Wuppertal, Germany

Latin Philology

Lateinische Philologie

Bachelor's
Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: languages
Qualification: Bachelor, Zwei-Fach
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.uni-wuppertal.de
Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna, IPA: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets, and ultimately from the Phoenician alphabet.
Philology
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. A person who pursues this kind of study is known as a philologist.
Philology
Philology always leads to crime.
Eugène Ionesco, The Lesson (1951)
Philology
BALD heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
Edit and annotate the lines
That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love's despair
To flatter beauty's ignorant ear.
All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?
William Butler Yeats, The Scholars
Latin
To preserve Latin literature inevitably meant preserving classical mythology.
Geoffrey Miles (11 September 2002). Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-134-75464-9. 
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