Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY

Course
Humanities
Study-unit Code
35339106
Curriculum
Classico
Teacher
Paola Paolucci
Teachers
  • Paola Paolucci
Hours
  • 36 ore - Paola Paolucci
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
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 course constitutes the introductory part to the II module of Latin philology and can also be used as a course in classical philology. The intention is to outline a general framework of reference on the textual criticism and its principles through the examination of particular textual case studies.
Reference texts
A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron 1982 (and following reprints), pp. 243-296 (the chapter on the textual criticism).

The critical editions of the texts that will be the study topics will be given in pdf in 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 and autonomously elaborate the philological knowledge and concepts envisaged by the teaching, it is necessary to have a good linguistic-grammatical knowledge of Greek and Latin.
Teaching methods
The main 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
The course can be borrowed from 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 constitutes the introductory part to the II module of Latin philology course and can also be used as a course in classical philology. The intention is to outline a general framework of reference on the textual criticism and its principles through the examination of particular textual case studies. Using the inductive method, the textual cases that will be examined will allow to provide the essential terminology of the discipline, to outline the foundations of textual criticism applied to Greek and Latin authors, classical and of late antiquity, to illustrate the material supports of the text, to reflect on the genesis and on the typology of copying errors, to examine the techniques of the emendatio, to explain the coat of the stemma codicum, the direct and indirect tradition, to highlight the orientations of textual criticism from antiquity to the modern age, to construct and interpret a critical apparatus, to illustrate the characters of the main series of critical editions of the classics.
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