PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
Course objectives
The course aims to provide basic elements of the discipline; it enables the student to master the subjects in order to use it and apply it in other fields of study with the correct use of the specific technical language. With the acquired knowledge the student is able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical-cultural epochs.
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CLAUDIO GIAMMONA
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
History and method of classical philology .The course deals with composition and transmission of the works of classical authors, with regard to the formation of the modern principles of philological inquiry and textual criticism.
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of classical latin is reccomended.
Books
Selected material (will be available in Clasroom);
- L.D. Reynolds, N.G. Wilson, «Scribes and Scholars. A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature», Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991 (chaps. I, III-V);
- P. Trovato, «Everything you Always wanted to know about Lachmann's method»,Padova, Libreria Universitaria Edizioni, 2014 (introduction + chaps. I-III [pp. 39-178]).
- T. Braccini, «Avventure e disavventure dei classici», Roma: Carocci 2025.
- Further materials will be available on the course's classrom: m2vl5fsp
Frequency
Attendance is non compulsory
Exam mode
The final examination will verify the knowledge of issues pertaining the trasmission of classical texts, and the acquisition of philological methods, alsto through the critical evaluation of the examples discussed during the course or in the assigned textbooks.
Lesson mode
The lessons will be held in the traditional way and mostly in the frontal form.
CLAUDIO GIAMMONA
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
History and method of classical philology .The course deals with composition and transmission of the works of classical authors, with regard to the formation of the modern principles of philological inquiry and textual criticism.
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of classical latin is reccomended.
Books
Selected material (will be available in Clasroom);
- L.D. Reynolds, N.G. Wilson, «Scribes and Scholars. A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature», Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991 (chaps. I, III-V);
- P. Trovato, «Everything you Always wanted to know about Lachmann's method»,Padova, Libreria Universitaria Edizioni, 2014 (introduction + chaps. I-III [pp. 39-178]).
- T. Braccini, «Avventure e disavventure dei classici», Roma: Carocci 2025.
- Further materials will be available on the course's classrom: m2vl5fsp
Frequency
Attendance is non compulsory
Exam mode
The final examination will verify the knowledge of issues pertaining the trasmission of classical texts, and the acquisition of philological methods, alsto through the critical evaluation of the examples discussed during the course or in the assigned textbooks.
Lesson mode
The lessons will be held in the traditional way and mostly in the frontal form.
- Lesson code1041938
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseLiterature Music Performing Arts
- CurriculumSingle curriculum
- Year1st year
- Duration12 months
- SSDL-FIL-LET/05
- CFU6