Italian, but students must read multilingual bibliography
Course Content
Introduction to ancient scholarship, its methods and typologies, from the early Hellenism to the imperial age. Interest will focus on philology and textual exegesis in the imperial age and specifically on Galen and his deep relationship with the contemporary scholarly culture (first part, 36 hours). In the second part the students will be guided towards the reconstruction of the opinions of minor scholars, surveying their fragments with the aim of producing a scientific edition
Deve esserci la conoscenza di base di un manuale, come p. es. T. Braccini, La scienza dei testi antichi, Mondadori 2017.
Si consiglia la lettura di uno dei seguenti saggi:
R. Pfeiffer, Storia della filologia classica dale origini alla fine dell’età ellenistica, Napoli 1973.
F. Montana, La filologia ellenistica. Lineamenti di una storia culturale, Pavia University Press 2012 (= Hellenistic Philology, in Brill’s Companion to ancient Scholarship, ed. by S. Matthaios, F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, I, Brill 2015, pp. 60-183
S. Matthaios, Greek Scholarship in the Imperial Era and Late Antiquity, in Brill’s Companion to ancient Scholarship, ed. by S. Matthaios, F, Montanari, A. Rengakos, I, Brill 2015, pp. 186-296
D. Manetti, Medicine and Exegesis, ibidem, II, pp. 1126-1215.
D. Manetti-A. Roselli, Galeno commentatore di Ippocrate, ANRW II 37.2, 1994, 1529-1635
Learning Objectives
knowledge:
the course aims at widening the knowledge of that part of ancient Greek culture which reflects on the history of texts and works on analyzing, editing, explaining the more ancient authors.
competence:
the course aims at developing the skill of using critically very complex instruments like critical editions of texts, of ancient commentaries, of scholia, lexica and etymologica, in sum what ancient scholarship has preserved to us.
behaviour:
students will be stimulated to be fully active and responsible in working in class and in collaborating together with the teacher and the companions for the construction of the course
Prerequisites
It is preferable to have attended a basic course in Classical Philology.
Teaching Methods
First the teacher will sketch a history od ancient philology and grammar; afterwards she will select passages from Galen, testifying his deep philological and grammatical culture and students will be involved directly in reading and interpreting and comparing the texts, under the guidance of the teacher.
In the second part, after some conversation of the teacher, a minor medical author who has used philological tools in his study of other authors, will be assigned to each student (or to a small group), in order to produce a simple provisory edition/transcription of the fragments, but scientifically based. The teacher will guide and discuss the progress of the work of each edition.
Further information
The course is divided into two parts: the students of the Philological curriculum will attend both, the students of the Historical curriculum will attend only the second part.
Attendance is obligatory and in this kind of course much necessary.
Type of Assessment
The students who attend the whole course (12 cfu) first will have a conversation with the teacher during which they have to show a solid familiarity with the issues discussed in the first part of the course, through the analysis of the texts distributed to them (Moodle); for the second part of the course, they will present a written paper consisting in a basic edition of the fragments of some minor physician (that will assigned at the start and has to be given to the teacher before the oral exam). Evaluation will take into account both elements.
The students who attend only the second part (for 6 cfu) will present only a written paper consisting in a basic edition of the fragments of some minor physician (that will assigned at the start), without oral conversation
Course program
The reference books (see above) are part of the general preparation but they will be explained in class.
All the necessary material will be available in the Moodle platform
Reading of single articles on specific issues will be suggested in class.