2018/2019

2018/2019

DM270

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

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

Filologico-letterario classico

1°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

12

72 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

ROMANO ELISA (titolare) - 12 ECTS

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.

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.

a) MONOGRAPHIC COURSE
Subject of the course:
Ancient paths of Latin hexametric poetry: imitation, exegesis and literary criticism, teaching, and rhetorical use

b) PERSONAL DEEPENING
1) Reading, translation and commentary of:
Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria I, capp. I-II
Horatius, Epistulae liber I
Seneca, De constantia sapientis or De otio

2) Four chapters by choice from vol. VI and four from vol. VII of Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica (see bibliography)

Lectures

1. - Quintiliano, La formazione dell'oratore vol. I; introduzione di M. Winterbottom, traduzione di S. Corsi, ed. BUR, Milano
- Orazio, L'esperienza delle cose (Epistole, Libro I), a cura di A. Cucchiarelli, Marsilio, Venezia
- Seneca, La fermezza del saggio. La vita ritirata, a cura di N. Lanzarone, ed. BUR, Milano

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

Final oral examination on each part of the program.

Students are invited to attend the lectures. Everyone who for justified and documented reasons is unable to attend is invited to get in touch with the professor during office hours.