Unit LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35076206
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Paola Paolucci
- Teachers
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- Paola Paolucci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paola Paolucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- 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 and a monographic part. The first part will be aimed at providing a theoretical frame of reference concerning the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the Late Ancient Age, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary texts. The second part will be devoted to the poetic production of Catullus which will be investigated both in the round and with attention to the various genres of Latin versification involved in it.
- Reference texts
- For the history of Latin literature, the following manuals are recommended (but other manuals to be agreed with the teacher are also accepted): G. Garbarino, Letteratura latina (in three volumes or in one volume), ed. Paravia, various reprints; G. Picone - E. Romano - F. Gasti, Lezioni Romane (in 4 volumes), ed. Loescher, 2003; F. Stok - G. Abbamonte - S. Casali, Storia della letteratura latina, ed. La Scuola, 2005; G.B. Conte, Letteratura Latina, ed. Mondadori and Le Monnier, various reprints; M. Bettini, Cultura e letteratura a Roma, profilo storico e testi, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1999; G. Cipriani, Storia della letteratura latina, Foggia, Il Castello Edizioni, 2015, M. von Albrecht, Storia della letteratura latina, it. transl. by A. Setaioli, Einaudi 1995. For the monographic part abstracts from the Teubner edition of Catullus by W. Eisenhut (Leipzig 1983) will be provided in pdf format.
- Educational objectives
- The course represents the main opportunity in the three-year period of the classical curriculum to learn the entire historical design of Latin literature and to measure oneself with the methods of analyzing the literary text in the Latin language. It is a fundamental objective of the teaching to provide students with the bases and tools to face a cross-cutting literary theory discourse; therefore the main knowledge acquired must concern: 1. The knowledge of authors, works and epochs of Latin literature; 2. Knowledge of the salient characters of the main literary genres; 3. Knowledge of the foundations of the Latin literary system with regard to the literary object, the subjects of literary communication (literary community, author, publishing and public), the positioning of the text in time (transmission of the text) and in space (circulation of the text), with regard also to literary pragmatics; 4. Knowledge of the main elements of Latin versification. The main skill (that is the ability to apply the acquired knowledge) will be: Knowing how to read, translate, analyze and comment on a literary text in Latin, identifying the salient content elements and decoding the message.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand and be able to autonomously reuse / elaborate the literary knowledge and concepts foreseen by the teaching, it is necessary to have a good linguistic-grammatical knowledge. The analysis of the texts, which will be examined during the course, also requires good translation skills from Latin to Italian. The possession of the knowledge and skills mentioned above is an indispensable prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course profitably and who aspires to a concrete educational success.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing didactic method foresees lessons in the classroom assisted, if necessary, by multimedia tools; practical exercises of metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also foreseen. In-depth seminars are also planned.
As required by the note of the Minister of University and Research relating to phase 3 (September 2020-January 2021), without prejudice to any other change communicated by the competent authorities, blended teaching will be used (in presence and in telepresence at the same time) with synchronous and / or asynchronous mode. - Other information
- The student must autonomously deepen a critical reading among those that will be recommended during the course.
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation will be achieved after passing an oral examination, with the aim of verifying the acquisition of knowledge related to the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the late ancient age and of the theory of literary genres within the Latin literary system. The oral examination will also aim to verify the ability to read in metrics, translate, analyze and comment on a Latin literary text, chosen from among those covered by the monographic course, while verifying the real possession of linguistic knowledge of an adequate level. The timing of these oral assessments is governed by the calendar, approved by the Department Council. The duration of each single oral examination is quite considerable, since each evaluation includes the following phases: 1. Phase of literary knowledge verification through three open questions of history of literature and theory of literary genres; 2. Verification phase of textual analysis skills through metric reading, oral translation, analysis and comment of a text chosen in the context of the monographic topic deepened during the course; 3. Phase of exposure of a critical reading chosen by the student among those recommended during the course. The final assessment of the exam will result from the average of the assessments achieved in the three aforementioned phases.
- Extended program
- The course is divided into an institutional part and a monographic part. The first part will be aimed at providing a theoretical frame of reference concerning the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the Late Ancient Age, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary text. The second part will be devoted to the poetic production of Catullus which will be investigated both in the round and with attention to the various genres of Latin versification involved in it.
In addition to the short poetic genres, the genres of epithalamium and epyllion will be considered. Aspects relating to the manuscript tradition and the constitution of the text of Catullus will also be evaluated.