Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35339106
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Paola Paolucci
- Teachers
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- Paola Paolucci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paola Paolucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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. Among these, particular importance will be given to the so-called "Elena scene" (Verg. Aen. II 567-588), which is still today a much debated philological question.
- 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); L. Del Corso, Il libro nel mondo antico, Carocci, Roma 2022.
The critical editions of the texts that will be the study topics will be given in pdf in unistudium. - Educational objectives
- The course contributes to the formation of the professional profile of the researcher in classical and late antique philology. In regards to learning outcomes, 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 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 a classical text; 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 frontal lessons in the classroom. In-depth seminars are also planned with the involvement of renowned experts.
- Other information
- The course can be borrowed from Classical Philology.
Working students, non-attending students, disabled and/or with DSA can contact the teacher directly for integrations or compensations and dispensatory measures. - Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam which includes open questions relating to the general framework of the topic covered by the course.
The disciplinary skills, the argumentative rigor and the property of the language will be important elements of judgment. - 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.
Among the excerpts covered by the monographic course, particular importance will be given to the so-called "Elena scene" (Verg. Aen. II 567-588), which is still today a much debated philological question. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Goals no. 4,5,17 will be pursued.