19942] [oppure Rutilio Namaziano, Il ritorno, a cura di S. Pozzato e A. Rodighiero, Torino, N. Aragno, 2011].
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia University Press, 2013
(only chapters: 1-4, 8-9, 11-12, 23-26, 28-29).

Etruscan Tomb Painting: a selection of painted tombs of particular interest (7th - 3rd cent. B.C.)

See under "Archeologia LM-2" !

Aristotle on demonstrative science (Posterior Analytics 1.1-6)

[a] Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Translated with a Commentary by J. Barnes, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002 (second edition), pp. xi-xxv (Introduction); 1-12 (ch. 1-6); 81-130 (Commentary).

[b] A. Marmodoro – E. Mayr, Breve introduzione alla metafisica, Carocci, Roma, 2017.
M. Vegetti – F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
R. Smith, Aristotle’s Logic, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .
H. Mendell, Aristotle and Mathematics, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition)”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

[c] Una tesina in italiano o in inglese (3500 parole ca.). Il tema e la bibliografia di riferimento devono essere concordati con il docente.
Students are requested to write a paper, in Italian or in English (ca 3500 words). For further information please contact Prof. R. Chiaradonna.

Texts: the bibliography on topics will be shown during the courses.
The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the Texts-Bibliography shown above and during the lessons.

SUBJECT OF THE COURSE
“Ancient Greek inscriptions in Naxos (Cyclades).”

N.B. The indication of texts is merely orientative. Further and more accurate indications will be given during the course.

– Praktika tōn Panellēniōn Synedriōn me Thema "Hē Naxos dia Mesou tōn Aiōnōn", I-V, Athēna - Naxos 1994-2018.
– Chr. Constantakopoulou, The Dance of the Islands. Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World, Oxford 2007.
– M. B. Savo, Culti, sacerdozi e feste delle Cicladi dall'età arcaica all'età romana, I: Io, Nasso, Sifno, Serifo, Citno, Siro, Tivoli 2004, 75-259 (cap. 2).
– V. K. Lambrinoudakis, The emergence of the city-state of Naxos in the Aegean, in M-C. Lentini (ed.), The Two Naxos Cities: A Fine Link between the Aegean Sea and Sicily. Exhibition 14-30 June 2001, University of Athens, 6−31 July 2001, Archaeological Museum of the Island of Naxos, Palermo 2001, 13-22.
– V. Costa, Nasso dalle origini al V secolo a. C., Roma 1997.
– Fr. Hiller von Gaertringen, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII 5: Inscriptiones Cycladum (Ios, Sikinos, Naxos, Paros, Oliaros, Siphnos, Seriphos, Kythnos, Keos, Gyaros, Syros, Andros, Tenos), Berlin 1903-1909.

1. Romanticism in Italy and in Europe.
Characteristics of European Romanticism. Origins of the Romanticism in Italy. Romantic author's literary theory will be pointed out. Reading and interpreting shortlisted texts.
2. Reading and interpreting shortlisted passages by Gadda's Meditazione Milanese (some lessons).
Some lessons will be focusing problems of methodology in literary studies.

M. Puppo, Il Romanticismo, Roma, Studium, oppure
E. Raimondi, Romanticismo italiano e romanticismo europeo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori.
C. E. Gadda, Scritti vari e postumi, a cura di A. Silvestri, C. Vela, D. Isella e altri, Milano, Garzanti
Letteratura italiana. vol. 2 Dal Settecento ai nostri giorni, a cura di A. Battistini (capp. VI-VII-VIII-IX-X-XI)
Reading a literary masterpiece of the period, selected during the course, and a monography related to the same book.
Reading and interpreting two classical pieces of the Italian literature, to be chosen throughout the course (including appropriate introduction and explanatory notes).
Non-attending students will be requested to contact the professor for further bibliographical guidelines.

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- slides in ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- A.Cantile, Lineamenti di storia della Cartografia, Roma, Geoweb, 2013 (vol. I, Dalle origini al Cinquecento).
- D. Woodward, Cartografia a stampa nell'Italia del Rinascimento: produttori, distributori e destinatari, Bergamo 2002.

Christian Epigraphy (II Semester - 6 CFU)

The course will give the student a general knowledge of the Early Christian Epigraphy. Frontal lessons will be accompanied by exercises, that will provide the essential notions to make an epigraphic edition. Course attendance, even if not mandatory, is highly recommended.

Assignment:
C. Carletti, Epigrafia dei Cristiani in Occidente dal III al VII secolo: ideologia e prassi, Bari 2008.
Handouts for exercises will be provided during the lessons.

