The resources at your disposal for the Doctorate in Linguistic History of the Ancient Mediterranean.
Profiles
History, linguistics and culture of the Aegean
Philology and Minoan-Mycenaean epigraphy
Linguistic and cultural history of ancient Italy
Philology and Italian epigraphy
Duration of the Doctorate
3 years
The PhD in Linguistic History of the Ancient Mediterranean aims to provide specific expertise on the linguistic and cultural events of the central-eastern Mediterranean area, with specific reference to Greece and the Aegean basin for the second millennium and to ancient central-southern and insular Italy for the first millennium.
Due to the high specificity of the skills required, which range from linguistic data to philological, epigraphic and archaeological data, involving complex research areas and techniques, it seems appropriate to articulate the activity of the doctorate itself on two alternating curricula in successive cycles, that is, with reference to the second millennium, a curriculum in Aegean languages and cultures, in reference to the first millennium a curriculum in Languages and cultures of ancient Italy.
Curriculum in Aegean Languages and Cultures: The doctoral course aims to provide, over the three years, highly specialized skills in the field of languages, scriptures and cultures of the Aegean of the second millennium, with particular reference to the Greek continental area, Crete in Cyprus and the Cyclades.
The chronological focus will be identified in the Middle (XXI-XVI centuries BC) and Late Minoan (XVI-XIII centuries BC) for Crete, corresponding to the proto- and neopalatial phases, and these skills will be deployed in the field of epigraphy and philology of Minoan and Mycenaean, Mycenaean and Greek linguistics, in Aegean archaeology, thus being expressed prevalently in the scientific-disciplinary areas L-FIL-LET/01 (Aegean Civilization) and L/LIN/01 (Glottology and Linguistics). The students who have just finished their studies will be given an overview of the linguistic and cultural events that have taken place in the second millennium (and of their repercussions in the first millennium) in the entire Aegean basin, as far as Cyprus.
It will also investigate the relationship between the documentary realia of the second millennium and their poetic "rereading" by Homer, thus reaching the dawn of Greek (and European) literature.
The training of the post-graduates in the scientific areas outlined above is organically framed within the cultural history of Europe and the Mediterranean, which has its beginnings precisely in the period of reference of the doctorate. In particular Crete, since its first pre and protohistoric manifestations, since the end of the 19th century has been one of the places that has seen the most intense scientific, cultural and political presence in Italy (of which interest is, for the period of relevance of the doctorate, the exemplary activity of the Italian Mission, to whose first director, Federico Halbherr, we owe the discovery of the Minoan sites of Festo and Hagia Triada, as well as, for the next millennium, the great inscription of Gortina).
Also for this reason, the island will be the focus of the entire scientific and educational activity.
Curriculum in Languages and Cultures of Ancient Italy: the doctoral course aims to provide, over the three-year period, highly specialized skills in the field of languages, writings and cultures of ancient central-southern and insular Italy. Areas of particular interest will be, in addition to the Italian languages (Sudpiceno, epigraphic Sabino, languages 'Sabelliche', Umbro, pre-Sannite Osco, Sannite Osco, Bruzio) also the Latin archaic, Etruscan, Falisco, Messapico and Siculo. The chronological period in question is based on the first epigraphic documents present in Italy from the seventh century BC (without excluding, however, the previous Greek), until the Roman conquest.
However, some example of emergence belonging to the previous millennium (Aeolian Islands, Agrigento area) will also be considered.
Particular attention will be given to linguistic and cultural reflection, to social and institutional aspects and to ideological and cultural aspects.
The students will be asked to select, rework and synthesize the results of numerous previous research projects on specific topics: an attempt to fill in, as far as possible, the still evident absence of an interdisciplinary study on the area in question.
Among the primary areas of observation, there will be Sicily and the lands overlooking the southern Tyrrhenian Sea where the Greek culture of importation and the indigenous ones, previously allocated to them, have interacted more intensely, giving rise to processes of cultural syncretism.
Tenured staff in Italian universities | Non-tenured staff in Italian universities |
Prof. Giovanni Colonna Sapienza University of Rome |
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Prof.ssa Maria Cristina Chiaramonte University of Milan |
Prof. Filippo Coarelli University of Perugia |
Prof. Carlo Consani University of G. D'Annunzio, Chieti - Pescara |
Prof. Celestina Milan Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan |
Prof.ssa Federica Cordano University of Milan | Prof. Adriano La Regina Sapienza University of Rome |
Prof. Giulio Facchetti University of Insubria, Varese |
Prof. Francesco Aspesi University of Milan |
Prof.ssa Annalisa Franchi De Bellis University Urbino Studies "Carlo Bo" |
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Prof. Roberto Giacomelli University of Milan |
Non-academic staff employed by other bodies |
Prof. Louis Godart University of Naples - Federico II |
Dr. Marco Bettelli Researcher Non-academic research institute |
Prof.ssa Maria Teresa Grassi University of Milan |
Dr Enrica Fiandra President Non-academic research body |
Prof. Marco Mancini University of Tuscia |
Dr. Daniele Federico Maras C project co-worker |
Prof.ssa Maria Pia Marchese University of Florence |
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Staff from foreign universities | |
Prof. Vincenzo Orioles University of Udine |
Prof. José Louis Garcia Ramon IfL Universitat zu Koln |
Prof. Umberto Pappalardo Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples |
Prof. Michael Crawford Oxford University |
Prof. Gerhard Meiser Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg |
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Prof. Paolo Poccetti University of Rome "Tor Vergata" |
Prof. Vincent Martzloff Université Paris Sorbonne |
Prof. Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi University of Padua |
Prof. Michael Weiss Cornell University NYC |
Prof. Emmanuel Dupraz University of Rouen |
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Prof. Domenico Silvestri L'Orientale, Naples |
Prof. Rex Wallace University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Prof. Brent Vine University of Los Angeles UCLA |
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Prof. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego University of Barcelona |