Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY

Course
Italian, classical studies and european history
Study-unit Code
GP005341
Curriculum
Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
Teacher
Loriano Zurli
Teachers
  • Loriano Zurli
Hours
  • 36 ore - Loriano Zurli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
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 manuscript tradition of Latin Anthology and its complex stemma codicum. In particular, the so-called Vossian Anthology will be studied in depth, examining the epigrams attributed to Seneca and Petronius and their multiple themes from a critical-textual profile.
Reference texts
L. Zurli, Anthologia Vossiana, Roma, Herder, 2001 (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 reference to direct and indirect 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 epigrams attributed to Seneca and Petronius. The course aims to provide the following skills: 1. Knowing how to read a critical apparatus; 2. Knowing how to understand the reasons behind a specific constitutio textus
Prerequisites
In order to understand the philological concepts envisaged by the teaching, it is necessary to have an adequate linguistic-grammatical knowledge of Latin. The analysis of the texts, which will be examined during the course, also requires 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 concrete educational success. In particular, the student must possess the following knowledge: 1. Knowledge of authors, works and eras of Latin literature, with particular regard to the age of the First Empire; 2. Knowledge of the salient features of the main literary genres; 3. Knowledge of the main elements of Latin versification; 4. Knowledge of the lexicon, etymology, morphology and fundamental syntax of the Latin language; 5. Knowledge of the root system and suffixes of the Latin lexicon; 6. Knowledge of the fundamentals of the historical grammar of the Latin language; 7. Knowledge of the main elements of the Latin language of poetry. He must also possess the following skills: 1. Knowing how to read, translate, analyze and comment on a literary text in Latin, identifying the salient elements of content and decoding its message; 2. Knowing how to identify the linguistic and stylistic-rhetorical dimension of a Latin literary text; 3. Knowing how to trace a literary text to the genre to which it belongs; 4. Knowing how to analyze the forms of Latin versification
Teaching methods
The prevailing teaching method foresees lectures in the classroom; practical exercises in metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also provided. 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 arrive in the classroom with the reference text from the first lessons.
Learning verification modality
At the beginning of the course an entrance test in written form will be given, concerning the translation and commentary of a Latin poetic text, aimed at verifying the actual possession of the above-mentioned prerequisites upon entry. The evaluation obtained 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 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 manuscript tradition of Latin Anthology and its complex stemma codicum. In particular, the so-called Vossian Anthology will be studied in depth, examining the epigrams attributed to Seneca and Petronius and their multiple themes from a critical-textual profile. In this way, students will have the opportunity to get to know an editorial project on which the chair of Latin Philology of the University of Perugia has been working for more than twenty-five years: that is the revisenda Anthologia Latina by Riese of 1894-1906, only partially remade by Shackleton Bailey in 1982.
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