CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

Course aim is to acquire and consolidate a method of analysis of Greek and Latin texts from Homer to VI^th cent. A.D. Ancient works are meant to be studied through textual criticism, which will shed light on textual transmission up until editiones principes.

Rhetoric, stylistic and philological issues of classical and late-classical Greek and Latin texts, with a special reward to textual criticism and editorial tecnique, basics of paleography and papyrology.

A) Methodological foundations and basics of classical scholarship (5 CFU)

1. History of classical philology until the Hellenistic Period.
2. Greek and Latin stylistic and rhetoric.
3. Textual tradition and textual criticism.
4. Greek and Latin paleography.
5. Course notes.
6. Two works to choose between the following:

• R. Pfeiffer, Storia della filologia classica, Napoli, Macchiaroli, 1973 = Oxford 1968 (three chapters to choose).
• H. Lausberg, Elementi di retorica, Bologna, Il Mulino 1969 (one chapter to choice); oppure B. Mortara Garavelli, Manuale di retorica, Milano, Bompiani 1988 (one chapter to choose); oppure O. Reboul, Introduzione alla retorica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996, pp. 63-84.
• P. Maas, Critica del testo, Firenze, Le Monnier 1975 = Oxford 1964, pp. 1-68.
• H. Fränkel, Testo critico e critica del testo, Verona, Mondadori 1964, pp. 5-79.
• G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Verona, Mondadori 1978 =Firenze 1952 (three chapters to choose).
• M.L.West, Critica del testo e tecnica dell’edizione, Palermo, L’epos 1991 =Stuttgart 1973 (three chapters to choose).

B) ) DETAILED STUDY (3 CFU):

Rhetoric and epideictic oratory during Attic and Atticistic Age: Isocrates and the Sublime.

1. Isocrates, Against the Sophists, ed. fr. G. Mathieu et Emile Brémond, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1928-1962 (approximately 50 pp.).
2. Longinus. On the Sublime (capp.1-10): ed. by D.A. Russell, Oxonii 1968 (approximately 100 pp.).

Students must read, translate and explain the critical apparatus; it is also requested a literary-historical commentary and the basics of prose-rhythm.

In place of the latter (On the Sublime), Modern Philology students can choose Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, ed. and comm. by A.M. Milazzo vol.II, Gallimard-Einaudi, ‘Biblioteca della Pléiade’, Paris - Torino 200l, vol. II, pp. 427-577.

C) CRITICAL STUDIES (1 CFU).

One essay to choose between:

• L.D. Reynolds - N.G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall’antichità ai tempi moderni, Padova 1977 (=Oxford 1968), pp. 215-245.
• S. Timpanaro, La genesi del metodo del Lachmann, Antenore, Padova1981 = Torino, UTET 2004 (two chapters to choice).
• A. Stussi, Fondamenti di critica testuale, Bologna, Il Mulino, Bologna 2006, pp. 61-84; 131-166.
• F. Bornmann (a cura di), Giorgio Pasquali e la filologia classica del Novecento, Olschki, Firenze 1988 (two chapters to choose).

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.