The student will acquire advanced knowledge through: 1) the philological commentary of selected passages; 2) the analysis of the same steps by following different paths - linguistic, historical-literary, anthropological -, questioning each other on the 'permanence' of gender in specific areas of our culture (students will be an active part in this part of the course which takes the form of a research laboratory); 3) commentary on the passages of great authors of Latin literature in the light of the critical-exegetical writings of eminent contemporary philologists.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).
- 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 ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).
- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci
Programme
- Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).
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 ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).
- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci
Reference Bibliography
See above. Additional materials will be indicated at the beginning of the course and/or made available on the Teams site of the course.Attendance
Attendance highly recommended.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 (both philological and exegetical) of Seneca's Phaedra; textual criticism of the drama). teacher profile teaching materials
- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).
- 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 ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).
- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci
Programme
- Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).
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 ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).
- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci
Reference Bibliography
See above. Additional materials will be indicated at the beginning of the course and/or made available on the Teams site of the course.Attendance
Attendance highly recommended.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 (both philological and exegetical) of Seneca's Phaedra; textual criticism of the drama).