Abstract
The ParaText project aims: (a) to carry out an in-depth investigation on the relationship between literary text and exegetical paratext in the manuscript transmission of ancient Greek poetry; (b) to develop, and make available to the community of scholars, a prototype tool of hypertextual transcription that allows to describe, understand and further explore this cultural phenomenon; and (c) to enhance the book heritage of a renowned Italian library by a public exhibition of important medieval manuscript witnesses of ancient Greek poetry and related exegesis. (a) The ParaText team brings together scholars expert in text and transmission of ancient Greek poetry and related exegesis from Antiquity to the Byzantine era, with the purpose of achieving new goals in the field in terms of both method and knowledge. The study of ancient scholarship concerning poetic works which were at the core of Greek civilisation – archaic epic and lyric, Attic theatre, Hellenistic poetry – will enable us to draw a diachronic and a synchronic map of exegetical strategies and a description of their typological and functional features. We will dedicate particular attention to the logical and structural organisation of the exegetical paratexts: linear commentary (e.g. hypomnemata, continuous commentaries); ‘hypertext’ commentary (e.g. scholia, lexica). We will also explore the relations between the two types of products, i.e. motives, dynamics and effects of transforming an arrangement as linear source into a hypertextual one and vice versa. The results will be published in articles on academic journals, in books and in a final conference with its proceedings. These publications will be destined to scholars and advanced students specialized in the field, as well as to scholars who may be interested in the issue from an interdisciplinary perspective. (b) The research also aims to design an innovative standard for textual analysis, by producing the prototype of a hypertextual tool enabling scholars to represent and explain the relationship between literary text and exegetical paratext in ancient books. This prototype will consist of a Repertoire of Hypertext Transcriptions (RHT) of case studies, each of them provided with introductory information, Italian and English translation, commentary and bibliography. It will be accompanied by a lexicon of ancient Greek exegesis and a critical bibliography on the topic. The Repertoire and all its complements will be published online as open access tools, available to scholars, advanced university students and non-specialist cultivated people interested in the knowledge and understanding of literature and book heritage. (c) Some of the most significant manuscripts being studied belong to the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milano. They will be the core of a public exhibition, both physical (housed in the rooms of that Library) and digital (hosted in the website of the project), destined to scholars, students and educated people.
Risultati raggiunti
The Research Unit of Bologna, coordinated by Camillo Neri, has both contributed to the Repertoire of Hypertext Transcriptions (RHT) (Objective 2) and designed, developed, and implemented the Bibliography of Ancient Greek Exegesis (Objective 4). The former task spanned the full duration of the project and yielded the following hypertext transcriptions: - Aeschylus, Laur. plut. 31.8, f. 69v - Aeschylus, Laur. plut. 32.9, f. 123r - Alcaeus, P.Colon. inv. 2021r (= P.Köln II 59) - Anthologia Palatina, Pal. Gr. 23, p. 220 - Aristophanes, Marc. Gr. Z. 474 (842), f. 23r - Aristophanes, Rav. 429, f. 25v - Critias, Vat. Gr. 2228, f. 482v - Sappho, P.Oxy. 2292 - Sappho, P.Oxy. 2293 The construction and maintenance of the Bibliographical Database have been conducted with the assistance of researchers from the University of Bologna, specialised in digital humanities and directed by Silvio Peroni. The task has been segmented to produce three different tools, namely the editor web to enter data, the search interface to search bibliographical items, and the user interface to view the bibliographic records. The design of the three tools, the realisation and customisation of the editor web