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B025375 - CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY B
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Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/05 - CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
a) The textual transmission of Aeschylus' Agamemnon and the role of ancient and byzantine scholarship.
b) (also for TRADIZIONE dei TESTI STORICI GRECI e LATINI) Ancient and late antique editions of the Corpus Caesarianum (commentarii, ephemerides, bella).
b) (also for TRADIZIONE dei TESTI STORICI GRECI e LATINI) Ancient and late antique editions of the Corpus Caesarianum (commentarii, ephemerides, bella).
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Critical editions and commentaries to Aeschylus' Agamemnon:
-E. Fraenkel, I-III Oxford 1950.
-J. D. Denniston-D. Page, Oxford 1957.
-E. Medda, I-III Roma 2017.
Critical edition of the scholia:
O. L. Smith, Scholia Graeca in Aeschylum quae extant omnia, Pars I, Lipsiae 1976 (1993).
b) critical editions:
A. Klotz, C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii, voll. I-III Leipzig 1957.
O. Seel, C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii rerum gestarum, I - Bellum Gallicum, Leipzig 1961 (1977).
W. Hering, C. Iulius Caesar, I Bellum Gallicum Leipzig 1987.
Text, italian translation and commentary:
Gaio Giulio Cesare, Opera Omnia, a c. di A. Pennacini, Torino (Einaudi Gallimard) 1993.
O. Pecere, Genesi e trasmissione antica del Corpus Caesarianum, "Segno e Testo" 1, 2003, 183-227.
R. W. Westall, Caesar's Civil War. Historical Reality and Fabrication, "Mnemosyne Suppl." 410, Brill 2018.
-E. Fraenkel, I-III Oxford 1950.
-J. D. Denniston-D. Page, Oxford 1957.
-E. Medda, I-III Roma 2017.
Critical edition of the scholia:
O. L. Smith, Scholia Graeca in Aeschylum quae extant omnia, Pars I, Lipsiae 1976 (1993).
b) critical editions:
A. Klotz, C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii, voll. I-III Leipzig 1957.
O. Seel, C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii rerum gestarum, I - Bellum Gallicum, Leipzig 1961 (1977).
W. Hering, C. Iulius Caesar, I Bellum Gallicum Leipzig 1987.
Text, italian translation and commentary:
Gaio Giulio Cesare, Opera Omnia, a c. di A. Pennacini, Torino (Einaudi Gallimard) 1993.
O. Pecere, Genesi e trasmissione antica del Corpus Caesarianum, "Segno e Testo" 1, 2003, 183-227.
R. W. Westall, Caesar's Civil War. Historical Reality and Fabrication, "Mnemosyne Suppl." 410, Brill 2018.
Learning Objectives
The course aims at imparting basic skills in evaluating the textual tradition of renowned Greek and Latin texts through different stages of ancient and medieval scholarship.
Prerequisites
A fairly good knowledge of ancient Greeg a nd Latin.
Teaching Methods
Classroom lectures dealing with the translation and philological discussion of selected and controversial passages of the Greek and Latin texts mentioned above and of the related evidence from ancient scholarship.
Type of Assessment
The final oral exam aims at verifying the student's philological knowledge of the texts and topics discussed throughout the course.
Course program
1- All the contents of the course (see above): handouts will be provided by the teacher.
2- Translation and philological discussion of passages from Aeschylus' Agamemnon
and/or the Corpus Caesarianum previously examined in the classroom.
2- Translation and philological discussion of passages from Aeschylus' Agamemnon
and/or the Corpus Caesarianum previously examined in the classroom.