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 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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
- 1) Lectures (36 hours): presentation of the main authors of Latin literature (historical and cultural context, profile, works, literary genre of reference) from its origins to Apuleius (2nd AD), with short readings of author passages in translation Italian.
2) Supplementary teaching (12 hours): notions (basic or strengthening) relating to Roman history and civilisation.
3) Part of the program is the reading, by the student, of a short work of Latin literature (or part of a major work) in Italian translation, chosen by the student. - Reference texts
- Hand-books: Giovanna Garbarino - Lorenza Pasquariello, Vivamus. Latin culture and literature, Single volume, Paravia-Pearson.
Or: Gian Biagio Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, 20192, Le Monnier Università. (Also available in English translation: Gian Biagio Conte, Latin literature. A history, Baltimore and London 1999).
Short authors’ passages to read (in Italian translation): they will be indicated by the teacher during the classes and will be available on https://unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the page dedicated to CULTURA E LETTERATURA LATINA 2024/25
A short work of Latin literature (or part of a larger work) to be read by the student (in Italian translation): it will be chosen by the student from the list provided by the teacher (see below).
Working students and non-attending students:
- they will study the authors in the program on the following hand-book: Gian Biagio Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Le Monnier Università 2019;
- they will read two short works of Latin literature (or a major work in full) of their choice (in Italian translation), according to the list provided by the teacher (see below).
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
- Placed in the first year of the curriculum, the course aims to put the student in contact with the Latin cultural world, an essential component of Western civilization and imagination, through its literary testimonies.
The student will know profile and works of the main authors of Latin literature; will acquire at a basic level the ability to insert them into the relevant historical-cultural context and reference genres, also through the reading of short author texts (in Italian translation).
Through the reading (in Italian translation) of a short work or part of a major work of Latin literature, the student will have the opportunity to come into contact with one of the most interesting and stimulating forms of classical 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).
In the academic year 2023/2024 the University of Perugia has foreseen that 11 categories of students could be admitted to the use of distance learning (DaD). Any interested students are invited to check the possibility of following the classes in DaD on the website https://www.unipg.it/didattica/procedura-dad - Other information
- From the beginning of the classes, students are required to register in https://unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php (CULTURA E LETTERATURA LATINA 2024/25)
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
- Number of tests:
A single oral exam (not divisible).
Objective of the exam:
- verify knowledge of the profile and works of the main authors of Latin literature and the ability, at least basic, to insert them in the relevant historical-cultural context and in their own literary genres, also referring to short author texts (in Italian translation) presented during classes.
- verify the reading and understanding of the short work (or part of a major work) chosen by the student (ability to frame and summarize).
How the exam will be administered:
The exam consists of an interview with two open-ended questions. A first question will concern an author chosen by the teacher from the scheduled list (see above); a second question will concern a brief comment on the work that the student will have read of his choice (in Italian translation).
The average duration of the exam is 20 minutes.
Final measurement of the exam:
rating out of thirty, resulting from an average of the rating of the two answers.
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
- 1) The lectures will be dedicated to the presentation of the main authors of Latin literature (historical and cultural context, profile, works, literary genre of reference) from its origins to Apuleius (2nd AD), according to the list (A) attached here, with short readings of author texts in Italian translation.
2) In the hours of supplementary teaching, space will be dedicated above all to notions (basic or strengthening) relating to Roman history and culture.
3) The student will choose, from the list (B) attached here, a short work of Latin literature (or part of a longer work) and will read it (by his/her own care) in Italian translation, with the aim of knowing how to frame it and summarize orally during the exam.
List (A) - authors of Latin literature to be known for the exam:
REPUBLICAN AGE
The archaic age: from the origins to the conquest of the Mediterranean (mid-3rd century – 133 BC)
1. At the origins: archaic epic and tragedy (Livy Andronicus, Nevius, Ennius).
2. The comic theatre: Plautus and Terence.
3. Cato.
4. The birth of satire: Lucilius.
From the age of the Gracchi to the age of Caesar (133 - 44 BC)
5. Lucretius.
6. The pre-neoteric poets and Catullus.
7. Cicero.
8. Caesar.
9. Sallust.
AUGUSTAN AGE (44 BC - 14 AD)
1. Virgil.
2. Horace.
3. Elegiac poetry: Propertius.
4. Ovid
5. 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. Martial
Age of Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138)
6. Suetonius
7. Juvenal
8. Tacitus
Age of the Antonines (138-192)
9. Apuleius
List (B) - indications for works for personal reading (choose one):
1. Epic (choose one):
a) historical e.: VIRGIL, Aeneid, book IV or book VI.
b) didactic e.: LUCRECE, The Nature, book III; or VIRGIL, Georgics, book IV.
c) mythological e.: OVID, Metamorphoses, a book chosen from I; III; IV; VIII; IX; X; XV.
2. Satire:
HORACE, Satires, from book I: 1, 2, 6, and from book II: 2, 6; or JUVENAL, Satires, book I, satire 3;
3. Lyrical and elegiac poetry:
CATULLUS, The Poems, c. 64; or PROPERTIUS, Elegies book I; or OVID, Letters of heroines 1, 7, 20, 21.
4. Oratory:
CICERO, Catilinariae, First Oration; or Orations against Verres: Preliminary debate against Caecilius (Divinatio) and First oration.
5. Historiography:
CAESAR, The Gallic War, books I-IV; or SALLUSTIUS, The Conspiracy of Catiline; or LIVIUS, History of Rome from its foundation, books I-V; or TACITUS, Annals, book XIII (beginning of Nero's principate).
6. Biography:
SVETONIUS, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Book VI (Life of Nero); or TACITUS, Life of Agricola;
7. Philosophical Prose:
CICERO, Laelius or on friendship; or SENECA, a dialogue chosen between: The brevity of life (De brevitate vitae); Happiness (De vita beata), Tranquility of the soul (De tranquillitate animi).
8. Novel:
PETRONIUS, from the Satyricon: chaps. 27-78 (Trimalchio's dinner); or APULEIUS, The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, books I-VI. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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