LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at acquainting the student with reconstruction and critical analysis of textes written in ancient Indo-European Languages (with highlights on Greek, Latin and Vedic).

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will be able to reconstruct roots, morphemes, suffixes and phrases in Proto-Indo-European.

PREREQUISITES

A good knowledge of Greek and Latin. The textes will be read in the original languages.

TEACHING METHODS

Textes are read and discussed in the class. Students are incouraged to partecipated, translate and comment them.

The class willb be face-to-face plus streaming transmission.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Indo-European Myth of Hell. Indo-European Eschatology.

The student will be able to read the texts which are explained at lesson and to reconstruct the PIE roots and words.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for 6 cfu

M. Durante, Sulla preistoria della tradizione poetica greca, Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1976.

E. Campanile, La ricostruzione della cultura indoeuropea, Pisa: Giardini 1990.

Bruce Lincoln, Indo-European Myth of Creation and Destruction, Harvard University Press: Harvard 1986.

Other books on request.

For students in Archaeology

Francisco Villar, Gli indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna: il Mulino 1997.

Bruce Lincoln, Myth, Cosmos and Society, Cambridge (Mss.): HUP 1986.