20710601 - FILOLOGIA TARDOANTICA L.M.

The student will acquire: in-depth and detailed knowledge of the characters and problems of the Latin and Greek literary texts composed in late antiquity; ability to apply the methodology of philological research to unfamiliar sources; ability to collect and interpret the acquired data, as well as to integrate them with an autonomous use of scientific research instruments, resulting in complex evaluations; ability to express and communicate the conclusions of the study and research activity in a clear and scientifically correct way.
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Mutuazione: 20710601 FILOLOGIA TARDOANTICA L.M. in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità LM-15 D'ANNA ALBERTO

Programme

The traditions on the Passion-Death-Resurrection of Jesus are contained not only in works that have become canonical, but also, and to a much wider extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content and from that of the phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fortune of texts without a statute of authority. The course aims to deepen the literary history of the Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate, the most successful and widespread apocryphal on Passion-Death-Resurrection among Christians of all ages and languages, transmitted by more than five hundred manuscripts and subject to adaptations and rewriting of all kinds (homilies, sacred representations, novels, poems), which in the sixth century led, among other things, to the addition of the long and famous description of the Descensus ad inferos of Christ.

Core Documentation

General section: a text to choose between
P. CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012;
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014.
Lesson materials (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Type of delivery of the course

Lessons in attendance (at least 30 hours). The course is a seminar and involves the active participation of students. Educational excursions to religious buildings and/or catacombs and/or museums of considerable relevance to the study of Christian antiquity. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions governing the conduct of teaching activities and student evaluation will be adopted. In particular, the following modalities will be applied: distance teaching.

Attendance

For students who are unable to attend, there are adjustments to the program; they are therefore invited to contact the teacher.

Type of evaluation

Interview with the teacher on the program of the course.