ID:
509230
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA LATINA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to organize, on specific samples of literary texts and starting from problematic frameworks defined both in ancient exegesis and in modern critical literature, a critical laboratory aimed at identifying and interpreting, thanks also to the active contributions of attending students, significant writing practices of Latin authors, in their linguistic, stylistic, eidographic and historical-cultural coordinates. At the end of the course, students should be able to read and interpret a Latin literary text in all its aspects: metrical (in the case of poetic texts), linguistic-stylistic, content. They will have to be able to frame it in the Latin literary tradition, in the genre to which it belongs and in the historical-cultural context in which it was composed. They will have to be able to read, in parallel with the literary texts, the related ancient commentaries (where preserved) and the main commentaries and other modern critical contributions, up to the most recent, focusing on the problematic knots and establishing, where possible, a link between ancient and modern exegesis (or, on the contrary, highlighting elements of discontinuity).
Course Prerequisites
A prerequisite for module -A is to pass the written test of translation from Latin. All students whose study plan includes more than 12 credits in the sector LATI-01/A Latin language and literature are required to take a written test of translation from Latin with dictionary; The written test can be taken from the first year of the course and has no deadline. The written test takes place in January, April/May, June, September; Further information is on the teacher's personal page. The following are assumed: a sure morphosyntactic competence of the Latin language; knowledge of the history of Latin literature from its origins to the second century A.D. inclusive (reference manual: G.B. Conte, Latin Literature, Le Monnier, first edition, Florence 2012, without anthology of texts); the knowledge of A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario; knowledge of the fundamentals of Latin metrics and the metrical reading of falecio, hexameter and elegiac couplet hendecasyllables (see S. Boldrini, Fondamenti di prosodia e metrica latina, Roma Carocci 2004 and the pdfs TRAINA 7 and TANTUCCI CENNI uploaded on KIRO); knowledge of the principles of text criticism and competence in reading a critical apparatus; it is highly recommended to read A. Cucchiarelli, F. Ursini, Studiare latino all'università , Rome, Carocci 2024.
Teaching Methods
Lectures on the monographic part of the program, with indications for the study of the parts reserved for individual study.
Assessment Methods
the exam is oral and can be taken entirely or in two parts: it is possible to present part 1 (Individual study = 1a + 1b) in a session and part 2 (Classroom lessons) in any subsequent session; the grade obtained in the first part does not expire; the first part of the exam must always be taken before the second.
Texts
See Program and contents
Contents
Part 1) Individual study: reading, translation, analysis (linguistic, rhetorical, stylistic) and historical-literary commentary of the following texts will be required. 1a = Orazio, L'esperienza delle cose (Epistole, Libro I), edited by A. Cucchiarelli, Marsilio, Venice. 1b = 14 excerpts from Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica vol. VII, I testi, 2 La prosa, Direttore P. Parroni, Roma, Salerno editrice. Zip code. I Historiography (three texts): Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 37-39; Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.44- 50.3; 51; Tacitus, Agricola 29-32 chap. II Oratory and rhetoric (three texts): Cicero, Pro Caelio 33-35; Cicero, De oratore 3, 132-136; Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 1,10-11 or Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus 20 chap. III Philosophy (two texts): Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 2, 3-9; Seneca, De providentia 4 chap. IV The romance (two texts): Petronius, Satyricon 26,7-29 or 34-37 or 39-42; Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4, 28-30 or 32-35 or 5, 1-4 chap. V The epistolaries (three texts): Cicero, Ad familiares 5, 12; Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium 1; Pliny the Younger, Epistles 6.16 or 10.96 chap. VI Technical-scientific and erudite literature (a text to be chosen from): Varro, De lingua latina 5,80-86; Vitruvius, De architectura 1, 4; Seneca, Naturales quaestiones 6, 31-32; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 2, 14-20 For each chapter, knowledge of the general introductory note and the introductory notes to the authors presented therein is also required. An excerpt from The Literary Space of Ancient Rome vol. VII, I texts, 2 The prose containing the texts to be analyzed and the pages to be studied will be uploaded to Kiro and used during the exam. Part 2) Classroom lessons: Ovid, Martial, Pliny the Younger: three different approaches to imperial power (anthology of texts presented in the classroom and uploaded on the Kiro platform).
Course Language
Italian
More information
The final grade will consist of the reasoned average of the results achieved in the two modules A and B.
Degrees
Degrees
CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
Master’s Degree
2 years
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