20702450 - LATIN PHILOLOGY L.M.

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Mutuazione: 20702450 FILOLOGIA LATINA L.M. in Filologia, letterature e storia dell'antichità LM-15 N0 DE NONNO MARIO

Programme

Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.
Transmission and text of Phaedrus. Philological reading of a selection of Phaedrus’ Fabulae Aesopiae, i.e.: I prol. + 1-13; 17-22; II 5-9 + epil.; III prol. + 14; 17-18 + epil.; IV prol. + 6 + epil.; V 21; 24-25; 30; App. 3-4;9-11, 20, 29-30.


Core Documentation

- P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line at the url of the course]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura);
- Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae, recensuit et adnotavit G. Zago, Berlin-New York (De Gruyter), 2020 [parts of this book will be made available on line at the url of the course]; as a reference text in italian: Fedro e Aviano, Favole, a cura di G. Solimano, Torino (UTET) 2005 and subsequent reprints.
- Further readings and materials relating to the text in the syllabus will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line at the url of the course.


Type of evaluation

Oral exam (queries about the outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts. Reading in latin, translation and interpretation of some phaedrian fables; textual criticism of Phaedrus).