Seminar, three hours. Different steps required in preparation of critical edition of ancient text: localizing manuscripts; collation; establishing stemma; selecting right reading on basis of knowledge of context, of language of author, and of sources; emendations; formulation of apparatus criticus and apparatus fontium. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.

Classics

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College of Letters and Science

The department offers courses in Greek and Latin literature in translation, mythology, religion, law, gender and sexuality, politics, philosophy, art and archaeology, and the reception of the ancient world in modern cultures.

General Catalog

Textual Criticism: Studies in Preparation of Critical Edition of Greek and/or Latin Texts

CLASSIC 244

2 or 4 units