Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)
Lesson hours
72 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Having passed the written examination of Latin language. Knowledge of Latin literature from the beginnings to the 2nd century A.D. Good knowledge of A. Traina-G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario.
Learning outcomes
The course intends to organize, on the basis of specific samplings of texts, a critical laboratory aiming at individuating and interpreting, thanks to the active contribution of students attending the lectures, Latin authors' significant writing practices in their linguistic, stylistic, generic and cultural-historical features.
Course contents
a) MONOGRAPHIC COURSE
Subject of the course:
Classics read by ancient authors: Cicero, Virgil and Horace in ancient criticism
b) PERSONAL DEEPENING
1) Reading, translation and commentary of:
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
Horatius, Epistulae liber I
Seneca, De brevitate vitae
2) Four chapters by choice from vol. VI and four from vol. VII of Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica (see bibliography)
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
- M. T. Ciceronis De re publica, De legibus, Cato maior de senectute, Laelius de amicitia, testo critico di J. G. F. Powell, ed. Oxford Univ. Press
2. Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica VI: I testi: 1. La poesia (Direttore P. Parroni), Roma, Salerno editrice, 2009
Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica VII: I testi: 2. La prosa (Direttore P. Parroni), Roma, Salerno editrice, 2012
Assessment methods
Final oral examination
Further information
Final oral examination
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