Unit LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35076206
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Paola Paolucci
- Teachers
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- Paola Paolucci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paola Paolucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Lingue e letterature classiche
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is divided into an institutional part, to which 6 hours will be dedicated, and in a monographic part, to which the remaining 30 hours will be dedicated. The first part will be aimed at providing a theoretical frame of reference concerning the historical framework of Latin literature from its origins to Late Antiquity, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and for notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary text. The second part will be dedicated to the theme "Forms and functions of the myth in the Latin versification" and will concern various famous myths of classical mythology in their variations within diversified poetic genres, with particular attention to the epigram, the elegy, the epic and the epillion. The aim is to show the variations of the semantic functions of the same myth according to the specific canons of the literary genre that carries it. We will focus in particular on the myths of Narcissus, the judgment of Paris, of Heracles and Diomedes, of Achilles and Deidamia, retracing the poetic occurrences in Virgil, Ovid, Statius, Dracontius, epigrammatic poets of late Antiquity and other authors.
- Reference texts
- For the history of Latin literature, the following manuals are recommended:G. Garbarino, Letteratura latina (in three volumes or in unique volume), ed. Paravia, various reprintsG. Picone - E. Romano - F. Gasti, Lezioni Romane (in 4 volumes), ed. Loescher, 2003F. Stok - G. Abbamonte - S. Casali, Storia della letteratura latina, ed. La Scuola, 2005G.B. Conte, Letteratura Latina, ed. Mondadori, various reprintsM. Bettini, Cultura e letteratura a Roma, profilo storico e testi, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1999G. Cipriani, Storia della letteratura latina, Foggia, Il Castello Edizioni, 2015For the monographic part:Chosen texts published on line in unistudiumL. Zurli, Anonymi versus serpentini, Roma, Herder, 2002
- Educational objectives
- The teaching is the main opportunity in the first three years to learn the entire design of the history of Latin literature and to compete with the methodologies of analysis of literary texts in Latin. It is also a basic objective of teaching to give students the basics and the tools to deal with a cross talk of literary theory; therefore the main knowledge should cover:
1. Knowledge of authors, works and periods of Latin literature
2. Knowledge of the salient features of the main genres
3. Knowledge of the foundations of the institution regarding Latin literary: literary object, the subject of literary communication (literary community, author, publishing and public), the text placement over time (transmission of the text) and in space (circulation of the text), with respect to pragmatic literature
4. Knowledge of the main elements of Latin versification
The main skills (the ability to apply the knowledge) will be:
1. Knowing how to read, translate, analyze and comment on a literary text in Latin, identifying the elements of content and highlighting the message - Prerequisites
- In order to understand and be able to redeploy or to make a development of the knowledge of the literary concepts provided from teaching, you must have a good linguistic and grammatical knowledge. The analysis of the texts , which will be examined during the course, also requires the proven capacity for translation from Latin to Italian. The possession of knowledge and skills mentioned above is a prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course with profit, and who aspires to a concrete educational success.
- Teaching methods
- The predominant teaching method consists of lectures in the classroom assisted, if necessary, by multimedia tools. It also provides metric reading practices, translation and text analysis and laboratories of digital humanities applied to Latin literature. It will have the collaboration of a classroom tutor and experts on the subject. It provides also in-depth seminars.
- Other information
- Nothing
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation will be obtained after passing an oral examination, which aims to ensure the acquisition of knowledge related to the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to late antiquity and the theory of literary genres within the Latin literary system. The oral exam will also aim to test the ability to read in metric, translate, analyze and comment on a literary Latin text, chosen from those covered by the monographic course, while verifying the actual language proficiency of adequate level. The timing of the performance of these oral evaluations shall be governed by the calendar, approved by the Department Council. The duration of each oral examination is quite considerable, since each evaluation involves the following steps: Step 1. Verification of literary knowledge through three open questions of literary history and theory of literary genres; Step 2. Verification of text analysis skills through reading in metric, oral translation, analysis and commentary of a text chosen in the context of the argument of the monographic course. The final assessment of the examination will emerge from the average of the evaluations obtained in the two aforementioned phases.
- Extended program
- The course is divided into an institutional part, to which 6 hours will be dedicated, and in a monographic part, to which the remaining 30 hours will be dedicated. The first part will be aimed at providing a theoretical frame of reference concerning the historical framework of Latin literature from its origins to Late Antiquity, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and for notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary text. The second part will be dedicated to the theme "Forms and functions of the myth in the Latin versification" and will concern various famous myths of classical mythology in their variations within diversified poetic genres, with particular attention to the epigram, the elegy, the epic and the epillion. The aim is to show the variations of the semantic functions of the same myth according to the specific canons of the literary genre that carries it. We will focus in particular on the myths of Narcissus, the judgment of Paris, of Heracles and Diomedes, of Achilles and Deidamia, retracing the poetic occurrences in Virgil, Ovid, Statius, Dracontius, epigrammatic poets of late Antiquity and other authors.