Unit CULTURE AND LATIN LITERATURE

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
35990206
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Alessandra Di Pilla
Teachers
  • Alessandra Di Pilla
Hours
  • 48 ore - Alessandra Di Pilla
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
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 Augustinus. 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
Giovanna Garbarino - Lorenza Pasquariello, Vivamus. Cultura e letteratura latina, Volume unico, Paravia-Pearson.

The Latin author's texts to be read (in Italian translation) and any further material will be made available on www.unistudium.unipg.it platform. Students are recommended to register on the platform from the very beginning of the course.

Students with disabilities and / or with SLD, after consultation with the teacher, can request any didactic materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, exercises), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other facilitating technological tools in the study phase. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator.
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 (36 hours).
Integrative teaching with frontal modality, with possible use of multimedia supports (12 hours).

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 tele-presence 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.

Students with disabilities and / or with SLD: for general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator.
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.

Students with disabilities and / or with SLD: for the modality of the exam, students can take advantage of inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator.
Extended program
"A journey through Latin literature: authors, texts, cultural themes"

The course aims to offer a panorama of the main authors of Latin literature from its origins to Augustinus. The authors will be presented according to chronology, cultural context and literary genres and a choice of passages will be proposed for reading (in Italian translation): these readings are an integral part of the course, and therefore also subject to examination.

Lessons will cover the following path (in correspondence with the structure of the manual in adoption):

Dalle origini alla conquista del Mediterraneo
- Il contesto storico e culturale delle origini
- Le forme preletterarie orali e i primi documenti scritti
- La letteratura delle origini: oratoria, teatro e poesia epica (Appio Claudio Cieco; Livio Andronìco; Nevio)
- Plauto
- Epica, tragedia e storiografia: Ennio e Catone
- Terenzio
- Gli sviluppi della tragedia (Pacuvio e Accio) e la nascita della satira (Lucilio)
Dall’età dei Gracchi all’età di Cesare
- Il contesto storico e culturale
- Poesia e prosa tra II e I secolo a.C. (i poeti pre-neoterici; Varrone; Cornelio Nepote)
- Lucrezio
- Catullo
- Cicerone
- Cesare
- Sallustio
L’età di Augusto
- Il contesto storico e culturale
- Virgilio
- Orazio
- La poesia elegiaca: Tibullo e Properzio
- Ovidio
- Livio
Dalla prima età imperiale ai regni romano-barbarici
L’età giulio-claudia
- Poesia e prosa: Fedro; Valerio Massimo
- Seneca
- L’epica e la satira: Lucano e Persio
- Petronio
Dall’età dei Flavi al principato di Adriano
- Poesia e prosa: l’epica di Silio Italio, Valerio Flacco e Stazio;
- Plinio il Vecchio;
- Svetonio.

- Marziale e l’epigramma
- Quintiliano
- Giovenale
- Plinio il Giovane
- Tacito
Dall’età degli Antonini ai regni romano-barbarici
- Il contesto storico e culturale: cultura e letteratura pagana; il sorgere della letteratura cristiana
- Apuleio
- Agostino

The author's pieces to be read will be distributed during the lessons.
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