Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2503702 Ancient Studies | OB | 3 | 2 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 3 | 2 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 4 | 2 |
There is no previous requirement, but it is highly recommended to have passed the first and second year subjects on classical languages and archeology.
At the end of the course, the student will have to be able to:
1.1. Epigraphy. Definition. Epigraphy, history, philology and archaeology.
1.2. Tools for the study of epigraphy: corpora, databases and prosopographic repertoires.
2. The oldest known inscriptions and the problems of the archaeological context.
3. The inscribed object: matter, form and function. Public and private epigraphy. Monumental epigraphy. Milestones, legal inscriptions and instrumenta inscripta domestica et publica: diplomata militaria, amphorae, laterculi, fistulae aquariae.
4. The elaboration of the epigraphic monument. Extraction of the material: quarries, tools and craftsmen. The officina epigraphica: artisans and techniques (minute, pagination, epigraphic field, letter-carving).
5. The epigraphic text. Writing systems. Alphabets and Greek epigraphic writing. Alphabet and Latin epigraphic writing. Formulas and abbreviations. Its graphic development up the 2nd century CE. Aspects of historical phonetics deriving from Roman Republican inscriptions.
6.1. Male and female onomastic formulas. Historical evolution. Citizens and foreigners. Slaves and freedmen.
6.2. Archaeological context of funerary inscriptions: the necropolis.
6.3. Funerary inscriptions.
7.1. Archaeological context of votive inscriptions: templa and sanctuaries.
7.2. The votive inscriptions. The Greek-Roman pantheon.
8.1. Archaeological context of honorary inscriptions: agora, forum, monumenta.
8.2. The senatorial and equestrian cursus honorum. Local magistrates. Onomastics and imperial titulature.
8.3. The honorary inscriptions.
9. Inscriptions on public works.
10. Greek and Roman inscriptions in Catalonia.
11. The reception of classical epigraphy in the Renaissance.
The teaching methodology of this subject will consist of alternating the theoretical explanations about each one of the topics listed above with the completion of a series of practical exercises that will help the students to become familiar with the reading and interpretation of the epigraphic texts.
Theoretical content. It will be taught in master classes, aimed at offering the knowledge (linguistic, historical, archaeological, etc.) necessary to be able to read and contextualize an inscription. In these sessions, the relationship of the epigraphic text itself with its linguistic and palaeographic characteristics, with the inscribed object, with its archaeological context, etc. will be emphasized.
Practical content. It will be taught in the master classes and it will illustrate the theoretical contents by reading and commenting the inscriptions.
Personal work. The student will have to carry out a continuous work throughout the course, both in class and autonomously, on a set of inscriptions that will be delivered at the beginning of the course in the form of dossier. The student will have to be responsible for carrying daily the recommended work of translation and comment.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Explanation of theoretical content | 33 | 1.32 | 5, 11, 6, 14, 12, 2 |
Practice of reading, analyzing and commenting inscriptions | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 11, 2 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Monitoring personal work | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 13, 10, 2 |
Reading, interpretation and commentary of inscriptions | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 6, 8, 7, 2 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Commentary of inscriptions | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 6, 13, 7, 3, 10, 2 |
Complementary readings | 10 | 0.4 | 12 |
Study of the theoretical content | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 10, 12 |
Use of epigraphy study tools | 5 | 0.2 | 8, 12, 2 |
I. Exercises and evaluation tests
The evaluation of the student will be made from:
1. Class participation (10%)
2. Partial test [§ 2-6.1] (20%)
3. Personal commentary of an inscription (15%)
4. Work on contextual aspects (15%)
5. Final synthesis test (40%)
II. Conditions to be evaluated
Not assessable.
If the faculty do not have two or more evidences of those described above from a registered student, he/she will be classified as "not assessable".
Assessable.
If the faculty has two or more assessable evidences of the student (exercises, tests ...), he / she will be evaluate on the “fail to excellent (Distinction)” scale, according to the percentages mentioned in the corresponding section.
To pass the course (from “pass” to “distinction” grades), the student, at a minimum, will have to:
• Have obtained a score ≥ 4 in the final synthesis exercise.
• Have completed 2 of the three works proposed in points 2, 3 and 4.
In case the sum of the weights of the marks is 5, but one of the above requirement is not met, the student will be scored with a 4.5 (fail).
