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STAR06 - ESEGESI DEI TESTI LATINI

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ID:
STAR06
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA LATINA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
Course Details:
HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...
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Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The Course, in harmony with the objectives of the Study Courses in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Tradition, BASA and STAR aims at
1) increase students' philological-literary knowledge
2) develop their autonomy of judgement
3) and communication skills through the organisation of seminar activities.
At the end of the Course the student shall:
1) have acquired an adequate knowledge of: a) the distinctive features of the epic genre; b) the peculiarities of the Metamorphoses also with reference to the contamination of genres carried out by the poet; d) the contents of book X of the poem; e) the relationship with the Virgilian model;
2) having deepened knowledge of the Latin language;
3) having enhanced the critical-textual skills acquired during the previous three-year period.

Course Prerequisites

Good knowledge of Latin language and Literature

Teaching Methods

Lectures: 36 hrs Seminars: 6 hrs

Assessment Methods

The final assessment consists of in 1) a written 2) and an oral exam.
1) The written exam consists of the translation from Latin into Italian of a piece by a Latin author. The correctness of the translation and the quality of the written expression will be evaluated. The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
To sit for the oral exam students must first pass the written exam (pass mark: 18/30). The oral exam will be evaluated from 0 to 6. The final grade results from the sum of the two parts.
2) The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess the students’ skills and in particular their understanding of the issues discussed during the course, their knowledge of the bibliography in the reading list, the correct command of the specific language as well as of critical and methodological abilities. The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18- 21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Texts

P. Ovidi Nasoni, Metamorphoses, edidit W. S. Anderson, Stutgardiae et Lipsiae, in aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1996

The text will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of January 2026.

Non-attending students will adopt the following edition, accompanied by an Italian translation, also studying the Introduction

Ovidio, Metamorfosi, a cura di P. Bernardini Marzolla, Torino, Einaudi 2015.

Contents

Orpheus and his song in Ovid, Metamorphoses X

Course Language

Italian

More information

The teacher will meet the students in the hour following the lessons

Degrees

Degrees

HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE 
Master’s Degree
2 years
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People

People

DOMENICUCCI Patrizio
AREA MIN. 10 - Scienze dell'antichita,filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche
Gruppo 10/LATI-01 - LINGUA E LETTERATURA LATINA
Settore LATI-01/A - Lingua e letteratura latina
Docenti di ruolo di Ia fascia
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