There will be analyzed some particularly important female figures who played an important role between the end of the Republic and the first decades of the Principality, first of all Livia and Antonia Minore. Their role will also be reconstructed with respect to the question of dynastic succession.

Svetonio- Vita di Augusto e di Tiberio (qualsiasi edizione)


P. Arena- A. Marcone- Augusto e la creazione del Principato. La questione dinastica, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2018
A. Momigliano, L'opera dell'imperatore Claudio (nuova ed. a cura di D. Faoro), Jouvence, Napoli 2016

G. Geraci-A. Marcone, Storia romana, Editio Maior, Roma-Bari 2017

Bibliografia aggiuntiva per i non frequentanti

P. Buongiorno, Claudio, Il principe inatteso, 21 Editore, Palermo 2017.

F. Guidetti, L'Impero romano in 100 date, Dalla Porta, Pisa 2016.

Foundations of pragmatics. Three main branches of pragmatics: philosophical, linguistic, sociological
Speech Acts theory. Implicitness in language. Presuppositions. Implicatures.
Deixis. Functional sentence perspective
Conversation Analysis
Interactional linguistics

Caffi Sei lezioni di pragmatica Carocci editore
Orletti Cos'è la linguistica interazionale Carocci

TITLE OF THE MODULE: On Augustine's fortune in the Middle Ages: the Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini attributed to Ugo di San Vittore (c. 1096-1141)

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: The module, of a monographic nature, intends first to retrace, broadly, the origins and types of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of the religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages - and then to analyze, with particular attention to the vocabulary and use of the sources, the Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini attributed to Hugh of St. Victor, a text so far little studied, nor edited critically, but not a secondary witness of Augustine's enduring influence on the religious life of the so-called XII century rebirth. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hugo de S. Victore (?), Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini, ed. PL 176, coll. 881-924.

2. D. Poirel, Ugo di San Vittore. Storia, scienza, contemplazione, trad. it., Ed. Jaca Book, Milano 1997.

3. M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.

The course provides the necessary skills to study all the fragmentary written materials from Antiquity, namely papyrus, ostraka, parchment, etc. Students will learn how to decypher and edit fragments of documents and literary works, and how to extract useful information in order to start and perform a historical, palaeographical and philological research. In particular, special consideration will be given to the phenomenon of language and graphic interaction between Greek and Latin that can be found in many fragments of documents and books from the 3rd to the 6th century AD in Egypt and other eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

The teacher will provide the students with all the needed study materials.

Students who cannot attend the course are requested to get in touch with the teacher before taking the exam.

The woman's body in the Christian imaginary: discourses and images from the Ancient and Medieval Christianity

The reflection on the female body and the manifold declinations of its instrumentalization, which has been set at the center of the contemporary debate by the feminist thought, is of current issue and controversy. How has the woman's body been represented by the Christian authors and the few Christian women writers during Ancient and Medieval Times? How has it been depicted inart ? The course aims to face the subject of the female body according to an historical perspective, considering such a body in its biological and cultural dimension, keeping in mind the most broadly shared medical and philosophical conceptions , the metaphoric language, the cultural models and the exegetical developments. Virgins, martyrs, mothers, martyrs, mothers, brides, widows, nuns: to each category corresponds a body, to whose plasmation contribute homilies of bishops, treatises on virginity, hagiographic novels, martyrs' passions, historiographical works, pictorial representations.
Students attending the course are required to write a short paper on a chosen topic .

For students who attend lectures
Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Emanuela Prinzivalli (a cura di), Le donne nello sguardo degli antichi autori cristiani, Trapani, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2013
A collection of diverse primary sources around several major themes will be provided during the course

Students who are not able to attend the lectures have to read
Kari Elisabeth Børresen, Emanuela Prinzivalli (a cura di), Le donne nello sguardo degli antichi autori cristiani, Trapani, Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2013
and one of the following books:
Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity,Columbia University Press, 2008
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women,University of California 1988.
Jacques Le Goff-Nicolas Truong, Une histoire du corps au Moyen Âge , Paris, L.Levi, 2003.
Aline Rousselle, Porneia : de la maîtrise du corps à la privation sensorielle, IIe-IVe siècles de l'ère chrétienne Paris , Presses universitaires de France , 1983

Synesius of Cyrene (4th-5th century CE) was both a brilliant student of neoplatonic philosophy at the pagan school of Alexandria and the christian bishop of Ptolemais.
In 405 he sent to his old teacher Hypatia a letter along with two then unpublished works: the first one was On Dio and the other was a brief treatise about dreams. In the latter work, as one can read at the end of the letter, Synesius put forward “doctrines entirely new to Hellenic philosophy”.
The class of Byzantine Civilisation for MA degree is dedicated to the analysis of the figure of Synesius – which is ambiguous only in appearance – and of his On Dreams. In particular, the class will deal with the reception of the work in late Byzantium. In fact, in the 14th century Synesius’s treaty was commented by two important Byzantine scholars, approximately in the same period. The examination of the text will be crucial to comprehend the most profound reasons which led some Byzantine intellectuals to become interested in Neoplatonic doctrines during the Palaiologan age.

