Classics

«Books and documents in the multicultural society of Graeco-Roman Egypt». This course offers an introduction to the Greek and Latin literary and documentary papyri as sources for the study of the multicultural society of Egypt under Ptolemaic and Roman rule.

It is helpful for students to have a good knowledge of classical Greek.

1) (a) R.S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 3-100, 149-169, 216-281, 320-337, 395-451, 590-622; (b) P. Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish (London: Orion, 2007); (c) K. Vandorpe (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell, 2019), pp. 35-69, 103-138, 147-178, 283-313, 381-393, 429-438, 449-471. (2) Papyrus texts that will be discussed in class.

Regular attendance is recommended.

A written exam at the end of the course will be used to assess the student learning outcomes. The exam will yield the relevant information needed to determine the level of a student’s acquisition of key competences, as well as the level of their ability to communicate them. In order to pass the exam, students must get a mark of 18/30, and must show to have acquired a basic knowledge of one of the course topics. In order to get a mark of 30/30 cum laude, students must show to have acquired excellent knowledge of all the course topics.

Subject matter and skills will be taught to, and learned by, students in a variety of ways. Face-to-face teaching will help students acquire key competences. Emphasis will also be put on seminars and group-based discussion, which will enable students not only critically to read the previously edited texts, but also to develop their own intellectual and practical skills.