Università Roma Tre

Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.
Transmission and text of Phaedrus. Philological reading of a selection of Phaedrus’ Fabulae Aesopiae, i.e.: I prol. + 1-13; 17-22; II 5-9 + epil.; III prol. + 14; 17-18 + epil.; IV prol. + 6 + epil.; V 21; 24-25; 30; App. 3-4;9-11, 20, 29-30.

- P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line at the url of the course]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura);
- Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae, recensuit et adnotavit G. Zago, Berlin-New York (De Gruyter), 2020 [parts of this book will be made available on line at the url of the course]; as a reference text in italian: Fedro e Aviano, Favole, a cura di G. Solimano, Torino (UTET) 2005 and subsequent reprints.
- Further readings and materials relating to the text in the syllabus will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line at the url of the course.