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 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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 framework of reference concerning the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the Late Antiquity, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary text. In particular, in order to provide an appropriate framework for the monographic course, the literature of the 1st century AD will be studied in depth. The second part will be dedicated to reading and commenting on the tragedy Hercules Oetaeus attributed to Seneca.
- Reference texts
- For the history of Latin Literature one of the following manuals is recommended (but other manuals are also accepted to be agreed with the teacher): G. Garbarino, Letteratura latina (in 3 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, trad. it. a cura di A. Setaioli, Einaudi 1995; F. Stok, Letteratura latina. Generi e percorsi, Roma, Carocci, 2020. For the monographic part: the text will be provided in pdf in unistudium.
- Educational objectives
- The course represents the main opportunity in the three-year period to learn the entire historical design of Latin literature and to measure oneself with the methodologies of analysis of the literary text in Latin. The fundamental objective of the teaching is to provide students with the bases and tools to tackle a transversal discourse of literary theory; therefore the main acquired knowledge must concern: 1. Knowledge of authors, works and eras of Latin literature; 2. Knowledge of the salient features of the main literary genres; 3. Knowledge of the foundations of the Latin literary institution 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 (ie 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 elements of content and decoding its message.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand and be able to reuse and autonomously elaborate the knowledge and literary concepts envisaged 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 translation skills from Latin into Italian. Possession of the aforementioned knowledge and skills is an indispensable prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course successfully and who aspires to concrete educational success.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing teaching method foresees lectures in the classroom supported, if necessary, by multimedia tools; practical exercises in metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also provided. In-depth seminars are also planned.
All this if it is compatible with the pandemic situation and the legislation in force from time to time. - Other information
- Students can acquire a further 3 credits (to be recognized among the 6 of additional knowledge) by preparing a written report on a topic relating to the course agreed with the teacher. Credits will be recognized after a positive evaluation of the report by the teacher.
The report must be a maximum of 10 pp. about 2000 characters; he must critically use the bibliography and the text must be accompanied by notes. - Learning verification modality
- The assessment will be achieved after passing an oral exam, with the aim of verifying the acquisition of knowledge relating to the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the Late Antiquity and of the theory of literary genres within the Latin literary system. The oral exam will also have the purpose of verifying the ability to read in metrics, translate, analyze and comment on a Latin literary text, chosen from those covered by the monographic course, while verifying the actual 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 oral exam is quite considerable, since each evaluation includes the following phases: 1. Phase of verification of literary knowledge 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 commentary of a passage chosen within the monographic topic studied in depth during the course.
- Extended program
- The course is divided into an institutional part and a monographic part. The first part will be aimed at providing a theoretical framework of reference concerning the historical design of Latin literature from its origins to the Late Antiquity, with particular regard to the theory of literary genres and notions of method useful for the analysis of the Latin literary text. The history of first century Latin literature will be studied in depth. The second part will be dedicated to the tragedy Hercules Oetaeus by Ps. Seneca. The debated question of authenticity of this tragedy will be examined, outlining its history and discussing various hypotheses of relative chronology; Furthermore, the content and formal aspects of the drama (meter, language, style, dramatic technique) will be analyzed, relating them to the issue of authorial attribution.