Classics

Educational objectives

The Italian Philology course will provide the student with a fundamental knowledge in the field of textual criticism, with special reference to the transmission of texts and to the operations required in order to prepare a critical edition. During the lessons students will learn to face concrete case studies, in order to put into practice the knowledge received. At the end of the course students should have acquired the capacity to read and to interpret a critical edition, with special attention to the scientific problems connected to the methodology of the reconstruction of the text. Through frontal lessons, practical exercises and the study of scientific essays and articles concerning important themes of the discipline, students will develop knowledge and understanding abilities in the field of Italian philology and also the ability to communicate the information received, to illustrate the related problems and possible solutions, so that they can eventually be understood in a non-specialistic field.

Educational objectives

The course aims to illustrate the relationship between language and writing; after a brief overview of the fundamental concepts of phonology and phonetics, and after having illustrated the main types of logographic and phonographic writing systems, we will try to expose the methodological and practical principles used by historical linguists to deduce linguistic realities from scripts used to represent ancient languages, especially Latin and Greek.

Educational objectives

This course provides students with basic knowledge in literary and documentary papyrology so that they can develop an autonomous ability to connect what they learnt with the other cultural and historical disciplines of Graeco-Roman antiquity.

Educational objectives

The course aims to present, through a critical analysis of the historical and archaeological sources, the organization of pre-Roman Italy and its development in the first millennium BC, between the Iron Age and the Romanization.

Educational objectives

1 Get acquainted with the foundations of Western thought in the form of the ‘Pre-Platonic’ philosophers, and gain insight into and access to one or more of the 'founding fathers' of philosophy, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle;
2 Understand the importance and implications of central issues and foundational problems of ancient philosophy within the field of philosophy and their historical context;
3 Be able to read ancient Greek texts in translation and acquire a basic knowledge of the most basic Greek terminology;
4 Devise sustained and evaluative arguments related to the interpretation and analysis of these issues;
5 Develop skills in critical analysis and argument and engage with current research related to primary and secondary sources;