Study and Edition of Greek and Latin Texts

Recommended Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of Greek and Latin; Greek IV/ Latin IV ou equivalent level.

Teaching Methods

The topics will be proposed by the professor, by contextualizing the theoretical framework with practical commentary on examples of specific manuscripts. The students will be called upon to participate actively in thinking about the points of the syllabus and in doing individual research, the aim being the presentation of a small exercise in critical edition.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes pertain to the acquisition of basic knowledge in the area of Greek and Latin manuscripts, in order to give the necessary conceptual tools with a view to attempting the critical edition of texts and authors from Classical Antiquity. The aim is that students should acquire the expertise necessary for comparing manuscripts and for the constitution of a critical apparatus. At the end of the curricular unit, they should be able to identify scripts according to period and evaluate the contribution for a critical edition of given Greek and Latin manuscripts. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The transmission of Greek and Latin literature: papyri and manuscripts.

2. The proto-history of a classical text.

3. Introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography.

4. Study of selected manuscripts.

5. Textual criticism and editing Greek and Latin texts.

6. Putting together a critical apparatus.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Barbour, R, (1981), Greek Literary Hands AD 400-1600, Oxford.

Bischoff, B. (1997), Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Cambridge.

Bischoff, B. (1994), Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, Cambridge.

Hunter, R. & Oakley, S. (2016), Latin Literature and its Transmission, Cambridge.

Parker, D.C. (2008), An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts, Cambridge.

Reynolds, L. D. & Wilson, N. (2013), Scribes and Scholars: a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, Oxford.

Velaza, J. (ed.) (2016), From the Protohistory to the History of the Text, Frankfurt.

West, M.L. (2002), Crítica Textual e Técnica Editorial aplicável a textos gregos e latinos, trad. de A. Rebelo, Lisboa.