LATIN LITERATURE - MODULE 1
The critical acquisition of knowledge about the history of Latin Literature.
The course aims to provide a general introduction to Latin literature by means of a close reading of major literary genres in a diachronic perspective.
Il bosco sacro. Letteratura e antropologia di Roma antica, Ed. by M. Bettini, Firenze, La Nuova Italia (or: Cultura e letteratura a Roma, Ed. by M. Bettini, Firenze, La Nuova Italia) [to be studied until the second century A.D.].The handbook indicated includes an anthology, the reading of which is recommended in order to bind the concepts acquired to real textual examples.
Additional references will be provided at the beginning of the course, along with further material useful for attending lessons.
Students that are not able to attend classes are asked to contact the professor in order to agree an integrative learning program.