LATIN
LITERATURE
1. Description and objectives:
Latin Philology
is the area of knowledge which most of the LITTERA group’s members are devoted
to. A great proportion of the educational activity is related to this field and
it is also object of scientific research from their part. Thus, on 1989, members
of this group developed a research project fundet by the DGICYT for the study of
“Hispano-Roman Literature” (P 89 0265).
1.1. Textual critic
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One of the lines of research developed by members of LITTERA is textual
critics of the works of Latin writers. Javier Velaza has worked on some
aspects of the history of the textual transmission of Tacitus, Martial, and,
more recently, Vergil. This last author has been the object of his book
Itur in antiquam silvam.
Un
estudio sobre la tradición antigua del texto de Virgilio.
Marc Mayer has written several contributions on the text of the Historia
Augusta, and Lambert Ferreres and Jordi Avilés have dealt on the textual
transmission of a number of Christian writers. |
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1.2. Historia
Augusta
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The Historia Augusta is a compilation of the biographies of the Roman
emperors from Hadrian to Numerianus. Our historic knowledge of this long
period of Roman History depends to a great extent on this work. Nonetheless,
the relevance of the Historia Augusta as a historic document is
gravely hampered by the problem of its reliability.
From
1962, specialists in Philology, Ancient History, Archaeology, Epigraphy and
Numismatics consistently meet on a series of colloquia aimed towards the
analysis and sharing of their conclusions regarding the problems of these
biographies. |
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From 1991, the
responsibility for the organisation of these colloquia is held by an
international committee including members of the Universitat de Barcelona, as
well as those of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Bonn, Geneva, Macerata, and Perugia. On
1993, Empuries hosted the first colloquium Barcinonense, and the second
one was cellebrated on the same place on 2002.
2. Works published by LITTERA:
FERRERES, L., Index verborum et locutionum quae in PsCypriani ‘De laude martyrii’ opusculo inveniuntur. Barcelona 1999.
VELAZA, J., "La cuestión de las lecciones dobles del Palatino y la tradición
antigua del texto de Virgilio", Simposi de la Secció Catalana de la SEEC,
Tortosa, 1998.
VELAZA, J., Itur in antiquam
silvam. Un estudio sobre la tradición antigua
del texto virgiliano, Frankfurt 2001.