LUCIANO CANFORA, Lezioni di Filologia: Paul Maas e la critica del testo

Luciano Canfora, Philology Lessons: "Paul Maas and Textual Criticism" 🏛 Short audio excerpt from the lecture held on September 19, 2023, at the Stabat Mater Hall, Piazza Galvani, 1 Bologna (BO) Here is the full lecture: 👉    • Lezioni di filologia classica - Luciano Ca...   👉    • Letteratura⎮Libri 📚   👉    • Storia 🏛   👉    • Places, Music, People  🛩   ○ Paul Maas (Frankfurt am Main, November 18, 1880 – Oxford, July 15, 1964) was a German classical philologist and linguist. He is considered one of the most eminent classical philologists of the 20th century, on a par with his teacher Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, and among the most distinguished theorists of classical philology. He was also one of the first scholars to study Byzantine literature and philology. ⭕️ → To what extent do the ancient Greek and Latin texts we read in copies made at least a millennium after those works were written faithfully reflect them, and what changes have they undergone? This is a historical question, which leads to a more practical one: when attempting to edit one of those works, what procedures allow us to move toward the originals? This is the concern of classical philology, a discipline cultivated since antiquity, ever since the time of the Great Library of Alexandria in the third and second centuries BCE, and later refined primarily as a study of tradition. In this volume, Luciano Canfora aims to familiarize readers with the fundamental concepts of this discipline (variant, archetype, stemma, and above all, error), thanks also to the use of concrete examples. If there were no errors in the manuscripts that have survived, philologists would be out of work. Fortunately, they exist, and so scholars have been struggling for centuries to reconstruct the "originals," drawing inspiration precisely from the defective copies we have in our hands. This book attempts to recount the successes and failures, disappointments and delights, of this relentless work. https://www.mondadoristore.it/Lezioni... ○ Luciano Canfora's work as a historian has ranged from antiquity to the contemporary world, from literature to politics. He has studied democracy and freedom, theater and libraries, Thucydides, Augustus, and Caesar, as well as Marx and Gramsci. He writes regularly for the "Corriere della Sera," is professor emeritus at the University of Bari, and directs the "Quaderni di storia" (History Notebooks) series. His books have been widely read in Italy and translated into many languages. Among those published by Laterza: History of Greek Literature; Julius Caesar. The Democratic Dictator; First Lesson in Greek History; Democracy. History of an Ideology; The Eye of Zeus; The Artemidorus Papyrus; The Nature of Power; The World of Athens; Interview on Power (edited by A. Carioti); The Crisis of Utopia. Aristophanes versus Plato; Augustus, Son of God; Thucydides. Lies, Guilt, Exile; Cleophon Must Die; Don Abbondio's Broom. The Violent Movement of History; The Subversive. Concetto Marchesi and Italian Communism; Stopping Hatred; The Metamorphosis; The Treasure of the Jews. Rome and Jerusalem; The Democracy of the Lords; Catiline. A Failed Revolution; Limited Sovereignty. #lucianocanfora #canfora #history