Programme

Title: Catullus and the Greeks.
Description: The monographic course consists of the philological reading of texts belonging to the Greek and Latin literature, proposing itself as a practical application of what has been learned in the course of Classical Philology I (exam already supported by the student).

Core Documentation

- Catullo. Le poesie, edited by Francesco Della Corte, Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla-A. Mondadori, 201012 (ISBN 9788804127130);
- photocopies provided by the teacher.

Reference Bibliography

- Il libro di Catullo veronese, Testo e commento di M. Lenchantin De Gubernatis, Torino, G. Chiantore, 1928; - C. Valerii Catulli Carmina, recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit R. A. B. Mynors, Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1958; - C. Valerius Catullus, herausgegeben und erklärt von Wilhelm Kroll, 6. durch neue Zusatze vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, B.G. Teubner, 1980; - Poetae melici Graeci: Alcmanis, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Simonidis, Corinnae, poetarum minorum reliquias, carmina popularia et convivialia quaeque adespota feruntur, edidit D. L. Page, Oxford : Clarendon press, 1962; - Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta, edidit Eva-Maria Voigt, Amsterdam, Polak & van Gennep, 1971; - Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, editio altera atque emendata, edidit M. L. West, Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1989-1992.

Type of delivery of the course

6 cfu, 36 hours Monday and Tuesday h 15-16 Thursday h 15-17 classroom 25

Type of evaluation

Oral exam