Julian the Emperor, Epistles; Gregory of Nazianzus, Against Julian the Apostate, Oratio IV; Theodorus of Mopsuestia,To Julian the Emperor. Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Macrina. The late antiquity biographical Lives of Philosophers.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the Laboratory students are supposed to to be able to read, to translate, to contestualize with short notes a text belonging to Greek Late Antiquity.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Greek language and ancient History.
Teaching Methods
Students and teacher work together, reading, translating and annotating texts.
Further information
Texts will be given by the teacher.
Type of Assessment
students are requested to be active part into the laboratory. Tre will be a written final proof: an essay of translation with notes.
Course program
Greek literature of late Antiquity in three points
1. Introduction to Greek late Antiquity: lines of a problem.
2. Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus. Two parallel lives in opposition. Selected pages from their work.
3. The "theios aner" and the "anthropos tou theou". Their use in pagan and Christian biography.