OBLIGATORY TEXTS
E.R.Dodds, , Pagani e cristiani in un’epoca di angoscia (ed. it.), La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1970 (Ia ed.).
M.Simonetti, Classici e cristiani, Milano, Medusa Edizioni, 2007.
Sinesio, Opere, epistole, operette, inni, a cura di Garzya, A., UTET, Torino 1989, pp. 9-34.
Sinesio, I sogni, a cura di Susanetti, D., Adriatica Editrice, Bari 1992, pp. 11-30.

OPTIONAL TEXTS
Athanassiadi, P.,-Frede, M. (a cura di), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999.
Aujoulat, N., “Les avatars de la phantasia dans le Traité des songes de Synésios de Cyrène”, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 8 (1984), pp. 33-55.
Aujoulat, N., “Les avatars de la phantasia dans le Traité des songes de Synésios de Cyrène”, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 7 (1983), pp. 157-177.
Barnes, T. D., “Synesius in Constantinople”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 27/1 (1986), pp. 93-112.
Barnes, T. D., “When did Synesius become bishop of Ptolemais?”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 27/3 (1986), pp. 325-329.
Bregman, J., “Synesius of Cyrene”, in Gerson, L. P. (a cura di), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, vol. I, pp. 520-537.
Bregman, J., Synesius of Cyrene, Philosopher-Bishop, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Londra 1982.
Brown, P.,-Lizzi Testa, R. (a cura di), Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: a breaking of a dialogue. Proceedings of the International conference at the Monastery of Bose (Ottobre 2008), LIT, Zurigo 2011.
Cameron, A.,-Long, J., Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, Berkeley-Los Angeles-Oxford 1993.
Chuvin, P., “I filosofi e la loro religione nella società di Alessandria nel V secolo”, in Romano, F.,-Tiné, A. (a cura di), Questioni neoplatoniche, Università di Catania, Catania 1988, pp. 45-61.
Chuvin, P., Cronaca degli ultimi pagani (ed. it.), Paideia, Brescia 2012.
Di Pasquale Barbanti, M., Filosofia e cultura in Sinesio di Cirene, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1994.
Di Pasquale Barbanti, M., Ochema-pneuma e phantasia nel Neoplatonismo. Aspetti psicologici e prospettive religiose, CUECM, Catania 1998.
Hagl, W., Arcadius Apis Imperator. Synesios von Kyrene und sein Beitrag zum Herrscherideal der Spatantike, Franz Steiner, Stoccarda 1997.
Lacombrade, C., Sinesio: il trattato sui sogni (ed. it.), in Il sogno in Grecia, a cura di Guidorizzi, G., Laterza, Bari 1988, pp. 191-207.
Lacombrade, C., Synésios de Cyrène, hellène et chrétien, Les Belles Lettres, Parigi 1951.
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G., “Synesius and Municipal Politics of Cyrenaica in the 5th century AD”, Byzantion 55 (1985), pp. 146-164.
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G., “Why did Synesius become bishop of Ptolemais?”, Byzantion 56 (1986), pp. 180-195.
Marrou, H. I., “La «conversion» de Synésios”, Revue des études grecques 65 (1952) pp. 474-484.
Marrou, H. I., “Sinesio di Cirene e il neoplatonismo alessandrino” (ed. it.), in Momigliano, A. (a cura di), Il conflitto tra Paganesimo e Cristianesimo nel secolo IV, Einaudi, Torino 1968, pp. 139-164.
Neil, B., “Synesius of Cyrene on Dreams as a Pathway to the Divine”, Phronema 30/2 (2015), pp. 19-36.
Nicephori Gregorae Explicatio in librum Synesii «De Insomniis», scholia cum glossis, a cura di Pietrosanti, P., Levante Editori, Bari 1999.
Ronchey, S., Ipazia. La vera storia, Rizzoli, Milano 2010.
Roos, B. A., Synesius of Cyrene: A Study in His Personality, Lund University Press, Lund 1991.
Roques, D., “Synésios à Constantinople : 399-402”, Byzantion 65 (1995), pp. 405-439.
Roques, D., Synésios de Cyrène et la Cyrénaïque du Bas-Empire, Éditions du CNRS, Parigi 1987.
Schmitt, T., Die Bekehrung des Synesios von Kyrene, K. G. Saur, Monaco 2001.
Synésios de Cyrène, Opuscule I (vol. IV), a cura di Lamoureux, J.,-Aujoulat, N., Les Belles Lettres, Parigi 2004.
Synesius, De Insomniis. On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination, a cura di Russell, D. A.,-Nesselrath, H. G., Mohr Siebeck, Tubinga 2014.
Tanaseanu-Döbler, I., Konversion zur Philosophie in der Spätantike: Kaiser Julian und Synesios von Kyrene, Steiner, Stoccarda 2008.
Toulouse, S., “Synésios de Cyrène”, in Goulet, R. (a cura di), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques (vol. VI), CNRS, Parigi 2016.
Vollenweider, S., Neuplatonische und christliche Theologie bei Synesios von Kyrene, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottinga 1985.

