LATIN LITERATURE

The course of LATIN LITERATURE (alone = 6 CFU or as part of LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, 12 CFU) falls within the "Core educational activities" of the study plan of the Master's Degree Programmes in Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology and in Italian Philology and Literature. It aims to refine the student's knowledge of language and style, authors, genres and works of Latin literature and of their critical problems, and contributes to enrich the knowledge of western cultural history and literary traditions, of methods and tools of literary history and philology and of their specialized languages.

The outcome of this course would be the detailed knowledge of a work or of a selection of Latin literary texts in the original language, and of their historical and interpretative problems in the framework of the contemporary scientific debate. Students should be able to read, understand, translate into Italian and comment on the historical-literary and stylistic plan the texts treated during the course, to discuss the interpretation proposed by the teacher and the bibliography, to contextualize authors and works studied during the course in the cultural and literary tradition of classical antiquity. Students should then be able to repeat the same type of analysis, applying the methods learned during the course, on a further sample of texts assigned as personal readings.
Already equipped with linguistic skills at least intermediate level, students should also acquire through the course a greater familiarity with the Latin literary language, a broader set of linguistic knowledge and a more confident ability in translation from Latin into Italian; at the same time, the study of the bibliography should refine the students' knowledge of the concepts and critical vocabulary of philology and literary history, and their ability to discuss literary topics and texts.

The exam of LATIN LITERATURE requires a general knowledge of the history of Latin language and literature and a linguistic competence of Latin at least intermediate level.
To access the exam students must also certify their knowledge of Latin language by passing the Test of Latin 2 (http://www.unive.it/data/insegnamento/263176 ).

"Laboriosus vitae meae ordo": a reading of the Eucharisticos by Paolino di Pella.
An exceptional testimony to the crisis of late Roman Gaul between the 4th and 5th centuries, from the prosperity of the Theodosian age to the iron age of the settlement of the Visigoths; the poetic autobiography of an octogenarian who experienced the collapse of the provincial empire.

1) Notes from the lessons.
2) A. MARCONE, Introduzione a PAOLINO DI PELLA, Discorso di ringraziamento, a cura di A.M., