Latin Epigraphy

The course aims at providing a detailed knowledge of the Latin Epigraphy, with particular regard as to the methods employed in reading, analyzing and interpreting Latin epigraphical documents.

Knowledge: upon successful completion of the course students are expected to acquire the critical and methodological instruments which are necessary to read and interpret Latin inscriptions, and to employ the most used epigraphical corpuses and inventories.

Skills: students are also expected to develop abilities to compile an epigraphical file, namely to transcribe, integrate and interpret Latin inscriptions. Such abilities shall be employed to reconstruct various aspects of the political, institutional and administrative history of Rome.