"Cruel Venus": Seneca's Phaedra. In the course a full setting of the latin tragedy will be offered, together with a close reading in latin, an italian interpretation and a commentary of Seneca's play, paying particular attention to aspects of dramaturgy and poetic shape (models, esp. Euripides' Hippolytus, metrics, style).

- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, Roma, Carocci, 2011
- Further bibliography will be given at the beginning of the course.

Women's protests between tragedy and elegy: Ovid's Heroides.

Istituzioni di Filologia Latina (testo a cura della docente).
A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 1992.
Publio Ovidio Nasone, Lettere di eroine, introduzione, traduzione e note di Gianpiero, Rosati, Milano 1989

1. Romanticism in Italy and in Europe.
Characteristics of European Romanticism. Origins of the Romanticism in Italy. Romantic author's literary theory will be pointed out. Reading and interpreting shortlisted texts.
2. Reading and interpreting shortlisted passages by Gadda's Meditazione Milanese (some lessons).
Some lessons will be focusing problems of methodology in literary studies.

M. Puppo, Il Romanticismo, Roma, Studium, oppure
E. Raimondi, Romanticismo italiano e romanticismo europeo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori.
C. E. Gadda, Scritti vari e postumi, a cura di A. Silvestri, C. Vela, D. Isella e altri, Milano, Garzanti
Letteratura italiana. vol. 2 Dal Settecento ai nostri giorni, a cura di A. Battistini (capp. VI-VII-VIII-IX-X-XI)
Reading a literary masterpiece of the period, selected during the course, and a monography related to the same book.
Reading and interpreting two classical pieces of the Italian literature, to be chosen throughout the course (including appropriate introduction and explanatory notes).
Non-attending students will be requested to contact the professor for further bibliographical guidelines.

This course aims to offer an in-depth knowledge of a foundational text of Italian literature, the "Vita nova" by Dante Alighieri, which will be read and discussed in its entirety. This juvenile work is a crucial text in relation to both Dante's experience as a poet and the development of Italian literature in the thirteenth century as a whole, as well as with regard to the influence that it exerted on later authors such as Petrarch. A lecture will be devoted to the afterlife of this work; special attention will be devoted to the British painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and to his artistic elaboration of the "Vita nova".

Dante ALIGHIERI, 'Vita nova', a cura di Stefano Carrai, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2009

NB: those students who won't attend lectures are asked to read the 'Vita nova' not in the edition edited by Carrai, but rather in the one edited by Pirovano (introduction, 'nota al testo' and commentary included): Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita nuova, a cura di Donato Pirovano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle Opere di Dante, I. Vita nuova – Rime, ed. by D. Pirovano and Marco Grimaldi, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015, pp. 1-289

Bambo's 'Asolani' and the renaissance dialogue

The texts of the Asolani and other dialogues will be made available online on the lecturer's web site

DCourse description: The history of our language can also be read and studied using the grammars that, over time, have described and codified it and which mirror the particular historical moments in which they were written. The module deals with the birth of Italian grammar and its evolution in diachrony focusing on the main temporal junctions and the most important works: from the 15th century Grammatichetta of the Tuscan language by Leon Battista Alberti to the major grammars of our day.

ibliografia:

- S. Fornara (2005), Breve storia della grammatica italiana, Roma, Carocci.
- G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, L. Tomasin (a cura di) (2018), Storia, dell’italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche, Roma, Carocci: capp. III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII (in dispense messe a disposizione dal docente).