Università Roma Tre

First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 14 November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Preparing the critical edition of an apocryphal work: the Latin tradition of the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to investigate a case study, from a philological perspective: the Latin tradition of a Christian apocryphal work, the so-called Third Letter to the Corinthians. This work (also the subject of the course in Ancient Christian Literature 2022-2023, under a different study perspective), originally composed in Greek, presents a singular tradition in Latin, which attests to the existence of two distinct ancient versions. The course, a seminar format with the active participation of students, will be a true workshop in which, with the collaboration of all participants, an attempt will be made to produce a critical edition of this tradition.

Lecture materials 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.