00567 - Latin Literature (M-Z)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to present authors and genres of the literature of Rome in their historical development and the basic tools for interpreting Latin texts and documents.
The following knowledge and skills should be obtained at the end of the course:
1. knowledge of the literary history, which includes the ability to outline profiles of the main genres, authors (listed in the programme) and their works and set them in their historical and literary environment;
2. the ability to translate the texts in Latin listed in the programme;
3. knowledge of phonetics, morphology and basic syntax, as appearing in the mentioned texts;
4. the ablity of carrying out a literary analysis of the studied texts (both in Latin and in Italian).

Course contents

I. SPECIAL FOCUS COURSE
The Trojan war through  the genres of Roman literature

Students from Degree Cycle  in History which are attending Latin Literature (6) are supposed to attend the first 30 hours of the course only

Students from Degree Cycle in Foreign Languages and Literatures which are attending Latin Literature (9) are supposed to attend the whole course

II. CORE COURSE
Latin Language (syntax); Latin Literature (history of Latin literature), Textual Criticism, Metres (elegiac couplet).

III. AUTHORS
1. Cicero: Pro Archia.

2. Juvenal, Satire 8

3. Vergil: Aeneid, Book 3

Students from Degree Cycle  in History which are attending Latin Literature (6) are supposed to prepare Cicero's  and Juvenal's texts only.

Students from Degree Cycle in Foreign Languages and Literatures which are attending Latin Literature (9) are supposed to prepare Cicero's and Vergil's texts only.

CLASSES begin Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

SEMINARS (if not specified, hosted by the Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, 32 Zamboni Street, 3rd floor), from 7 October.

Authors

1. Lecture of Cicero, Pro Archia (D. Pellacani): Wednesday, 13-14 (students A-L), 15-16 (students M-Z), aula Pascoli (Zamboni 32, ground floor).

2. Lecture of Juvenal, Satire 8 (G. Dimatteo): Thursday, 15-16 (students A-L), 16-17 (students M-Z), aula Pascoli (Zamboni 32, ground floor)

3. Lecture of Virgil, Aeneid, Book 3 (O. Fuà): Thursday, 13-15 (students M-Z); Friday, 13-15 (students A-L), aula II (Zamboni 32, 3rd floor) 

Latin Language: the students of the course of Letteratura latina can also attend the seminars of the course of Lingua latina:

1. Beginners  – I semester:

2. Intermediate 1st level (morphology and elementary syntax) – II semester: see the updates in the program of Lingua Latina
3. Intermediate 2nd level (translation and syntax) – II semester: see the updates in the programme of Lingua Latina

Readings/Bibliography

I. SPECIAL FOCUS COURSE
Slides of the Latin  texts will be uploaded during the course; further bibliography will be signaled as well.

II. CORE COURSE

Language: I. Dionigi - E. Riganti - L. Morisi, Il latino, Bari, Laterza 2011 is recommended. As for the syntax: A. Traina, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Bologna, Cappelli, 1993. As an alternative, Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar, Ginn & Company, Boston-NY-Chicago, 1903 (both for syntax and morphology). See also A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007, chapt. I-VI.
Literature: G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina. Manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2002 [also in Engl. transl.: G.B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History, Baltimore, The John Hopkins UP, 1994].
Textual criticsm and Latin metres: A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007, chapt. VII-VIII.

III. AUTHORS
Cicero: Il poeta Archia, a c. di E. Narducci, traduzione di G. Bertonati, Milano, Rizzoli BUR, 2000.
Juvenal: Satire 8 from Giovenale, Satire, a c. di B. Santorelli, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2011
Vergilius: Eneide, Book 3, from Eneide, introduzione di A. La Penna, traduzione e note di R. Scarcia, Milano, Rizzoli BUR 2002, or Virgilio, Eneide, traduzione di M. Ramous, introduzione di G.B. Conte, commento di G. Baldon, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998.

Teaching methods

Lectures in class;
Seminars (where individual research will be discussed and essays and tests corrected)

Assessment methods

In a viva voce examination the students will be tested Latin phonetics, morphology, syntax and literature through the reading and translation of the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the programme.

Teaching tools

1. Online teaching materials: (see webpage above);
2. Seminars (cf. course content) devoted to the introduction to the bases of the Latin language (phonetics, morphology and syntax)

Office hours

See the website of Bruna Pieri