Università Roma Tre

The constitutio textus. Ecdotic workshop.

The LM module of Classical and Late Antique Philology intends to introduce the students of the master's degree course to the real ecdotic practice, placing them in direct and active confrontation with the multiplicity and complexity of the processes necessary for the constitutio textus of a critical edition, updated to the most recent techniques and methodologies of research, the preparation of the critical text and apparatuses, as well as of prolegomena, indexes and other editorial aids, always starting from the examination of manuscripts and from the reconstruction of their history, one preliminary, the other complementary to the recensio and to the constitution of the stemma codicum, as well as to the history of tradition.
Students will be introduced to the 'laboratory' of the recent edition of an important and so far critically unexplored text by the greatest Byzantine philologist, Eustathius of Thessalonica: the Exegesis in canonem iambicum, the author's latest work, destined in all probability to the higher education in Constantinople at the end of the 12th century, perhaps within the didaskaleion of the Prodromos Petra monastery, within which the history of its tradition developed and was probably confined. The Eustatian text is notable not only for the vastness and variety of the critical-methodological problems that it poses to its philologist publisher, but also for the conspicuous treasure of indirect tradition of classical and Late Antiquity texts, which bears in itself and which is still waiting to be completely excavated, screened, studied and adequately documented in the apparatus fontium et testimoniorum.

Bibliography:

A) Mandatory texts

- S. Ronchey – P. Cesaretti (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013
- S. Ronchey, Introduzione storico-filologica, in P. Cesaretti – S. Ronchey (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013
- P. Cesaretti, Introduzione storico-letteraria, in P. Cesaretti – S. Ronchey (edd.), Eustathii exegesis in canonem iambicum de Pentecoste, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2013

B) Additional texts to be taken to the exam (to be chosen)

- S. Ronchey, L’ Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica. Saggio di edizione critica (acrostico-irmo dell’ode prima), Aev 59 (1985), pp. 241-266.
- S. Ronchey, Crise et continuité à Byzance. Georges Choiroboskos, Jean Arklas: deux auteurs de l’époque iconoclaste dans le prologue de l’exegesis in canonem iambicum d’Eustathe de Théssalonique,
IntByzCongr 1986, pp. 297-298.
- S. Ronchey, Sulla datazione dell’Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica, Ath, N.S. 74 (1986), pp. 103-110.
- P. Cesaretti, Eustazio di Tessalonica e l'etimologia di physis: una fonte stoica?, SCO 36 (1986), pp. 139-145.
- S. Ronchey, Riferimenti pindarici nell’ exegesis in canonem iambicum di Eustazio di Tessalonica, QUCC, N.S. 25 (1987), pp. 53-56.
- P. Cesaretti, Eustathios' Commentary on the pentecostal Hymn ascribed to St John Damascene: a New Critical Edition, SKBSB 5 (1987), pp. 19-22.
- P. Cesaretti, Interpretazioni aristofanee nel commento di Eustazio all'inno pentecostale attribuito a Giovanni Damasceno, RFC 3 (1987), pp. 169-213.
- P. Cesaretti, Su Eustazio e Venezia, Aev 62 (1988), pp. 218-227.
- S. Ronchey, An Introduction to Eustathios’ Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum, DOP 45 (1991), pp. 149-158.
- P. Cesaretti, Allegoristi di Omero a Bisanzio. Ricerche ermeneutiche (XI-XII secolo), Milano 1991.
- S. Ronchey, Those “whose writings were exchanged”. John of Damascus, George Choeroboscus and John ‘Arklas’ according to the Prooimion of Eustathius’s Exegesis in Canonem Iambicum de Pentecoste, in Sode - Takács 2001, pp. 327-336.