Corso di laurea magistrale in Filologia,
Letterature e Storia dell'antichità

Students will be provided with the skills to analyze the Prologus of De deo Socratis in a scientifical way, properly applying historical-philological analysis, textual criticism and exegesis, and and will acquire abilities to deal, more generally, with  manuscript traditions and ecdotical problems of Latin texts.

At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate:

 - Knowledge of the tradition, of the ecdotical history and of the main philological problems of the Prologus of Apuleius’ De deo Socratis;

 - Ability to analyze and comment text and apparatus of the modern critical editions of the Prologus of Apuleius’ De deo Socratis;

 - Ability to apply the learned methodology to other Latin prose texts.

Knowledge and skills will be verified through an oral exam, with one questions about the manuscript tradition of the Prologus of Apuleius' De deo Socratis, and two questions about text and critical apparatus.  

 The preparation will be considered adequate (with marks expressed out of thirty) if the student will demonstrate the following skills:

 - Accurate and thorough exposition of the learned content demonstrating command of the methodology and lexicon of classical philology;

 - Articulated elaboration of teaching content.

Apuleius between rhetoric and philosophy: the Prologus of De deo Socratis

- manuscript tradition and stemma codicum

- ecdotical history

- reading, translation and analysis of text and apparatus of the Prologus in the main modern critical editions.

Apuleius, De philosophia libri, ed. C. Moreschini, Stuttgart 1991

Apulée, Opuscules philosophiques, ed. J. Beaujeu, Paris 1973.

Non-attending students are required to arrange a personal program with the teacher.

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