Seminars autumn 2013
Students can contact Jens Braarvig on 97 66 66 70, or come to his office, PAM 333, on Friday 30th of August at 14 hrs.
The philogical seminars conducted by Jens Braarvig will the autumn 2013 include the following topics:
1. Manuscript reading, translation and study of Sanskrit, Tibetan versions of the Bodhisatvapi?aka
2. Manuscript reading, translation and study of Sanskrit, Tibetan versions of the Mūlasarvs?tivādavinaya
3. Euclid’s Elementa in Greek, Latin, Arabic and Chinese
4. Seminar on Akkadian, Hammurapi, and after that the Erra epic
5. Seminar on Sumerian, Sacred Poetry with metaphor analysis
6. Plato, Greek with historical Latin translations, or Aristotle in Greek, Latin, Old German and Arabic.
Most of the readings are contributing to the Bibliotheca Polyglotta project, see https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/
A beginners course in Sumerian may also be offered if there is interest.