Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY

Course

Humanities

Study-unit Code

35339106

Curriculum

Classico

Teacher

Loriano Zurli

Teachers

Loriano Zurli

Hours

72 ore - Loriano Zurli

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2017

Offered

2019/20

Learning activities

Caratterizzante

Area

Filologia, linguistica e letteratura

Academic discipline

L-FIL-LET/04

Type of study-unit

Opzionale (Optional)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

Italian

Contents

The institutional part concerns the principles of textual criticism. The monographic part focuses on the paternity of the epigrams attributed to Seneca. In the background we will examine the manuscript tradition of Latin Anthology with attention to the elements that must be borne in mind in order to reconstruct a codicum crest of the same Anthologia Latina. In particular, we will deepen the study of the so-called Vossian Anthology, examining under the critical-textual profile the epigrams attributed to Seneca.

Reference texts

Y. Gomez Gane, Dizionario della terminologia filologica, Torino 2013; L. Zurli, La tradizione ms. delle anthologiae Salmasiana e Vossiana (e il loro stemma), “ALRiv” 1, 2010, pp. 205-292; L. Zurli, Anthologia Vossiana, Roma 2001

Educational objectives

The course includes the acquisition of the following knowledge: 1. Knowledge of the method of transmission of an ancient text with particular reference to the direct tradition; 2. Knowledge of the main concepts of codicology and paleography; 3. Knowledge of the main criteria of textual criticism; 4. Knowledge of the main phases of the recensio; 5. Knowledge of particular aspects of tradition and of the constitutio textus of the epigrams attributed to Seneca and the problem of their paternity. The course aims to provide, develop and refine the following skills: 1. Knowing how to read a critical apparatus; 2. Knowing how to understand the reasons behind a given constitutio textus.

Prerequisites

In order to understand and know how to re-use / elaborate autonomously the knowledge and philological concepts provided by the teaching, it is necessary to have a good linguistic-grammatical knowledge of Latin. The analysis of the texts, which will be examined during the course, also requires proven translation skills from Latin to Italian. The possession of the aforementioned knowledge and skills is an indispensable prerequisite for the student who wants to take the course profitably and who aspires to a concrete educational success.

Teaching methods

The prevailing didactic method involves lectures in the classroom; practical exercises in metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also planned. We will make use of the collaboration of a classroom tutor and experts on the subject. In-depth seminars are also planned.

Other information

Students must present themselves in the classroom with the reference texts from the first lessons

Learning verification modality

At the beginning of the course, an entrance test will be given in written form, concerning the translation and commentary of a Latin poetic text, aimed at verifying at entry the real possession of the prerequisites mentioned above. The evaluation achieved in this entrance test will guide the teacher in choosing the most appropriate ways to organize the course and the final oral exam, but will not average with the grade obtained in the final oral exam. This final oral exam consists of three phases: 1. an open question concerning the general classification of the subject of the course; 2. Metric reading, translation and commentary of at least one of the poetic texts examined during the course; 3. Philological analysis of the critical apparatus at the bottom of the poetic text itself. The final evaluation will come from the average of the marks obtained in the three phases of the oral exam, which will therefore have a reasonably considerable duration.

Extended program