The Department of Classical & Romance Philology of the University of Oviedo (Spain) will host the International Online Summer School on Latin Language through Epigraphy from 12 to 16 June, 2023.
All the classes will be held in English, every day in the afternoon from 14 to 18.45 (Central European Time).
The school will consider the Latin inscriptional sources from the Archaic to the Modern period (7th c. BC – 18th c. AD) with a main linguistic focus.
Prerequisites: Latin skills are highly desirable. Previous knowledge of Epigraphy is not required.
Topics: The World of Roman Epigraphy, The Inscriptions of the Christians, Elements of Latin Palaeography, Latin Epigraphy in the Middle Ages, A History of the Latin Alphabet, The Language of the Archaic Inscriptions, The Latinization of the Roman West, Misspelled Inscriptions & Latin Dialectology, Versification, Roman Prosody & Quantitative Problems in Latin Verse Inscriptions, Literary Aspects of Latin Verse Inscriptions, The Latin Case System in the Inscriptional Evidence, The Development of Latin as Reflected by Roman Names, Latin Epigraphy & Lexicography, The Latin Language in Roman Juridical Inscriptions, Roman Graffiti & Latin Obscene Vocabulary, The Language of Magic, Medieval Inscriptions in Latin, The Substitution of Latin for French in the Inscriptions of the Middle Ages, Recuperation of Forms & Formulas of Classical Epigraphy in the Early Renaissance, The Use of Latin in Eighteenth Century Epigraphy.
Instructors: Flavia De Rubeis (Venice), Xavier Espluga (Barcelona), María José Estarán Tolosa (Zaragoza), Antonio Enrico Felle (Bari), Concepción Fernández Martínez (Seville), Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (Poitiers), Roberta Marchionni (Munich), Eduard Meusel (Munich), Francisco Javier Molina de la Torre (Valladolid), Szilvia Nemes (Budapest), Nóra Paulus (Budapest), Olli Salomies (Helsinki), Pedro Manuel Suárez-Martínez (Oviedo), Silvia Tantimonaco (Oviedo) Daniela Urbanová (Brno).
Course duration:
20 hours
Fee
70€ until April 1
90€ until May 31
More information here
Registration form: https://n9.cl/wncxo
Contact: classicsonline@uniovi.es
This Summer School is under the auspices of the Spanish Society for Classical Studies – Delegation of Asturias and Cantabria (SEEC Asturias y Cantabria) and the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (AIEGL).
Note: this is a fee-paying event run by an organisation which is not affiliated to, or funded by, the Classical Association