- Docente: Lorenzo Perrone
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World (cod. 0965)
Course contents
The Pupil and His Master: The “Thanksgiving Address to Origen” by Gregory Thaumaturgos.
Readings/Bibliography
Main reference texts: Gregor der Wundertäter, Oratio prosphonetica ac panegyrica in Origenem. Dankrede an Origenes. Im Anhang: Origenis Epistula ad Gregorium Thaumaturgum. Der Brief des Origenes an Gregor den Wundertäter, übs. von Peter Guyot, eing. von Richard Klein (Fontes Christiani, 24), Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1996; Gregorio il Taumaturgo (?), Encomio di Origene (Letture cristiane del Primo Millennio, 33), a cura di Marco Rizzi, Milano 2002. A detailed bibliography will be made available for the students at the beginning of the course.
Teaching methods
Introductory presentation of the Christian Alexandrian tradition and of Origen's school, to be followed by the reading, translation and commentary of the Thanksgiving address. The text will be available in electronic format.
Assessment methods
Oral examination: reading and commentary of the Thanksgiving address (translation from the original Greek for the students of classics); optional readings from the secondary literature; reading of a general handbook on early Christian literature.
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/lorenzo.perrone http://unibo.academia.edu/LorenzoPerrone
Office hours
See the website of Lorenzo Perrone