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B004092 - LATIN LITERATURE B
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Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2013-14
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/04 - LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
30
Teaching Term
30/09/2013 ⇒ 20/12/2013
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Reading and detailed discussion of Latin texts in the original, also in relationship to Greek tradition, with an eye to questions of a literary, ideological, historical and cultural nature. Philological analysis, partly carried out in seminars, of problems of exegesis and textual criticism.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Catullus,
Propertius, Cicero
Propertius, Cicero
Learning Objectives
Mastery of techniques of philological analysis of latin texts. Interpretation of latin texts in their cultural context.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of latin language, latin prosody and metrics.
Teaching Methods
Lessons, seminars.
Type of Assessment
Oral exams
Course program
"The poet and his friends: strategies of communication in Catullus"
Besides the subjects and latin texts dealt with in the lessons, exam program provides reading and translation of following latin texts:
Catullus, The Poems
Propertius, book 1
Cicero, Pro Caelio
Is moreover requested the study of:
M. Citroni, Poesia e lettori in Roma antica, Roma- Bari, Laterza 1995 (chapters on Catullus).
F. Bellandi, Lepos e Pathos. Studi su Catullo, Bologna Pàtron 2007.
G. Boissier, Cicerone e i suoi amici, Milano Rizzoli 1988 (con saggio introduttivo di E. Narducci).
Besides the subjects and latin texts dealt with in the lessons, exam program provides reading and translation of following latin texts:
Catullus, The Poems
Propertius, book 1
Cicero, Pro Caelio
Is moreover requested the study of:
M. Citroni, Poesia e lettori in Roma antica, Roma- Bari, Laterza 1995 (chapters on Catullus).
F. Bellandi, Lepos e Pathos. Studi su Catullo, Bologna Pàtron 2007.
G. Boissier, Cicerone e i suoi amici, Milano Rizzoli 1988 (con saggio introduttivo di E. Narducci).