LATIN EPIGRAPHY

The course (5 credits) will contain a brief preliminary and methodological introduction to (ancient) history and its sources, particularly epigraphical sources. It will then develop research dedicated to the structures and social classes of Roman Italy, with ethno-anthropological and socio-economic examples. The general historiographical outline is as follows:

- females and males: women (suitable and unsuitable for childbirth [under the age of puberty, elderly]), men (suitable and unsuitable for war [under the age of puberty, elderly]), children;
- the un-free (urban and rural slaves, private and public slaves [imperial, municipal, etc.] and the free (born free [ingenui] and ex-slaves [the freed]);
- the poor and the rich;
- the plebs and the patricians;
- the knights, senators and emperors.