They will have to be learned the theoretical and technical basics for the critical edition of a classic stage play, with particular attention to Plautine philology and and the aeschilean one. The student will get to know the history of the philological method (especially the method of Lachmann), will have to move in the reading of a critical apparatus and will have to learn the techniques and skills needed to prepare a critical edition of a literary text.

1. In the first phase of the course, which will take place in the first half, it will trace the history of the establishment of Lachmann's method.

2.1 In the second phase of the course, which will be held in the second half, it will enter in the specific application of philological techniques, using as a working text the comedies of Plautus, but also of other ancient playwrights. The work will be structured into the following phases:

a) the history and problems of the manuscript tradition of the text of Plautus.

b) the philological work on the text of Plautus from humanism to date

c) the indirect tradition and the text fragments

d) how to make a critical edition of an ancient comedy (with examples from Asinaria, Mercator, Casina, Miles gloriosus and other plays)

e) the editorial practice and preparation of the critical apparatus

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lessons, seminars and tutorials.

Course books

Part 1 of the course (obligatory readings):

-L.D. Reynolds, N. Wilson, Copisti e filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall'antichità al Rinascimento, Padova, Antenore 1969

-A. Dain, Les manuscrits, Paris 197

Part 2 of the course.

a) Critical Editions

-Titus Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria, ed. W. Stockert, Sarsinae et Urbini MMIX

-Titus Maccius Plautus, Casina, ed. C. Questa, Sarsinae et Urbini MMI

-Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria, ed. R.M. Danese, Sarsinae et Urbini MMIV

-Titus Maccius Plautus, Vidularia et deperditarum fabularum fragmenta, ed. S. Monda, Sarsinae et Urbini MMIV

-Titus Maccius Plautus, Curculio, ed. S. Lanciotti, Sarsinae et Urbini MMVIII

-Aeschyli Tragoediae, ed. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Berlin 1914

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon I-III, ed. E. Fraenkel, Oxford 1950

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon, ed. J. D. Denniston and D. L. Page, Oxford 1957

-Aeschylii tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometeo, ed. M. L. West, Stutgardiae  19982

b) Further Readings

-C. Questa, Per un’edizione di Plauto, in Giornate Filologiche «Francesco Della Corte», D.AR.FI.CL.ET, Genova 2001, pp.61-85

-G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Milano 1974, pp. 331-393

-L. Lomiento, ‘Da Sparta ad Alessandria. La trasmissione dei testi nella Grecia antica’, in La civiltà dei Greci. Forme, luoghi, contesti, a cura di M. Vetta, Roma 2001, pp. 297 - 355.

-E. Medda, ‘Il codice Marc. Gr. Z. 468 (= 653) e la tradizione dell'Agamennone di Eschilo’, Quad. Urb. 90, 2008, pp. 41-63.

-A. Tessier, ‘Aeschylus more Triclini’, Lexis 19, 2001, pp. 51-66.

-A. Candio, ‘Aesch. Ag. 7’, Lexis 28, 2010, pp. 103-112

-E. Medda, ‘Dalla critica del testo alla grazia divina : la chiusa dell'Inno a Zeus (Aesch. Ag. 182-183), Annali dell’Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, 8a ser. 7A N° 257, 2007, pp. 7-28.

-S. E. Lawrence, ‘Artemis in the Agamemnon’, Am. Journ. Philol. 97, 1976, pp. 97-110.

The course is mainly held in Italian.