"Aristocratic model, productive sectors and constraints of social representation"

The rich epigraphic heritage of the city of Rome, and of other cities of the Latin West, allows us to examine the paths of self-representation, in life and in death, of the different, stratified, heterogeneous components of a multiform urban society. In the universe of production workers, different in origin, age, category and social weight, illustrates by means of latin inscriptions the attraction of the aristocratic model, but also eccentric forms of exaltation of subordinate roles. A world suspended between dominant thought and eccentricity.

Students in Master's Degree courses who have not obtained any CFU in the L-ANT / 03 sector (Roman History / Latin Epigraphy), and intend to acquire 12 ECTS credits in the L-ANT / 03 sector in the Master's course alone, can support 6 CFU of Roman History in the manner indicated by prof. Marcone, and 6 CFU of Latin Epigraphy Master's Degree, for which a basic knowledge of Latin is required, according to the Latin Epigraphy program LM (with debt).
Texts:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma (Carocci) 2009 [obbligatorio];
un volume a scelta tra:
- M.L. Caldelli, F. Zevi, M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni, Epigrafia latina. Ostia: cento iscrizioni in contesto, Roma (Quasar) 2010 [328 pp. - € 28,00]: studio integrale.
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, a cura di R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milano (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 49,00]: study of Room I + 4 Choice Rooms.
Exercises:
- Visit of the "Epigraphic Collection" of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

N.B. Additional texts for non-attending students: to be agreed with the teacher.
Knowledge of the Latin language is required. It is advisable to take the exam of Latin Epigraphy after taking a Roman History exam.

Rhythm and storytelling II

(students attending):
- After an introduction to contemporary anthropology topics, the course consists of lectures, seminars and workshops focusing on the communicative musicality and narratives. The reference texts will be announced during the lectures

(students not attending):
- P.Apolito, Ritmi di festa. Corpo, danza, socialità, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014.
- V.Turner, Antropologia della performance, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1993 (capp.1,3,5)
- Sahlins Marshall, Un grosso sbaglio. L’idea occidentale di natura umana, Elèuthera, Milano, 2010

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students only: The examination will focus only on lesson notes and handouts provided by the Professor.

For students who do not attend classes: C. Cardia, La Chiesa tra storia e diritto, Giappichelli, 2010, pp. 1-252, 293-361.

Will be considered as attending only the students who have attended the 2/3 of classes and seminars.


FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, REFER TO THE FACULTY WEBSITE WHERE THERE IS THE PAGE RESERVED TO PROFESSOR’S DIDACTIS.

II semester
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti
LM - Early Christian and Medieval Iconography

Genesis and Early Development of Mosaic Decoration in Roman Building

Assignment:
M. Braconi, Il catino absidale di S.Pudenziana. La storia,il restauro,l'interpretazione, Todi 3026

Students not attending lessons must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000; introduction and a choice of 30 voices.

II semester
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti
Christian Epigraphy

Texts and Figures carved in Roman and Aquileian Epigraphy

Relations between iconography and epigraphy in the inscribed production of roman and aquileian christian cemeteries.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, M.Braconi, Incisioni figurate della Tarda Antichità, Città del Vaticano 2013.

The text will be integrated with materials supplied during lessons.

Please check http://umanistici.lms.uniroma3.it/dsu-afferenti/ggervasio

Please check http://umanistici.lms.uniroma3.it/dsu-afferenti/ggervasio

The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The army’s role.

The course is designed for students enrolled in Laurea Magistrale in Archeology science and methodology of historical and archaeological research (D.M. 270/2004), Laurea Magistrale in Religions Sciences (D.M. 270/2004), Laurea Magistrale in Philology, literature and history of Antiquity (D.M. 270/2004), which already have specific notions of Greek history, Roman history, Greek language and literature, Latin language and literature.

The course consists of 36 hours of lectures that will aim to deepen peculiar and significant issues of the Roman Provinces. The type of bibliography will allow the student to acquire the knowledge of the formation of the provinces, their administration, their relationship with the central power, the army's role. This knowledge will be enriched by the texts of classical authors, transcripts of inscriptions and images that will be provided during the lessons.

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida allostudio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.


Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.
Ulteriori riferimenti bibliografici e altro materiale didattico (in particolare testi di autori classici, trascrizioni di iscrizioni, immagini) verranno forniti nel corso delle lezioni.

STUDENTI 509/99 - Bibliografia e materiale didattico verranno concordati con il docente.

