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

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 9070)

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

  1. Tradition of literary texts from classical antiquity (4 hours).
  2. Textual criticism and history of Greek philology (6 hours).
  3. Reading and text-critical analysis of ancient Greek drama fragments (14 hours). Reading and text-critical analysis of Convivium (some passages) by Lucian of Samosata (6 hours, lessons given by Prof Dr Heinz-Günther Nesselrath on 7, 8, 10 April 2025).

Beginning of the course: 31 March 2025.
Timetable and venue: Monday (3.00 pm-5.00 pm), Tuesday (3.00 pm-5.00 pm) and Thursday (3.00 pm-5.00 pm), Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, Aula Andrea Battistini and Aula Traina.

Students who do not have the opportunity to attend the course are asked to arrange additional examination-related reading with the professor.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Readings/Bibliography

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. Students will be encouraged to exchange their point of view with their professor and colleagues.


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.

 

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Photocopies and digital resources.

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Alvoni