Course catalogue | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Filologia classica (L-FIL-LET/05)
Field: Fonti, tecniche e strumenti della ricerca storica e filologica
Type of training activity: Characterising

40 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Learning objectives

The course offers a technical introduction to textual criticism, enabling the students to analyse and interpret the critical apparatus of an edition and focusing the linguistic and stylistic features of Greek and Latin texts

Prerequisites

Knowledege of Greek and Latin language

Course unit content

From Nea to Palliata: Menander and terentian comedy. During the xxth century, the discovery of many papyri enabled to build up a rich menandrean corpus. Nevertheless, we can't read only a small number of verses of the Greek comedies used by Plautus and Terence for their plays. The course will focus on some Greek passages of indirect or direct tradition which can be related to Terence's comedies, so highlighting the differences of mood and style between the Greek and the Latin poet.

Full programme

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Bibliography

L.D. Reynolds, N.G. Wilson, Copisti e Filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall’antichità ai tempi moderni, Padova 1987

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and exercises plus weekly tutorials
The exam consists of an interview covering syllabus topics and presentation of an individual research project agreed upon with the course professor

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

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