Università Roma Tre

Classical tradition and textual criticism: Latin poets and Greek models.
The course concerns a philological reading of Classics (Greek lyric poets, Latin poets of Caesarian and Augustan Age), as practical application of abilities acquired in Classical Philology I.

Paul Maas, La critica del testo, Traduzione a cura di Giorgio Ziffer, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2017 (collana Opere Varie, ISBN 9788893590495);
- Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, edidit M.L. West, I. Archilochus, Hipponax, Theognidea, Editio altera aucta et emendata, Oxonii 1989 (selection);
- Sappho et Alcaeus, Fragmenta edidit E.-M. Voigt, Amsterdam 1971 (selection);
- Poetae melici Graeci, edidit D.L. Page, Oxford 1962 (selection);
- Catullo. Le poesie, a cura di F. Della Corte, Milano 2010 (selection);
- Q. Horatius Flaccus. Opera, edidit D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Berolini et Novi Eboraci 2007 (selection).
All Greek and Latin texts read, translated and commented during the lessons will also be provided in photocopies and made available on the teacher's internet page.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Paolo Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini: Storia e metodo critico, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (ISBN 9788843094455);
- reading, translation and philological commentary of: Archil. fr. 105 West, Hippon. frr. 115-117 West, Alc. frr. 6, 208 e 332 Voigt, Anacr. fr. 78 e 82 Gentili (ed. Anacreon, edidit B. Gentili, Romae 1958), Theog. 667-682 (ed. West); Hor. epod. 3, 4, 6, 10; carm. I 37 e 14; epist. I 19; Ps. Heraclit. All. hom. 5 (ed. Héraclite. Allégories d’Homère, texte établi et traduit par F. Buffière, Paris 1962); Quint. VIII, 6, 44-53 (ed. M. Fabi Quintiliani Institutiones oratorie libri duodecim, recognovit brevique adnotatione critcia instruxit M. Winterbottom, II, Oxonii 1970).