Classics

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the Discipline; it proposes geographical areas and sectorial perspectives in which related projects are activated; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical epochs and cultural contexts.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Philology of Italian Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at an introduction to the methods of textual philology and textal criticism: source (manuscripts and ancient printings), recontruction of the process of transmission, the critical edition, the textual tradition of Italian classics, problems of attribution.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Modern-Greek Language and Literature with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with the essential notions of Modern-Greek Language and Literature.

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This advanced course in Indo-European linguistics is an optional course for students of the degree program in Classics with a good knowledge of Greek and Latin. The course aims at offering students the scientific and methodological tools necessary to correctly apply the comparative-reconstructive method, in all of its potentialities and taking into account its limits. The course has an "empirical" cut, such that the students will find themselves reconstructing the phonological and morphological systems of the Proto-Indo-European based on the direct application of the comparative-reconstructive method to the lexical correspondences lists.
The topics covered in this course are the most technical, but also the most exciting part of Historical Linguistics. For students it is a unique opportunity to acquire an appropriate and rigorous heuristic method in
ascertaining the kinship between languages, accurately distinguishing what is genealogically inherited from what depends on borrowings, linguistic contact or chance. Indo-European Linguistics does not usually
constitute a degree course because it is a discipline considered too old-fashioned and too difficult, since it presupposes the knowledge of at least two or three ancient languages; however, only advanced courses of this kind allow students to independently continue their studies in the field of Historical Linguistics.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Byzantine Civilization, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, students will acquire basic skills to use critical and methodological tools related to general aspects of the history of the Byzantine civilization. Students will be able to read literary texts of the Byzantine era (starting from philological, linguistic, stylistic, historical and literary point of view) from a critical perspective and interpret them through modern methodology related to scientific discussion.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Medieval Latin Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with the acquisition of language skills, historical-cultural and critical categories and bibliographical directing that are indispensable for the study of a subject which, by chronological extension (V sec.-XV sec.), quantity and quality of texts produced, stands as the foundation of Western culture.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies.

The course concerns archaeological and philological studies on Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The deciphering of Linear B (1952), the sillabographic system created during the II millennium by the Mycenaean palaces to write Greek language, opened a new line of research on Aegean topics to be added to archeology: the Mycenaean philology. Archeology and philology differ because of their methodologies and analytic strategies, but together they represent an essential and fundamental instrument of the study of the phenomenon of Minoan and Mycenaean civilization.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Greek and Roman Archaeology, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course, based on the primary evidence from the material culture and excavations, introduces to the monumental architecture of Greek and Roman world: the aim is to explore the different aspects of the decorative system and the typological forms used in the public and sacred space as well as in the domestic sphere.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Roman Law, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, students are required to acquire: 1) knowledge about Roman political and constitutional events, sources of law, law enforcement and criminal procedure; 2) instruments of research in Roman law (fontes, lexicon, bibliography, digital archives).

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Greek Epigraphy, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with the basic notions of Greek Epigraphy.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Latin Epigraphy, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with the essential notions of Latin Epigraphy.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Civilization of pre-Roman Italy, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course offers an organic synthesis of the development of the different civilizations existing in pre-Roman Italy, based on historical sources, landscape analysis and archaeological evidence.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of General Linguistics, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, students will acquire a knowledge of the main currents of modern linguistics and issues discussed, highlighting problematic aspects, allowing the acquisition of a reliable methodology for operational analysis.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of the Didactics of Greek with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with some more advanced notions of Greek Language, Grammar and Literature and with competences and skills, that are necessary for school teaching, and up-to-date methodologies in teaching Greek. Through a close study of highly significant texts of Greek literature, students will be able to learn the principles on which didactics have been carried out in the past and what resources modern didactics offer to improve the quality of teaching.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Latin Language and Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with some more advanced notions of Latin Language, Grammar and Literature, with particular attention to some study cases.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Classical Philology, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, formulating autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with some more advanced notions of Classical Philology, with particular attention to some case studies, chiefly with regard to the history of Greek and Latin language, Greek dialectology, and the creation of literary languages.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Ancient Christian Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with an introduction to the study of the discipline, posing the authors in the historical and religious context of their era and highlighting the diversity of literary genres they use in their work (with a wonderful blend of traditional elements and specific contents of the Christian kerygma).

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Byzantine Civilization, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, students will acquire basic skills to use critical and methodological tools related to general aspects of the history of the Byzantine civilization. Students will be able to read literary texts of the Byzantine era (starting from philological, linguistic, stylistic, historical and literary point of view) from a critical perspective and interpret them through modern methodology related to scientific discussion. The course will address the analysis of some important case studies.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Mediolatin Language and Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with theoretical and practical translation skills applied to Byzantine and Latin medieval texts.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with the essential notions of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of History of the Ancient Near Eaest, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course aims at providing students with the methodological and conceptual bases of the History of the Ancient Near East and dealing with its general development, from the formative periods to the Achaemenid Persian conquest, in order to offer a clear chronological and geographical frame related to the main documentary sources.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Hebrew Language and Literature, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular,
the course aims at providing students with philological and literary analysis of Hebrew texts and questions of transmission and study of these texts.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Social Anthropology, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with the essential notions of Social Anthropology.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Moral Philosophy, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with the essential notions of Moral Philosophy.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of History of Ancient Philosophy, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, prime target will be the contact and direct knowledge of the texts under consideration, to enable the student to understand and discuss them with philological accuracy and appropriate expertise hermeneutic, even against the backdrop of appropriate referrals to mainstream historiography on ancient thought.

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In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Greek Palaeography, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies. In particular, the course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the palaeographical method and the history of Greek handwriting – from the 4th century B.C. to the European Renaissance –, by using examples of Greek handwritings that students will be able to read, date and locate.

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The aim of the course is to provide students with an overview of the main turning points in the history of Latin writing (from Roman period to the Renaissance), together with the conceptual and lexical tools specific to palaeographic work, in order to acquire historical knowledge of the evolution of Latin writing and, at the same time, the ability to describe, evaluate, transcribe and interpret evidence from the past written in Latin and in the vernacular, mainly Old Italian [Dublin descriptor 1]. Students will be taught to consider written records not only as evidence of a graphic fact and a mere object of palaeographic knowledge, but also as a testimony to the written culture of the past (in the broadest sense, which includes pragmatic written culture) and as a graphic mediation of the literacy of a society, inextricably linked therefore, to the medium that transmits it (in all its various material forms), to the tools and tecniques of writing, to the cultural, social, legal and political contexts and systems of its genesis and to those contemporary and subsequent contexts and systems, which enabled or determined its transmission, preservation and destruction [Dublin descriptor 2]. The course exercises, as well as the ongoing and final assessments – both written and oral – are designed to develop students’ independent judgement and their ability to communicate their knowledge and opinions in writing and orally [Dublin descriptors 3-5].

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.

Educational objectives

The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.