Course title (2016-2017): “Paul and Thecla: the first Christian novel”.
Adventures of the Apostle Paul and his disciple Thecla in Asia Minor are the subject of the most famous section of the Acts of Paul, section which, autonomously, enjoyed wide circulation. The two protagonists of the typical Hellenistic novel become here two tireless evangelists, and the love affair turns into a persistent desire of Paul imitation by Thecla, which undermines all social conventions and comes to shape one of the great literary heroines of antiquity.
The course aims to analyze the Acts of Paul and Thecla from historico-critical, semantic, ideological and literary perspectives, making use of the most recent scientific literature on the subject.
The course is a workshop and provides for the active participation of the students; the knowledge of the Greek language is demanded. Students who don’t know Greek or cannot attend the lessons are requested to contact the teacher.

Materials for the seminars (critical editions, scientific literature) will be furnished by the teacher.

Two bishops of the Late antiquity through their letters: Augustine of Hippo and Synesius of Cyrene

Through the analysis of some letters of Augustine and Synesius we will study the action of the two bishops which have to face the problems that trouble their community.
Special attention will be paid to the literary aspects and of textual criticism.

Texts
Augustine
Selected letters
Synesius
Selected letters


Bibliography
Agostino, Lettere, Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana (NBA) Città Nuova Editrice, vol. XXI,1-2, introd. M. Pellegrino, trad. T.Alimonti-L. Carrozzi, note L. Carrozzi, Roma 1969; vol. XXII, trad. e note L. Carrozzi, Roma 1971; vol. XXIII, trad. e note e indici L. Carrozzi, Roma 1974; vol. XXIIIA, trad. e note e indici L. Carrozzi, Roma 1992.
Le Lettere di Agostino in Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana (NBA) si trovano online al seguente link:
http://www.augustinus.it/italiano/lettere.htm
http://www.augustinus.it/latino/lettere/index.htm
M. Pellegrino, Introduzione a Agostino, Lettere, Nuova Biblioteca Agostiniana (NBA) Città Nuova Editrice, vol. XXI,1, Roma 1969
P. Brown, Agostino d’Ippona, Einaudi Editore, Torino 20133
Sinesio di Cirene, Opere, a c. di Antonio Garzya, Torino, UTET, 1989
A. Garzya, Introduzione a Sinesio di Cirene, Opere, a c. di A. G., Torino, UTET, 1989
Ulteriore bibliografia sarà indicata a lezione.
GENERAL SYLLABUS: (for student that have never teken any ancient Christian literature exam): M. Simonetti-Emanuela Prinzivalli, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna 2010.
The students which non attend lectures must agree upon the syllabus with the teacher.

NEW DISCOVERIES AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTHERN ETRURIA:
During the Course-Seminary new discoveries and researches in Southern Etruria will be presented and discussed in lectures, visits of museums, exhibitions, archaeological sites and excavations. Each student has to prepare a paper on a selected topic.

The necessary textes will be discussed at the beginning of the semester.

This course examines the socio-cultural, socio-political, and socio-economic implications of environmental challenges and related development of the battle of Chaeronea at Athens and their impact on figurative language, monuments and urban planning in the age of Alexander. This course will be divided into lectures and visits to museums and archaeological sites.

Main reference text: M. Faraguna, Atene nell’età di Alessandro: problemi politici, economici, finanziari, Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1992, available at the law Library. Additional material, provided during the course, will be available at the students
Students not attending should contact the lecturer during the consultation times or by e-mail.

Christianity and religion in modern historiography
The course aims to introduce students to the main historiographical problems related to early modern and modern Christianity, debated in the last century. It’ll start from an excursus on the history of religious historiography, which would show the evolution over time of the characteristics, the purposes and methods of work of historians, both regarding use of the sources, both on the same drafting of the historical writing, both with regard to its teaching , then it’ll move on to the reconstruction of the search paths of some important scholars who have dealt with Christian religious history.
We will try to give students the ability to read and interpret critically historical essays and deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, analyzing scientifically the sources and its historiography. held methodological lessons and practical exercises of research, of discussion of the historiography and of use of tools and aids.
In the academic year 2016-2017 the course will be about the History of Christianity in Early Modern Age.

