The Anthologia latina: history and features of a poetic collection (Ordinario)

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
80
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

Seminar presentation

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The seminar presentation will focus on a text or a topic, agreed upon with the lecturer, related to the course subject matter

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Prerequisiti

The course requires a solid kwoledge of Latin language. The course can be attended by students of all years of study.

Programma

The course will focus on the poetic collection known as Anthologia latina, illustrating its characteristics, content, origins and formation, and editorial history, and addressing the main issues related to its history and transmission. We will therefore seek to define the historical and cultural circumstances that led to the compilation of this collection in late antiquity, and in particular we will examine the manuscript tradition of the work, with special reference to its most important witness, the so-called Codex Salmasianus.

We will then proceed to a detailed reading of some selected poems from the Anthologia Latina, varied in genre and typology, focusing on the main exegetical and philological issues raised by them.


Obiettivi formativi

The educational goals of the course are: development of critical awareness about methods and instruments of Latin philology and their practical use; development of the critical capacity to present and discuss research contributions in the field of Latin philology; development of the capacity to present in an effective way the state of the art of a critical problem inherent to Latin philology, and to expose the results of one's research with precision and clarity, both in written and oral form.

Riferimenti bibliografici

  • A. Riese (ed.), Anthologia latina sive poesis latinae supplementum, 2 voll., Lipsiae 1894
  • D. R. Shackleton Bailey (ed.), Anthologia latina, I, Carmina in codicibus scripta, Stutgardiae 1982
  • A. J. Baumgartner, Untersuchungen zur Anthologie des Codex Salmasianus, Baden 1981
  • L. Zurli, La tradizione ms. di Anthologia latina, Perugia 2014 (engl. transl.: The manuscript tradition of Anthologia latina, Hildesheim 2017)
  • L. Zurli (a cura di), Il codice Salmasiano (Par. lat. 10318): i suoi testi, le sue immagini. Atti del seminario internazionale (Perugia, 15 marzo 2018), Perugia 2018

Further bibliographical references will be supplied during the coruse

Moduli

Modulo Ore CFU Docenti
Modulo 1: L'Anthologia Latina: origini, storia della trasmissione e tradizione manoscritta (per ordinari) 20 3 Emanuele Berti
Modulo 2: L'Anthologia Latina: lettura di carmi scelti (parte 1) (per ordinari e PhD) 20 3 Emanuele Berti
Supplementary Teaching 20 0 Valeria Annunziata, Luca Flocco, Antonio Papapicco, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari Di San Girolamo
Supplementary Teaching 20 0 Chiara Caporale, Francesco Grotto, Luca Onorato, Francesco Senarega