LATIN LITERATURE

Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in HUMANITIES

Moduls:

LATIN LITERATURE - MODULE 1

6 credits
LATIN LITERATURE - MODULE 2

6 credits

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Working knowledge of the basic Latin grammar.

AF code:

40202691

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam. It will be assessed the ability of the student to understand the texts in the original language (texts should be read metrically, translated and commented), and to develop a critical discourse on authors, forms and problems of literary history.

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

The critical acquisition of knowledge about the history of Latin Literature; the ability to read and understand a Latin poem.

Contents

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. In particular, we will explore the main aspects of the Latin poetry of the first century BC. The aim is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire the essential tools for the literary analysis , that also involves linguistic, stylistic and metrical properties of the text.

The exercises will focus on the syntax of the verb on the syntax of the period.
The topics will be discussed focusing on the direct contact with the language by means of examples taken from texts of Latin production

Recommended Bibliography

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.

A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron (if possible the last edition revised by C. Marangoni).
The Latin texts on which the teaching activity focuses will be specified at the beginning of the course. Additional references will also be provided at the beginning of the course, along with further material useful for attending lessons.

Teaching Methods

Classroom and interactive lectures; workshop activities on the text studied.

Contacts/More Information

Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students:German

Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language: German

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