Seminar on Ancient Mediterranean Languages

Catalog description

This course features advanced study of a particular ancient Mediterranean language or dialect, group of languages or dialects, or a specific language topic, such as philology, paleography, epigraphy, or linguistics in the Ancient Mediterranean, including Rome, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Arabia, etc. The choice of primary topic in each iteration of the course is made by the instructor. The following are some examples of topics: "Seminar in Old Egyptian Texts" (or Middle Egyptian, or Late Egyptian texts); "Akkadian Dialects"; "Mishnaic Hebrew"; "Regional Greek Epigraphic Texts"; "Bohairic Coptic"; "Old Persian Inscriptions"; "Vulgar Latin"; "Imperial Aramaic," or others. As such, this course is repeatable by students. The aim of the course is to provide students with critical exposure to aspects of ancient Mediterranean language study as well as a solid grounding in scholarly research methods for ancient language study.