Examination procedure
<p>Seminar presentation</p>
Examination procedure notes
<p>The seminar presentation will focus on a text or a topic, agreed upon with the lecturer, related to the course subject matter</p>
Prerequisites
The course requires a solid kwoledge of Latin language. The course can be attended by students of all years of study.
Syllabus
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.
Bibliographical references
- 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