Unit CULTURE AND LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- 35990206
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Alessandra Di Pilla
- Teachers
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- Alessandra Di Pilla
- Alessandra Di Pilla
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alessandra Di Pilla
- 12 ore - Alessandra Di Pilla
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Civiltà antiche e medievali
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- "A journey through Latin literature: authors, texts, cultural themes"
The course aims to offer a panorama of Latin literature from its origins to Apuleius. The main authors, framed according to chronology and literary genres, will be presented also through the commented reading of selected texts (in translation). - Reference texts
- For the knowledge of the authors indicated in the detailed program, students can choose the following handbook:
- A. Cavarzere, A. De Vivo, P. Mastandrea, Letteratura latina. Una sintesi storica. Nuova edizione, Carocci (Manuali universitari).
[For a handbook in digital edition, see : Gian Biagio Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Le Monnier Università].
Students interested in a handbook in another language are asked to consult the teacher. - Educational objectives
- The objectives of the course are the following:
- that the student acquires a good knowledge of the main moments of the history of Latin literature and its articulation by literary genres;
- that the student make contact with the works of some of the main authors of Latin literature, developing a taste for reading and for comparison with the classics, gaining awareness of their permanence in the culture of later ages. - Prerequisites
- No prerequisites.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons, also with use of multimedia supports.
Integrative teaching with frontal modality, with possible use of multimedia supports.
As required by the note of the Minister of University and Research relating to phase 3 COVID-19 (September 2020-January 2021), without prejudice to any other change communicated by the competent authorities, it will be possible to resort to blended teaching, i.e. in presence and telepresence simultaneously, with synchronous and/or asynchronous mode. - Other information
- As required by the COVID-19 emergency, it will be possible to resort to blended teaching, i.e. in presence and telepresence simultaneously, with synchronous and/or asynchronous mode.
Even the oral exam, according to the aforementioned provisions, may take place in presence or in remote mode (through the Teams platform).
From the beginning of the lessons, students are required to register on the course page on the platform www.unistudium.unipg.it.
Not-attending students are required to contact the teacher.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA, please visit www.lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa. - Learning verification modality
- A single oral exam (not divisible).
As required by the COVID-19 emergency, the oral exam may take place in presence or in remotely.
Objective of the exam: to verify in the student the knowledge of the authors and the related topics covered by the program; verify the ability to place authors within the broader panorama of literary history, also with reference to the literary genre of belonging.
The exam is indivisible and takes place entirely during the session chosen by the student, starting from the first useful session after the end of the course.
The exam consists of an interview with open-ended questions. The average duration is 20 minutes.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. - Extended program
- "A journey through Latin literature: authors, texts, cultural themes"
The course aims to offer a panorama of Latin literature from its origins to Apuleius. The main authors, framed according to chronology and literary genres, will be presented also through the commented reading of selected texts (in translation).
Lessons will cover the following path, which corresponds to the topics that the student will have to prepare for the exam and which is structured on the basis of chapters 1-22 of the manual in adoption (Alberto Cavarzere, Arturo De Vivo, Paolo Mastandrea, Letteratura latina. Una sintesi storica, Carocci):
ETA’ REPUBBLICANA ed ETA’ AUGUSTEA
Dalle origini all’età di Silla ( metà III secolo - 78 a.C. )
1. La nascita della letteratura latina (240 a.C.): l’epica arcaica e la tragedia (Livio Andronìco, Nevio, Ennio).
2. Plauto e Terenzio
3. Catone
4. Lucilio
Età di Cesare (78 - 44 a.C.)
5. Lucrezio
6. Catullo
7. Cicerone
8. Cesare
9. Sallustio
Età di Augusto (44 a.C. - 14 d.C. )
10. Virgilio
11. Orazio
12. Properzio e gli elegiaci
13. Ovidio
14. Livio
ETÀ IMPERIALE
Età della dinastia giulio-claudia (14-68)
1. Poesia e prosa da Tiberio a Claudio
2. Seneca
3. Petronio
4. Lucano
5. Persio
Età della dinastia flavia (69-96)
6. Quintiliano
7. Plinio il Vecchio
8. L’epica di età flavia: Stazio, Silio Italico, Valerio Flacco
9. Marziale
Età di Traiano (98-117) e di Adriano (117-138)
10. Giovenale
11. Tacito
12. Svetonio
L’età degli Antonini
13. Apuleio
All material relating to the lessons and the texts of the Latin authors (in translation) to be read will be gradually made available by the teacher on the platform www.unistudium.unipg.it.
[For a handbook in digital edition, see: Gian Biagio Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Le Monnier Università.]