- Storici e religione nel Novecento italiano, a cura di D. MENOZZI – M. MONTACUTELLI, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2011 (Storia, 47), pp. 5-93; 109-220; 293-327; 371-417.
- Cristianesimo e storia. Rapporti e percorsi, a cura di P. SINISCALCO, Roma, Studium, 2002 (Religione e società, 42), pp. 85-167.
Non-attending students are asked to agree on the program with the teacher. It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the modern history of Christianity to provide themselves with a manual, such as the Storia del Cristianesimo, dir. E. PRINZIVALLI, IV. L'età contemporanea (secc. XIX-XXI), a cura di GIOVANNI VIAN, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (Frecce, 195) or another in different language.

Analysis of the change in the perception of classical antiquities between the twentieth and twentieth centuries

1. G. Calcani, Storia dell'archeologia. Il passato come ricerca di attualità, IPZS 2007
2. M. Augè, Rovine e macerie. Il senso del tempo, Bollati Boringhieri (ed. a scelta)
3. S. Settis, Futuro del classico, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi (ed. a scelta)

The course will be dedicated to the reign of Claudius and its assessments in the current historical debate
During the course, there will be two lectures devoted to the comparison between the Roman Empire and the Chinese Empire
and a series of seminars on the political lexicon in the East greek

Svetonio- Vita di Claudio (qualsiasi edizione)
A. Momigliano, L'opera dell'imperatore Claudio (nuova ed. a cura di D. Faoro), Jouvence, Napoli 2016
J. Scheid- Fr. Jacques, Roma e il suo Impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Laterza, Roma-Bari 20155
F. Guidetti, L'Impero romano in 100 date, Dalla Porta, Pisa 2016

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Texts:
• Marina Marengo, Geografia e letteratura. Piccolo manuale d’uso, Bologna, Pàtron Editore, 2016.
• Two articles from the issue Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Ilaria Luzzana Caraci (a cura di), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche (The magazine is difficult to find, ask the teacher):
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, pp. 3-12;
- Claudio Cerreti, Breve ragionamento intorno ai sette paradossi principali del viaggio, pp. 52-59.

Seneca and the Power: the two faces of an intellectual between commitment and compromise. In the course an historical and literary setting of Seneca's Apokolokyntosis and Consolatio ad Polybium will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a full commentary, with particular care to the aspects of literary shape and style.

- As for the Apokolokyntosis, an edition as preferred among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).
- As for the Consolation ad Polybium: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).

TITLE OF THE COURSE: The pseudo-Augustinian treatise De spiritu et anima (late 12th-early 13th century).

DESCRIPTION: First of all, the course intends to outline, in broad terms, the developments of a theme - that of the soul - dear to the tradition of Western thought since its beginnings, and capable, in addition to incessantly nourishing high-level philosophical and religious reflection, also to have a singular impact on mentalities, on the imaginary, on life conduct, on the self-perception and representation of man in Western culture, and in particular in the Latin Middle Ages. A work will then be analyzed - the De spiritu et anima - of uncertain attribution, datable between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, which enjoyed great success in the Middle Ages, and which - due to its eclectic character, but not lacking of originality - is well suited to provide a complex and problematic status quaestionis on the subject, before the most complete elaborations of Scholasticism. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

Alcherus Claraeuallensis (dubium) [= ps. Augustinus], De spiritu et anima, PL 40, coll. 779-832.

- Anima e corpo nella cultura medievale, C. Casagrande & S. Vecchio (eds.), Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 1999 (Millennio medievale, 15).

Optional readings:

- Studi su anima e corpo. Lessico, idee, figurazioni letterarie e iconografiche nell'Antichità e nell'alto Medioevo, a cura di A. M. Luiselli Fadda e P. Vaciago, Ed. Herder, Roma 2011 (Romanobarbarica, 20).

The course is aimed at all students wishing to gain a solid understanding, in a historical-cultural perspective, of themes and forms of Latin literature ranging from the phases immediately preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the threshold of the Carolingian Renaissance, with particular reference to the culture of the so-called Roman-barbarian kingdoms. To this end, it is divided into two parts.
1) An initial cycle of lessons will offer an organic picture of authors and tendencies of Latin literary production determined by the meeting of the barbarian civilizations with Romans and Christians, between the end of the 5th century and the end of the 7th century
2) In the second part, paying attention to the aspects of form, style and metric, the course will proceed with the complete reading, interpretation and commentary of Dracontius' "Epithalamia" (Romulea 6-7).

