501044 - Latin Literature 1 (BASE)

Exam schedule: 1) Reading, translation, and linguistic-grammatical commentary on chapters 1-51 of Cicero's Laelius and an anthology of passages from Virgil's Aeneid (the material, accompanied by a concise linguistic-grammatical commentary, will be available on Kiro). 2) Historical study of Latin literature from its origins to Apuleius with particular regard to the classification of the most significant authors and their works in space, time and within the framework of the literary genre to which they belong. (Reference manuals: A. Cavarzere, A. De Vivo, P. Mastandrea, Letteratura latina. Una sintesi storica, Roma, Carocci editore, 2015 or G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2012). 3) Monographic course: Elegiacc Poetry: a Reading Path (The anthology of texts, which will be required to be contextualized, translated and analyzed, will be provided during the course and, at the end of the course, will be available on the Kiro IT platform). For the hexameter, metric reading or, at least, theoretical knowledge of the metric scheme of the verse is required (in this regard, it may be useful to consult the chapter Fundamenti di metrica by A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Patron, 2007).