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LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE I

Paolo ESPOSITO LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE I

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DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
EQF6
ARTS
2018/2019



OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2015
ANNUALE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1272LESSONS
PAOLO ESPOSITO T Curriculum
Objectives
A DEEPENED KNOWLEDGE OF THE THE LATIN LANGUAGE (PHONETICS, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX) AND ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE TEXTS, IN RELATION TO THE SPECIFICITY OF THEIR FORMAL STRUCTURE AND TO THE COMPLEXITY OF MEANING OF THEIR CONTENTS.
Prerequisites
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF LATIN PROSODY, MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX; GENERAL NOTIONS OF ROMAN HISTORY, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY AND THE CONTENTUALIZATION OF FACTS AND CHARACTERS.
Contents
THE PROGRAM IS SO ORGANIZED:
1) A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE (FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE AUGUSTAN AGE), FOR ASPECTS, THEMES AND GENERAL PROBLEMS. SUMMARY, IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, OF THE ESSENTIAL NOTES OF PHONETICS, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY, METRIC. NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF THE MAIN AUTHORS;
2) REPUBLICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: CAESAR AND SALLUSTIUS.
3) VIRGIL'S GEORGICS;
4) THE LATIN LOVE ELEGY.

LESSONS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH:
A) THE STUDY OF AN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS OF THE HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD FOR THE ARTISTIC PERSONALITY OF GREATER RELIEF (ENNIUS, NEVIUS LUCILIUS, PLAUTUS, TERENCE, CAESAR, CICERO, VARRO, SALLUSTIUS, LUCRETIUS, CATULLUS, VIRGIL, HORACE, TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS, OVID, LIVY) AND TO THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE PANELS OF DIFFERENT PERIODS.
B) A SUMMARY, BY BROAD LINES (PRINCIPLES OF PHONETICS AND MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX OF CASES, OF THE VERB, OF THE PERIOD), OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE;
C) THE STUDY OF THE BASIC FEATURES OF HEXAMETER, ELEGIAC COUPLET AND CATULLIAN METERS;
D) THE ANALYSIS OF ONE OR MORE AUTHORS THROUGH THE STUDY OF MONOGRAPHIC ESSAYS.

STUDENTS WHO CANNOT ATTEND COURSE ARE URGED TO CONTACT THE TEACHER, IN ORDER TO AGREE WITH HIM A DIFFERENT PROGRAM.
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE IS BASED ON ALTERNATING LECTURES AND LAB EXERCISES.
Verification of learning
THERE WILL BE A SYSTEMATIC CHECK OF THE LEARNING LEVEL REACHED THROUGH A CONSTANT INVOLVEMENT OF THE STUDENTS, CALLED TO TEST THE QUALITY OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE. IN PARTICULAR, THEY WILL BE INVITED TO EXPOSE PERSONAL RESOURCES OF THE CONTENT PROPOSED IN THE COURSE OF LESSONS. WRITTEN VERIFICATIONS AFTER THE FIRST HALF AND AT THE END OF THE COURSE ARE PROVIDED.
Texts
1) A LATIN GRAMMAR (WE RECOMMEND L. GRAVERINI-M FUCECCHI, LINGUA LATINA, FLORENCE, LE MONNIER 2009); A. TRAINA, G. BERNARDI PERINI (BY C. MARANGONI), PROPEDEUTICA AL LATINO UNIVERSITARIO, REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION, BOLOGNA, PATRON, 2007; A HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE (WE RECOMMEND A. CAVARZERE-A. DE VIVO-P. MASTANDREA, LETTERATURA LATINA, ROME, CAROCCI, 2015); A LATIN METRIC MANUAL (FOR EXAMPLE, L. CECCARELLI, PROSODIA E METRICA LATINA CLASSICA, ROME, DANTE ALIGHIERI 2004; S. BOLDRINI, FONDAMENTI DI PROSODIA E METRICA LATINA, ROME, CAROCCI 2004).

2) CAESAR AND SALLUSTIUS (SELECTED PASSAGES).
THE STUDENT WILL INTEGRATE THIS PART OF THE PROGRAM WITH THE TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING POEMS: CATULLUS, 70, 72, 76, 85, 86, 87.

3) VIRGIL, GEORGICS (SELECTED LINES).
THE STUDENT WILL INTEGRATE THIS PART OF THE PROGRAM WITH THE TRANSLATION OF LIVY, AB URBE CONDITA, I 1-6.

4) TIBULLUS, PROPERTIUS, OVID (SELECTED PASSAGES).

5) BARBARA K. GOLD (ED.), A COMPANION TO ROMAN LOVE ELEGY PART I: THE TEXT AND ROMAN EROTIC ELEGISTS, CHICHESTER, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2012, PP. 9-100;

6) N. HOLZBERG, VIRGILIO, BOLOGNA, IL MULINO, 2008 (CHAPTERS I AND III).
More Information
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND DIDACTIC MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE TEACHER IN THE COURSE OF LESSONS.
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