- Gli epitalami di Draconzio, edited by A. Luceri, Roma, Herder, 2007 (avalaible on teacher's web site)

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia University Press, 2013
(only chapters: 1-4, 8-9, 11-12, 23-26, 28-29).
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

Constantinople, May 29, 1453: fall or conquest? The "clash of civilizations" that sealed the beginning of the modern era in the testimony of the sources.
There are days that can change history, dates that become a symbol, a hologram, a mantra. Think of the initials Nine Eleven, on 11 September 2002, of the fall of the Twin Towers, which gave the 21st century the seal of what is called a "clash of civilizations". Or even less chilling, but equally symbolic dates, such as those to which the birth of the modern age is usually referred: 1492, when the discovery of America projected the Europeans far from the area of irradiation of the former Roman and later Byzantine empire, that is, of what Fernand Braudel called the Greater Mediterranean, the trade routes that for centuries had fought against Genoa and Venice; or 1517, when Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the portal of the church of the castle of Wittemberg. These two events are closely linked to a third party: indeed, they could be considered epiphenomena. If we wanted to indicate the date that really marks the beginning of the modern age, because it is also the cause of the other two, because it changed course to the Mediterranean trade, because it freed papacy from an antagonist – orthodoxy - and left space to the Protestant Reformation, and for a thousand other reasons, we should mention another date: that of May 29, 1453, the day of the fall - or conquest, depending on the point of view with which we want to look at it - of the Byzantine Empire, that is, ultimately, the Roman Empire. Through the reading and exegesis of the sources of both sides in the field, namely not only the Byzantine and Western, but also the Islamic ones, and in particular the Ottoman chroniclers of the court of Mehmet II, and through the analysis of facts and phenomena that preceded and determined on the one hand the Ottoman expansion towards the Mediterranean, on the other the growing isolation of the millennial "Roman" empire of Byzantium with respect to the new European powers, the course aims to induce students to develop an independent opinion, historical, methodologically founded and critically articulated, on this epochal event, which changed the history of two civilizations and which violently and powerfully inserted Islam into our European history: an event that has also acquired a new topicality in the contemporary geopolitical framework, and that is often evoked by the media, but in an almost always inexact manner, influenced by prejudice and ideological conditioning as well as, more simply, by the superficiality with which our Western historiography - almost always deprived of the tools available today of the young Byzantine discipline - wanted to simplify and disseminate it.

Bibliography
A) Mandatory texts
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976


B) Additional texts:
- G. Ostrogorsky, Storia dell’impero bizantino, Einaudi Tascabili 2005
- A. Pertusi, Testi inediti e poco noti sulla caduta di Costantinopoli. Edizione postuma a c. di A. Carile, Pàtron, Bologna 1983
- A. Pertusi, Fine di Bisanzio e fine del mondo. Significato e ruolo storico delle profezie sulla caduta di Costantinopoli in Oriente e in Occidente. Edizione postuma a c. di E. Morini, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Roma 1988
- S. Runciman, Gli ultimi giorni di Costantinopoli (trad. it.), Piemme, Casale Monferrato, 1997
- I. Djuric, Il crepuscolo di Bisanzio (1392-1448) (trad. it.), Donzelli, Roma 1989
- F. Babinger, Maometto il Conquistatore, Einaudi, Torino 1970
- N. Gürsel, Il romanzo del Conquistatore, Pironti, Napoli 1997
C) Texts in foreign languages
- E. Pears, The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks, London 1903
- G. Schlumberger, Le siège de Constantinople en 1453, Plon, Paris 1922
- G. Walter, La ruine de Byzance (1204-1453), Albin Michel, Paris 1958
- D.M. Nicol, The End of the Byzantine Empire, Edward Arnold Publishers, London 1979
- D.M. Nicol, The Immortal Emperor. The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans, Cambridge University Press, 1992
- R. Crowley, 1453. The Holy War for Constantinople and the Crash of Islam and the West, Hyperion, New York 2005;
- C. Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650. The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2002

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, 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

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.

After an historical critical introduction, the course will go on to read the Gospel of Mark in Greek: the reading will be a good exercise for learning basic neotestamentary Greek. Students are expected to complete homework assignements , in order to fix in their mind what they have learned in the class.

Novum Testamentum graece, ed. NESTLE – ALAND, a cura di K. Aland - M. Blackl - C.M. Martini - B.M. Metzger - A. Wikgren, Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1999.27
R.Calzecchi Onesti, Leggo Marco e imparo il greco, PIEMME, Casale Monferrato (Al),1993.