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Graeco-Roman Egypt – Writing on stones
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10 students

Graeco-Roman Egypt – Writing on stones

The multiscriptal, multilingual, multicultural, or short the multifaceted environment of ancient Egypt
Last updated 12/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to read 2.5 scripts, the Greek script, the Coptic script and a limited number of hieroglyphs.
  • You will transcribe select passages of authentic Greek, Egyptian and Latin texts (and translate them with help).
  • You will get an introduction to late antique Egypt, two important monuments (the Rosetta stone and the stele of Cornelius Gallus), and to multilingualism.
  • You will have plenty of academic literature references if you want to take a deeper dive into any of the topics discussed here.

Course content

8 sections26 lectures3h 16m total length
  • Welcome and overview2:49

    This is your welcome and overview lecture. You will meet me and get an idea what our educational journey is going to be like. This lecture comes with an overview of the course as well as the master bibliography for the course. All the references in the lectures can be found in the bibliography.

Requirements

  • Knowing a foreign language at least at a basic level might come in handy, but is not required.

Description

The course 'Graeco-Roman Egypt – Writing on stones' provides an introduction to the culturally, socially and politically multifaceted environment of late antique Egypt (ca. 3rd century BC to 4th century AD) for a non-specialist audience. No previous knowledge is required.

•You will learn how to read 2.5 scripts, the Greek script, the Coptic script and a limited number of hieroglyphs.

•You will transcribe select passages of authentic Greek, Egyptian and Latin texts (and translate them with help).

•You will explore late antique Egypt, two important monuments (the Rosetta stone and the stele of Cornelius Gallus), and the fascinating world of multilingualism (i.e. using more than one language on a daily basis).

•You will have plenty of academic literature references if you want to take a deeper dive into any of the topics discussed here.

The central aim of the course is (i) to put late antique Egypt on the map in the virtual world, (ii) to show how multilingualism can shape a society and (iii) to teach you about scripts and surroundings that are often confined to the ivory tower of academic environments. Most of all, this course is intended to be an enjoyable educational adventure, no pressure, no wrong answers, no overload with information.

Who this course is for:

  • Amateur (and non-amateur if interested) historians, linguists, archaeologists, Egyptologists and epigraphists