History
History – Master’s Degree 2014
Recommended Year of Study: 1
Recommended Semester: 1
ECTS Credits Allocated: 6.00
Roman Epigraphy
Status: optional Recommended Year of Study: 1
Recommended Semester: 1
ECTS Credits Allocated: 6.00
Pre-requisites: Passed exams in the subjects of Roman History, Latin, Latin Epigraphy (undergraduate studies). Knowledge of Ancient Greek is desirable.
Course objectives: Orienting students to understand, comment on and critically analyze epigraphical sources from roman history.
Course description: Reading and interpreting epigraphical texts that are representative of particular aspects of roman political, institutional, social and cultural history.
Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to independently work with epigraphical sources from roman history at a masters and doctorate level.
Literature/Reading:
- J.-M. Lassère, Manuel d’épigraphie romaine, Paris 2005.
- I. Calabi Limentani, Epigrafia latina, Milano 1968.
- R. Cagnat, Cours d’épigraphie latine, Paris 1914.
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, Berlin 1892-1916.
- E. Diel, Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, Berlin-Dublin-Zürich 1925-1967.
- Carmina Latina epigraphica, I-II, izd. F. Bücheler, Lipsiae 1895-1897. III. Supplementum, izd. E. Lommatzsch, 1926.
- I.B. De Rossi, Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae septimo saeculo antiquiores I-III, Romae 1857-1915; A. Silvagni et alii, Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae. Nova series. Romae 1922-
- J.S. and A.E. Gordon, Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions, Los Angeles 1958-1965.
- L. Robert, Épigraphie, u: L’histoire et ses méthodes, Paris 1961, 453-497 (Encyclopédie de la Pléiade)
- V. Ehrenberg, A.H.M. Jones, Documents illustrating the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, Oxford 21955.
- E.M. Smallwood, Documents illustrating the principates of Gaius, Claudius and Nero, Cambridge 1967.
- M. McCrum, A.G. Woodhead, Select documents of the principates of the Flavian Emperors including the year of revolution A.D. 68-69, Cambridge 1961.
- E.M. Smallwood, Documents illustrating the principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian, Cambridge 1966.
- Roman Statutes. Ed. M.H. Crawford et alii. London 1996.
- R. Cagnat et collaborateurs, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, I, III, IV, Paris 1906-1927.
- R.K. Sherk, Roman documents from the Greek East. Senatus consulta and epistulae to the age of Augustus. Baltimore 1969.
- J.H. Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri, Philadelphia 1989.
