Roman Epigraphy
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2024-2025
01010954
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Theory: Exposição dos principais conteúdos programáticos. Theoretical-practical: Inteactive part based on a constant observation and analysis of images (epígraphs). Practical: Exercises.
Use of PowerPoint presentations as teaching aids.
Several written tests will be given during the semester, in accordance with the periodic assessment schedule.
Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:
- identify the different types of Latin inscriptions
- master the basic (but essential) notions of Latin epigraphy
- read and translate some Roman inscriptions
- comment on an inscription from an historical and paleographical perspective
- identify the anthroponymy or theonomy in an historical context
- understand how people are identified, a cursus honorum or an imperial title
- understand the rules which a good epigraphy should follow
- identify the value of an epigraphic monument as an important source of historical knowledge for the study of Antiquity at various levels.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. The epigraphic studies: concept, importance, contributes and future research prospects.
2. The inscriptions and their study: from the typological description of the epigraphic monument to the historic commentary
3. Some basic notions of epigraphic Latin and the most frequent acronyms and abbreviations.
4. The Latin name: anthroponomy and onomastic structure.
5. The main types of epigraphs: votive, funerary, honorific, monumental and road inscriptions (base structure of the texts / formularies)
6. Epigraphy as an important documental source and a source of historical knowledge: the social status, religion, culture, administrative life and other aspects of social and private everyday life.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Resolution Problems: 10.0%
In class participation: 10.0%
Frequency: 80.0%
Bibliography
ENCARNAÇÃO, José d' (1987): Introdução ao Estudo da Epigrafia Latina, Coimbra.
ENCARNAÇÃO, José d' (2006): As Pedras que Falam, Imprensa da Universidade, Coimbra.
LASSÈRE, Jean-Marie (2005): Manuel d´Épigraphie Romaine, Ed. Picard, Paris.
VV.AA. (2009): Fundamentos de Epigrafía Latina, Coord. Javier ANDREU, Ed. Liceus, Servicios de Gestión y Comunicación S. L., Madrid.