LATE LATIN LITERATURE
Stampa
Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Curriculum
Orientalistico
Year of study
Period
1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
GASTI FABIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
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.
A commentary on Lactantius' De ave phoenice.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Lectures are conducted with high attention both on the historical, literary and cultural aspects of the illustrated products, and on the more specifically linguistic theory: the two sides of literary interpretation are complementary and allow for extensive knowledge of the whole cultural period and not just of the commented text. These aim to deepening and improving linguistic competence, also with special attention to acquire appropriate methodology of theaching
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);
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae, book 25.
- Claudianus, De raptu Proserpinae, book 1.
Assessment methods
Oral text. First: Reading and linguistic interpretation of a few passages from the assigned texts. Second: Showing of the historical knowledge of the late latin literature from the manual. Third: Methodology of historical-linguistic interpretation of the text commented during the lectures.
Further information
Oral text. First: Reading and linguistic interpretation of a few passages from the assigned texts. Second: Showing of the historical knowledge of the late latin literature from the manual. Third: Methodology of historical-linguistic interpretation of the text commented during the lectures.
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