Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities" and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.
• Practical lectures.
• Individual work.
• Personal study.
• Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

The course will address the following topics:

Lectures.

• Literacy and epigraphy. Introduction to Greek epigraphy. Introduction to the epigraphies of the fragmentary languages.
• Latin epigraphy: 'epigraphic habit' and epigraphic culture; personal onomastics; main types: content and support; autopsy, critical edition and management of corpora; Imperial epigraphy; epigraphy of senators, knights and decurions: the prosopographical method.

Practice sessions.

• Reading and commentary of Greek inscriptions. Reading and commentary of Paleoitalic, Gaulish and Paleohispanic inscriptions. Management of major corpora and databases.
• Reading and commentary of Latin inscriptions, particularly concerning emperors, senators, knights and decurions. Management of major corpora, databases and prosopographic repertoires. 

Field work.

• Visit to an epigraphic collection: autopsy, photographic record and autopsy field.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

• [1. Cultura escrita y alfabetización] - Harris, William V.. Ancient literacy / William V. Harris . Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 1989
• [2. Epigrafía griega] - Epigrafía griega / Juan Manuel Cortés Copete (ed.), Francisco Eduardo Alvarez ... [et al.] . Madrid : Cátedra, D.L. 1999
• [2. Epigrafía griega] - Guarducci, Margherita. L' epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero Roma, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1987
• [3. Epigrafía latina] - Fundamentos de epigrafía latina / Coordinador, J. Andreu Pintado ; Autores, J. Andreu Pintado ... [et al.] ; Prólogo, Á. Donati ; Índices analíticos, D. Espinosa . 1a. ed. en Liceus Madrid : Liceus, 2009
• [3. Epigrafía latina] - Lassère, Jean Marie. Manuel d'epigraphie romaine / Jean-Marie Lassère . Paris : Picard, 2005
• [3. Epigrafía latina] - Solin, Heikki. Repertorium nominum gentilium et cognominum Latinorum / curaverunt, Heikki Solin et Olli Salomies . Hildesheim ; New York : Olms, 1988
• [3. Epigrafía latina] - Susini, G. C.. Epigrafia romana / Di G. C. Susini . Roma : Juvence, 1982
• [4. Otras epigrafías mediterráneas] - Aragón antiguo : fuentes para su estudio / Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad, Universidad de Zaragoza ; [Francisco Marco Simón, Gabriel Sopeña Genzor y Francisco Pina Polo, coordinadores ; edición a cargo de Gabriel Sopeña Genzor] ; . 1a. ed. Zaragoza : Grupo Hiberus, Gobierno de Aragón [etc], 201 [Beltrán F., Jordán C., Díaz, B. : ?Las fuentes epigráficas?, pp. 191-390]
• [4. Otras epigrafías mediterráneas] - Jordán Cólera, Carlos. Celtibérico / Carlos Jordán Cólera . Zaragoza : [Ediciones del Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad, Área de Filología Griega, Universidad de Zaragoza], 2004
• [4. Otras epigrafías mediterráneas] - Lambert, Pierre-Yves. La langue gauloise : Description linguistique, commentaire d'inscriptions choisies / Pierre-Yves Lambert. Paris : Errance, D.L. 1994
• [4. Otras epigrafías mediterráneas] - Marchesini, Simona. Le lingue frammentaire dell?Italia antica Milano: Hoepli, 2009