MM228N - LATIN LITERATURE

courses
ID:
MM228N
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA LATINA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
HUMANITIES/LETTERE MODERNE Year: 2
HUMANITIES/LINGUAGGI DELLA MUSICA, DELLO SPETTACOLO E DEI MEDIA Year: 2
HUMANITIES/STORIA Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


6 ECTS1) Knowledge of the nature and function of literary genres and of the main problems and authors of the Latin literature; 2) enhancement of linguistic competence related to Latin; 3) introduction to the study of the Latin metric with particular reference to the hexameter and of the elegiac couplet.
3 ECTS
The Course aims to achieve the following objectives: 1) to provide, through the analytical examination of the text, adequate knowledge of a) the contents and formal characteristics of Horatian lyric poetry with particular reference to the third book of the carmina; b) the ethical, political-ideological and literary meaning of the carmina, privileging in this regard the examination of the relationships with Greek models; 2) to strengthen linguistic skills in the Latin context; 3) to strengthen and broaden metrical skills.

Course Prerequisites


Knowledge of the normative grammar of the Latin language (phonetics, morphology, syntax).

Teaching Methods


Lectures: 54 hrs Practical exercises: 9 hrs

Assessment Methods


In progress checks.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 three passages taken from Verg. Aen. 1 and 2, Caes. De bello Gallico, VII, 1-50 and of the texts treated in class. The correctness of the translation and the quality of the written expression will be evaluated. Non-attending students will not translate the texts treated in class.2) The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated.The grading scale goes 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 enter the oral exam the written test must be passed with a minimum of 18/30. For the final mark the score obtained in the written text can be increased for a maximum of 4 points for 6 credits and 6 points for 9 credits.

Texts


6 ECTS
Reading and translation of Virgil, Aeneid I and II; Caesar, De bello Gallico, VII, 1-50, and the texts examined in class are required.- Students must know the following authors of the Latin literature: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Plautus, Terentius, Lucilius, Accius, Pacuvius, Lucretius, Catullus, Cicero, Sallustius, Caesar, Varro Reatinus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Livius, Seneca, Lucan, Petronius, Persius, Pliny the elder, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Quintilian, Plinius the younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Jerome, Augustine.- Knowledge of notions of prosody and metric and the reading of the hexameter and of the elegiac couplet are required.- The texts that will be examined in class will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of September- Students can choose an edition of the Aeneid in an economic series (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli).- Students can choose Cesare, La disfatta della Gallia (De bello Gallico VII), a cura di G. Cipriani, Venezia, Marsilio 1994 or an integral edition of the De bello Gallico (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti).- for the Latin literature G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina. Manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Milano, Mondadori 1987 (and subsequent reprints) or a good Latin Literature text used in high schools are reccomended.- For metric and prosody L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina con cenni di metrica greca, Roma, Dante Alighieri 1998 (and subsequent reprints) is reccomended.
3 ECTS
Attending students will adopt the following edition:
Horatius carmina liber III, edidit D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Stuttgardiae, Teubner 1985
The text will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of November.
Non-attending students will adopt the following edition:
Orazio, Odi ed Epodi, introduzione di A. Traina, trad. e note di E. Mandruzzato, Milano, 1985 Rizzoli.
For the exam, the translation, the comment of Horace's carmina 3 and the study of the introduction of the recommended edition are required.

Contents


6 ECTS
Issues of Latin literature: genres and authors
3 ECTS
Horace, carmina 3

Course Language


Italian

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

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