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
- Hours
- 48 ore - Alessandra Di Pilla
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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 and texts (with an anthology of readings)”
The course aims to offer an overview of Latin literature from its origins to Apuleius (II AD). During the lessons, the main authors will be presented, classified according to the chronology and the political-cultural context, with reference to literary genres. For most authors, a series of texts to read (in Italian translation) will be indicated, which can be found in the manual in adoption and provided by the teacher, who will make them available on the unistudium platform. - 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 who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- Acquire a good knowledge of the principal Latin authors and their production, also in relation to literary genres, such as the foundations of Western culture.
- 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). - Other information
- From the beginning of the lessons, students are required to register on the course page on the platform www.unistudium.unipg.it.
The teacher will be available weekly during office hours to be communicated at the beginning of the semester.
Working students and not-attending students are required to contact the teacher.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Learning verification modality
- A single oral exam (not divisible).
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 (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Extended program
- "A journey through Latin literature: authors and texts (with an anthology of readings)”
The course aims to offer an overview of Latin literature from its origins to Apuleius (II AD). During the lessons, the main authors will be presented, classified according to the chronology and the political-cultural context, with reference to literary genres. For most authors, a series of texts to read (in Italian translation) will be indicated, which can be found in the manual in adoption and also provided by the teacher, who will make them available on the unistudium platform.
The course also offers 12 hours of supplementary teaching (2 hours a week), dedicated to a recovery and strengthening of the historical-literary themes presented in the lessons.
For the purposes of the exam, the student must know (through the path taken in class and in the supplementary hours, the personal study of the manual, the reading of the texts) the following authors:
REPUBLICAN AGE
The archaic age: from the origins to the conquest of the Mediterranean (mid-3rd century - 133 BC)
1. The origins and birth of Latin literature: pre-literary age; archaic epic and tragedy (Livy Andronicus, Nevius, Ennius).
2. The comic theatre: Plautus and Terence
3. The beginnings of oratory, technical treatises and historiography: Cato
4. The birth of satire: Lucilius
From the age of the Gracchi to the age of Caesar (133 - 44 BC)
5. Cornelius Nepos and the genre of biography
6. Lucretius
7. The pre-neoteric poets and Catullus
8. Cicero
9. Caesar
10. Sallust
AUGUSTAN AGE (44 BC - 14 AD)
11. Virgil
12. Horace
13. Elegiac poetry (Propertius)
14. Ovid
15. Livy
IMPERIAL AGE (until 2nd AD)
Age of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (14-68)
1. Seneca
2. Petronius
3. Lucan
Age of the Flavian dynasty (69-96)
4. Quintilian
5. Pliny the Elder
6. Martial
Age of Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138)
7. Juvenal
8. Tacitus
9. Suetonius
Age of the Antonines (138-192)
10. Apuleius - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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