Bloomsbury Summer School

Fascinated by ancient civilisations?

Saturdays and Sundays, 6 – 7 and 13 – 14 April

Course Director: Dr Luigi Prada (Uppsala University)

09:45 – 10:00
Participants login to Google Meet; BSS Director’s Welcome Address

10:00 – 11:15
1. What is Demotic? Egypt’s script and language in the Late and Graeco-Roman Periods

11:45 – 13:00
2. Studying Demotic: The right tools for the job

14:15 – 15:30
3. Taking the First Steps: The Demotic ‘alphabet’

16:00 – 17:15
4. More Basic Signs and the Determinatives

10:00 – 11:15
5. The Building Blocks of Demotic Grammar: Nouns (part 1)

11:45 – 13:00
6. The Building Blocks of Demotic Grammar: Nouns (part 2)

14:15 – 15:30
7. Moving Forward: The articles and the genitive

16:00 – 17:15
8. Starting to Read: The independent pronouns and the nominal sentence (part 1)

10:00 – 11:15
9. Starting to Read: The nominals sentence (part 2) and some exercises

11:45 – 13:00
10. Introducing the Verb: The sḏm=f form, past and future (part 1)

14:15 – 15:30
11. Introducing the Verb: The sḏm=f form, past and future (part 2)

16:00 – 17:15
12. Reading More and More Text: The suffix pronouns and some exercises

10:00 – 11:15
13. Learning New Words (with attention to palaeography): The dependent pronouns and some exercises

11:45 – 13:00
14. Expanding our Lexicon: Prepositions (part 1)

14:15 – 15:30
15. Expanding our Lexicon: Prepositions (part 2) and adverbs

16:00 – 17:15
16. Reading Full Sentences: Some exercises

17:15 – 18:30
Virtual Farewell Drinks Party on Google Meet (guests welcome)