2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

Filologico-letterario classico

1°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

GASTI FABIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Written text of Latin Language.

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.

Introduction to Late Latin literature.
A commentary on Dracontius' Medea (Romul. 10).

Lectures

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/


Lectures:

- Blossio Emilio Draconzio, Medea (Milano, La Vita Felice, 2016).


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.

Oral text

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