and the implementation of the Database with over 500 bibliographic records took place all along the 24,5-month period of the project. The interim results were presented and shared through two webinars (Objective 1), held via Microsoft Teams and introduced by Camillo Neri: - Francesca Filograsso & Silvio Peroni, Un nuovo database bibliografico per la ricerca sull’esegesi antica. Progettazione e funzionalità, 04.06.2024 - Francesca Filograsso, Bibliography of ancient Greek exegesis. Procedure per l’implementazione della banca dati, 19.06.2025 The Bologna Unit shared its research results also through its participation to the final conference held at Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia (3 July 2025) with the following contributions: - Marco Ercoles, Rapporto fra testo e paratesto nella scoliastica eschilea - Leonardo Fiorentini, Alcuni scolii metrici ‘eliodorei’ e la loro mise en page nei manoscritti delle Nuvole di Aristofane - Camillo Neri, Bibliography of Ancient Greek Exegesis The participants in the Bologna Unit produced the following OA articles in the framework of the project: - S. Caciagli, “L’usage du mythe chez les poètes éoliens”, MH 81/1 (2024), 16–30; - C. Neri, “Simonide elegiaco ed epigrammatico”, RFIC 152 (2024), 445–467. Further publications by members of the Unit, produced independently of the project yet closely related to its themes, include: - M. Ercoles, “Note testuali agli scolî ai Persiani di Eschilo”, BollClass ser. III 46 (2025), 219–227. - M. Ercoles, rev. to Alexandrou M.-Carey C.-D’Alessio G. B. (eds.), Song Regained. Working with Greek Poetic Fragments, Berlin-Boston 2022, Gnomon 97 (2025), 687–697. - L. Fiorentini, “Marginalia comica II”, Eikasmós 34 (2023), 131–145. [open access] - L. Fiorentini, “Osservazioni sul kommation delle Nuvole di Aristofane (Ar., Nu., 516)”, RCCM 66/2 (2024), 397–407. - V. Garulli, “Due note epigrammatiche”, Aev(ant) 23 (2023), 217–226. - V. Garulli, “Su anonimato e autorialità nella poesia epigrafica greca: uno spunto di riflessione”, Eikasmós 36 (2025), 135–140. - V. Garulli-E. Santin, “Il lapicida-copista: il caso dell’epitafio di Alexandria”, Eikasmós 35 (2024), 271–290. [open access] - C. Neri, “Commenting Anacreon”, CR 72 (2022), 415–419. [open access] - C. Neri, “Di Saffo ‘ercolanese’ e di altri addenda (prime integrazioni e correzioni a Saffo: testimonianze e frammenti, Berlin-Boston 2021)”, Eikasmós 33 (2022), 37–51. [open access] - C. Neri, rev. to Finglass J.-Kelly A. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, Cambridge 2021, Gnomon 95 (2023), 485–492. - Neri C., Simonide elegiaco ed epigrammatico, «RFIC» 152/2 (2024), 445-467. [open access] Further publications by members of the Unit, produced independently of the project yet closely related to its themes, include: Calame C.-Caciagli S., Alcmane, Paris (Les Belles Lettres). Ercoles M., Dottrine filosofiche ellenistiche negli scolî antichi a Eschilo, in E. Cingano-E. E. Prodi (eds), «Commentaries on Greek Texts: Problems, Methods, and Trends of Ancient and Byzantine Scholarship», Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. Fiorentini l., Heliodoros (RE 16), in Trends in Classics - Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), Brill-De Gruyter. ISSN 2940-7303, online, forthc. Fiorentini l.,, Tradizione manoscritta e scolî in un canto di Strepsiade: testo ed esecuzione di Ar. Nu. 1154-1170, «DeM» (2025 o 2026). Neri C., Sappho in ancient Greek scholarship, in Ancient Greek Scholarship on Greek Lyric Poetry, ed. by Th. Hadjimichael and Z. Stamatopoulou, Cambridge University Press, forthc. Neri C., Callias, in Trends in Classics - Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), Brill-De Gruyter. ISSN 2940-7303, online, forthc. Neri C., Erinna, in Trends in Classics - Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), Brill-De Gruyter. ISSN 2940-7303, online, forthc.Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Camillo Neri
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica
Coordinatore:
Università degli Studi di PAVIA(Italy)
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 50.370,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
17/10/2023
Data di fine:
30/11/2025
