Learning outcomes
Aims and objectives. – The course aims, first of all, at making students familiar with the method of textual criticism in its general features, i.e. as a means of reading a written text and of assessing the textual conditions of written records. More specific aims are: to teach notions concerning the transmission of Greek and Latin texts and the techniques for the establishment of a critical text; to develop students’ command of the language of textual criticism; to help students achieve the ability to use a critical edition and to read a critical apparatus.
Course contents
The historical grounds of classical scholarship.
A historical outline of Hellenistic scholarship will be traced, particularly focusing on the main personalities, as well as taking into special account philological trends, concepts, methods, technics and tools, in order to allow a comparison with modern textual criticism.
Program:
1) Matter and texts proposed during the lectures.
Reference text: F. Montana, La filologia ellenistica. Lineamenti di una storia culturale, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2012.
2) History of post-Hellenistic classical scholarship.
Reference text: F. Stok, I classici dal papiro a Internet, Roma, Carocci, 2012, ch. 1-4 (pp. 11-181).
To obtain any further information please contact the teacher (fausto.montana@unipv.it).
Reccomended or required readings
1) Reference texts:
F. Montana, La filologia ellenistica. Lineamenti di una storia culturale, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2012.
F. Stok, I classici dal papiro a Internet, Roma, Carocci, 2012, ch. 1-4 (pp. 11-181).
2) Further readings (optional):
history of classical scholarship: J.E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, I-III, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1908 (I vol.: 3rd ed. 1920); L.D. Reynolds-N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars. A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991 (3rd ed.; 1st ed. 1968; ital. ed.: Copisti e filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall'antichità ai tempi moderni, Padova, Antenore, 3rd ed. 1987);
scholarship in Hellenistic age: R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968 (ital. ed.: Storia della filologia classica dalle origini alla fine dell'età ellenistica, Napoli, Macchiaroli, 1973); P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1972;
scholarship in Byzantine age: N.G. Wilson, Scholars of Byzantium, London, Duckworth, 19962 (1st ed. 1983; ital. ed.: Filologi bizantini, Napoli, Morano, 1989);
scholarship from Greek Classical age to Byzantine age: S. Matthaios-F. Montanari-A. Rengakos (eds.), A Companion to Classical Scholarship, part I: History, Leiden-Boston, Brill (forthcoming).
topics and personalities in modern and contemporary classical scholarship: L. Lehnus, Appunti di storia degli studi classici. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Milano, CUEM, 2007.
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