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84641 - Greek Textual Criticism and Philology (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Giovanna Alvoni
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-FIL-LET/02
                    
                        Language:
                        German
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 9070)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students master the most important philological tools for working with Greek texts, with special focus on the history of their transmission and reception.

Course contents

Tradition of literary texts from classical antiquity (4 hours).
Textual criticism and history of Greek philology (6 hours).
Reading and text-critical analysis of ancient Greek drama fragments (12 hours). Reading and text-critical analysis of Navigium (some passages) by Lucian of Samosata (8 hours, lessons given by Prof Dr Heinz-Günther Nesselrath on 24, 25, 29 and 31 March 2021).

Beginning of the course: 22 March 2021.
Timetable and venue : Monday (3.00 pm-5.00 pm), Wednesday (11.00 am-1.00 pm) and Thursday (3.00 pm-5.00 pm), Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, via Zamboni 32, 1th floor, Aula Mansarda, stanza IV.

Readings/Bibliography

Einleitung in die griechische Philologie, hrsg. von H.-G. Nesselrath, Stuttgart-Leipzig (Teubner) 1997, 3-44, 59-71. Other readings will be recommended during the course.
Einleitung in die griechische Philologie, hrsg. von H.-G. Nesselrath, Stuttgart-Leipzig (Teubner) 1997, 45-58, 87-132. Other readings will be recommended during the course.
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. I. Didascaliae tragicae, catalogi tragicorum et tragoediarum, testimonia et fragmenta tragicorum minorum ed. B. Snell. Editio correctior et addendis aucta cur. R. Kannicht, Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 1986, 170-184.Musa tragica. Die griechische Tragödie von Thespis bis Ezechiel. Ausgewählte Zeugnisse und Fragmente griechisch und deutsch [...] hrsg. von B. Gauly, L. Käppel, R. Klimek-Winter, H. Krasser, K.-H. Stanzel, V. Uhrmeister, Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 1991, 108-124. Other readings will be recommended during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be interactive and based on continuous exchanges between lecturer and students.

Assessment methods

Assessment for this course consists of an oral examination, during which are assessed the knowledge and the critical elaboration of the themes considered during the course and of the bibliography.

Teaching tools

Photocopies and digital resources.

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Alvoni