Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Curriculum
FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO CLASSICO
Period
1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Written text of Latin Language.
Learning outcomes
Deepening knowledge of the historical and cultural profile in the so-called Latin late antiquity (III-VII century AD). The lessons, involving critical-interpretive lines of the period and based on methodological details and lectures on appropriate literary texts, are supplemented by personal reading by students.
Course contents
Introduction to Late Latin literature.
Literature and rhetoric in Augustine's prose.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Late Latin Literature:
F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2013: open access at link
http://archivio.paviauniversitypress.it/didattica/gasti_lett-tardolatina-2013/
Latin texts:
Augustine, Confessions, book 8 (Sant'Agostino, Storie di conversione. Confessioni, libro VIII, Venezia, Marsilio Ed., 2012);
Ausonius, Mosella;
Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae, a book of student's choice.
Assessment methods
Oral text
Further information
Oral text
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