III. Reassessment terms
To be able to present to the reassessment exam, the student:
• must have an average mark of at least 3.5
• must have previously been evaluated in a set of activities, the weight of which is equal to at least 2/3 of the whole mark.
In the reassessment test the student will only be able to re-evaluate the part corresponding to the final exercise (40%).
IV. Mark review procedure
The student has the right to review all the periodic exercises, the partial and final exams and the assignments, in class and / or in the tutorial hours.
The day for the revision of the provisional final mark and the revision of the reassessment test, will be announced in the minutes.
The student has the obligation to check the minutes of the marks before its validation, in order to ensure that there has been no error in the transfer of marks by the faculty.
Plagiarism
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Active participation during the course | 10% | 0 | 0 | 11, 13, 7, 4, 3, 2 |
Analysis and commentary of an inscription | 15% | 7 | 0.28 | 1, 5, 11, 13, 14, 8, 7, 3, 9, 10, 12, 2 |
Final synthesis test | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 11, 6, 13, 7, 10, 2 |
Partial test | 20% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 6, 13, 7, 10, 2 |
Work on contextual aspects | 15% | 7 | 0.28 | 1, 5, 11, 7, 4, 3 |
Archaeological context in general:
ALCOCK, SUSAN E.; OSBORNE, ROBIN (ed.) (2012). Classical archaeology, Malden.
BODEL, JOHN P. (ed.) (2001). Epigraphic evidence: ancient history from inscriptions. London.
BODEL, JOHN; DIMITROVA, NORA (ed.) (2014). Ancient Documents and Their Contexts: First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (2011), Leiden / Boston.
ECK, WERNER (1996). Tra epigrafia, prosopografia e archeologia: scritti scelti, rielaborati ed aggiornati. Vetera, 10. Roma.
Throughout the course, further references will be provided to specific publications (or to parts of more extensive publications).
Corpora and periodicals:
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique = BCH.
Bulletin Epigraphique = Bull. Ep.
Carmina epigrafica graeca = CEG.
Carmina latina epigraphica = CLE
Corpus Inscriptionum latinarum= CIL
Corpus Instriptionum Graecarum= CIG
Inscriptiones graecae= IG
Inscriptions Romaines de Catalogne=IRC
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum = SEG.
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE).
Greek and Latin epigraphy manuals:
BÉRARD, FRANÇOIS; FEISSEL, DENIS; PETITMENGIN, PIERRE; ROUSSET, DENIS; SÈVE, MICHEL (2000). Guide de l'épigraphiste, Paris.
RÉMY, BERNARD; KAYSER, FRANÇOIS (1999). Initiation à l'épigraphie grecque et latine. Paris.
On Greek epigraphy:
CORTÉS COPETE, JUAN MANUEL (ed.) (1999). Epigrafía griega. Madrid.
GUARDUCCI, MARGHERITA (1987). L'epigrafia greca dalle origine al Tardo Impero. Roma.
MCLEAN, BRADLEY H. (2002). An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great down to the Reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337). Michigan.
BERTRAND, JEAN-MARIE (1992). Inscriptions historiques grecques, traduites et commentées. Paris. [No incorpora el text grec, però les traduccions i els comentaris poden ser d'utilitat.]
MEIGGS, RUSSELL; LEWIS, DAVID M. (1971). A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford (rv. 1989) = ML.
HOZ, MARÍA PAZ de (2014). Inscripciones griegas de España y Portugal. Madrid. = IGEP.
RODRÍGUEZ SOMOLINOS, HELENA (1998). "Inscriptiones Graecae antiquissimae Iberiae" (IGAI). In: JULIO MANGAS; DOMINGO PLÁCIDO (eds.). Testimonia Hispaniae Antiquae II/A, Madrid.
On Latin epigraphy:
ANDREU, JAVIER (coord.) (2009). Fundamentos de epigrafía latina, Madrid.
BRUUN, CHRISTER; EDMONDSON, JONATHAN (eds.) (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, Oxford-New York.
BUONOPANE, ALFREDO (20091, 20212). Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma.
CALABI, IDA (19914). Epigrafia latina, Milano.
COOLEY, ALISON E. (2012). The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge.
CORBIER, PAUL (2006). L’épigraphie Latine, Paris.
No specific software is required.