Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- A002072
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Paola Paolucci
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
LATIN PHILOLOGY MODULE I
| Code | A002086 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Paola Paolucci |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Filologia, linguistica e letteratura |
| Academic discipline | L-FIL-LET/04 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The course is an introduction to Latin philology which will find its practical and textual applications in the second module. We intend to outline, first of all, a history of philology in Rome through the critical examination of history outlined by Robert A. Kaster in 2003. We will also evaluate the placement of philological studies in the framework of education in Rome and in the humanistic tradition. and nineteenth century. We will then move on to an illustration of the history of texts in Latin and their handwritten witnesses and to a careful examination of the principles of textual criticism and ecdotics, through a critical examination of the most important bibliography on the subject and highlighting the concepts of 'center and periphery ', copy errors and their types, genesis of errors, emendatio, usus scribendi, reviews, examinatio, eliminatio codicum descriptorum, intentional modifications of the text, glosses and interpolations. |
| Reference texts | F. Graf, Introduzione alla filologia latina, Roma 2003 [selected pages provided in pdf on unistudium] |
| 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 direct tradition; 2. Knowledge of the main notions of ecdotics; 3. Knowledge of the main criteria of textual criticism. The course aims to provide, develop and refine the following skills: 1. Knowing how to read critically; 2. Knowing how to understand the reasons underlying a specific constitutio textus. |
| Prerequisites | In order to understand and be able to reuse / autonomously elaborate the knowledge and philological concepts envisaged by the teaching, it is necessary to have a good linguistic-grammatical knowledge of Latin. |
| Teaching methods | The prevailing teaching method foresees - if possible - frontal lessons in the classroom. In-depth seminars are also planned, without prejudice to any other changes communicated by the competent authorities. If necessary, blended teaching will be used (in presence and in telepresence at the same time) with synchronous and / or asynchronous modality. |
| Other information | Latin Philology I is shared by classical philology |
| Learning verification modality | Final oral exam which includes open questions relating to the general framework of the topic covered by the course. |
| Extended program | The course is an introduction to Latin philology which will find its practical and textual applications in the second module. We intend to outline, first of all, a history of philology in Rome through the critical examination of history outlined by Robert A. Kaster in 2003. We will also evaluate the placement of philological studies in the framework of education in Rome and in the humanistic tradition. and nineteenth century. We will then move on to an illustration of the history of texts in Latin and their handwritten witnesses and to a careful examination of the principles of textual criticism and ecdotics, through a critical examination of the most important bibliography on the subject and highlighting the concepts of 'center and periphery ', copy errors and their types, genesis of errors, emendatio, usus scribendi, reviews, examinatio, eliminatio codicum descriptorum, intentional modifications of the text, glosses and interpolations. |
LATIN PHILOLOGY MODULE II
| Code | A002087 |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Teacher | Loriano Zurli |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Filologia, linguistica e letteratura |
| Academic discipline | L-FIL-LET/04 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | By examining the critical apparatus of the poems of Anthologia Vossiana attributed to Seneca and Petronius in the critical edition of L. Zurli (Rome, Herder, 2001), general notions of philology and textual criticism will be deduced. |
| Reference texts | L. Zurli, Anthologia Vossiana, Roma, Herder, 2001 |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge of the main elements of textual criticism; competence in reading and interpreting a critical apparatus. |
| Prerequisites | Knowledge of Latin language and literature; ability to translate from Latin into Italian; knowledge of Latin metrics |
| Teaching methods | Frontal lessons; active learning activities through individual in-depth studies. The methods will follow the current pandemic legislation. |
| Other information | Nothing |
| Learning verification modality | Oral exam to be taken at the same time as the oral exam relating to the first module. |
| Extended program | By examining the critical apparatus of the poems of Anthologia Vossiana attributed to Seneca and Petronius in the critical edition of L. Zurli (Rome, Herder, 2001), general notions of philology and textual criticism will be deduced. In particular, the following topics will be considered: the critical edition, the relationship of textual criticism with the other sciences of antiquity, the specificities of the philological method, the transmission and tradition of the text, elements of the history of tradition and textual criticism, the collation, the review, the constitutio textus, the emendatio, the stemmatic method. |