PHILOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF LATIN TEXTS MOD. 1

The course of LATIN PHILOLOGY falls within the "Core educational activities" of the study plan of the Master's Degree Programmes in Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology and in Italian Philology and Literature. The course aims to refine the knowledge of the philological method applied to Latin texts provided in the Bachelor's Degree. Furthermore, the course aims to strengthen students' knowledge of the necessary tools needed in approaching critical editions of Latin texts, especially in the digital era.

The outcome of this course is the detailed knowledge the historical and methodological development of philology applied to Latin texts. Students should be able to
understand how new digital tools affected the study of ancient texts.
Already equipped with linguistic skills at least intermediate level, students should also acquire more knowledge of the Latin language and will be able to read and discuss a critical apparatus among its context. At the same time, the study of the bibliography should refine students' knowledge of categories, concepts and vocabulary of philological method.

This course consists of close reading and analysis of Latin literary texts, both prose and poetry: at least an intermediate knowledge of Latin is then requested. All students who want to take this exam must take before the Latin Lab 2 Language test (info: http://www.unive.it/data/insegnamento/263176 ).

This course is intended to introduce students to the critical problems connected to composition, history and transmission of the Historia Augusta. Maximini Duo Iulii Capitolini will be read, translated and commented.
Students will be exposed to a series of critical (not yet answered) questions about this collection of imperial biographies: the identity and chronology of compilers of such a historical collection, the use of ancient historical sources, the grave falsifications occurring among the text, the circulation of the collection along centuries, from late antiquity to middle ages, within different social and cultural milieux.

Bibliography/texts:
1) Material discussed during the course.
2) P. Soverini, Introduzione a Scrittori della Storia Augusta, Torino, UTET, 1983 and reprints, pp. 9-57); M. Winterbottom, Scriptores Historiae Augustae, in L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and Transmission. A Survey of the Latin Classics, Oxford, University Press, 1984, pp. 354-57.
3) P. Mastandrea, Vita dei principi e Storia Romana, tra Simmaco e Giordane, in Atti del IV Convegno ‘Il calamo della memoria’, Trieste, EUT, 2011, pp. 207-45; ‘Scriptor si peccat …’. Microvarianti testuali e macrostoria degli eventi, in Atti del V Convegno ‘Il calamo della memoria’, Trieste, EUT, 2013, pp. 127-54.
4) Assigned readings: Claudiano, Carmina minora 26, ed. O. Fuoco, Aponus, Napoli, Loffredo, 2008.
Historia Augusta chapters and all needed materials will be available on Moodle.
Students are expected to chose one of these two readings as a reference text:
- F. Stok, I classici dal papiro da internet, Roma, Carocci, 2012
- L.D. Reynolds, N.G. Wilson, M. Ferrari, Copisti e filologi, ed. it. Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2016

Oral examination. Papers will be assigned among the course, especially using digital resources; individual works will be discussed during the final exam.

Traditional lecture and online practice exercises.

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