Università Roma Tre

First semester (six weeks).
Hours: 6 hours/week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Wednesday 10 November 2021.

Course title 2021-2022: Overabundant multilingual traditions: the case of the Acts of Peter and Paul.
Also available online, in synchronous and recorded mode.

The traditions on the final part of the lives of the individual apostles are not contained in works that have become canonical, but in an apocryphal literary production that is interesting both from the point of view of content and from that of the phenomena of the history of tradition. The course aims to deepen the literary history of the so-called Acts of Peter and Paul, the oldest form of the legend that presents the two apostles associated in the preaching in Rome, in the fight against Simon Magus and in martyrdom. A work of great success, it is transmitted to us in almost all the ancient languages, has about 200 Latin witnesses, about 50 Greek ones and poses literary and philological questions that are still open.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of the texts, taken from: R.A. LIPSIUS, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha. I: Acta Petri, Acta Pauli, Acta Petri et Pauli, Acta Pauli et Theclæ, Acta Thaddei, Lipsiæ 1891, 118-222) will be provided by the teacher.

General part:
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014;
or, for students who have never taken an exam in Classical Philology: P .CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012.