Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005341
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Loriano Zurli
- Teachers
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- Loriano Zurli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Loriano Zurli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
- 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 course focuses on the long poems of the Vossian Anthology, which assembles the epigrams attributed to Seneca as a philosopher and epigrams attributed to Petronius, which are part of a distinct anthology compared to the poems inserted in the Satyricon. In the background, the manuscript tradition of Latin Anthology will be examined, with attention to the elements that must be kept in mind in order to reconstruct a codicum emblem of the same Latin Anthology, as well as the codex Vossianus Latinus Q. 86 which gives its name to the poetic collection of the First Empire signed with the acronym AV. In particular, the study of the so-called Vossian Anthology will be studied in depth, examining the epigrams that exceed the epigrammatic measure under the critical-textual profile. The discourse will also involve the epigrammatic series that tradition hands down in a unitary way. As regards the first Vossian section, the serial epigrams De Corsica will be studied, on the theme of exile, the epigrammatic series on the death of Cato Uticense, the series on Pompey's epitaph, the series on the moral theme of humble life and numerous others vulgar topics within the circle of the Annei and in the ideology of the Julio-Claudian age.
- Reference texts
- L. Zurli, La tradizione ms. delle anthologiae Salmasiana e Vossiana (e il loro stemma), “ALRiv” 1, 2010, pp. 205-292 [text provided in pdf on unistudium]; L. Zurli, Anthologia Vossiana, Roma 2001 [text 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 codicology and paleography; 3. Knowledge of the main criteria of textual criticism; 4. Knowledge of the main phases of the review; 5. Knowledge of particular aspects of the tradition and of the constitutio textus of the long poems of Anthologia Vossiana. 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 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. The analysis of the texts, which will be examined during the course, also requires proven translation skills from Latin into Italian. Possession of the aforementioned knowledge and skills is an indispensable prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course successfully and who aspires to a concrete educational success.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing teaching method foresees - if possible - frontal lessons in the classroom; practical exercises in metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also provided. We will make use of the collaboration of experts on the subject. 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
- nothing
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam which includes three phases: 1. an open question relating to the general framework of the topic covered by the course; 2. Metric reading, translation and commentary of at least one of the poems 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
- The course focuses on the long poems of the Vossian Anthology, which assembles the epigrams attributed to Seneca as a philosopher and epigrams attributed to Petronius, which are part of a distinct anthology compared to the poems inserted in the Satyricon. In the background, the manuscript tradition of Latin Anthology will be examined, with attention to the elements that must be kept in mind in order to reconstruct a codicum emblem of the same Latin Anthology, as well as the codex Vossianus Latinus Q. 86 which gives its name to the poetic collection of the First Empire signed with the acronym AV. In particular, the study of the so-called Vossian Anthology will be studied in depth, examining the epigrams that exceed the epigrammatic measure under the critical-textual profile. The discourse will also involve the epigrammatic series that tradition hands down in a unitary way. As regards the first Vossian section, the serial epigrams De Corsica will be studied, on the theme of exile, the epigrammatic series on the death of Cato Uticense, the series on Pompey's epitaph, the series on the moral theme of humble life and numerous others vulgar topics within the circle of the Annei and in the ideology of the Julio-Claudian age.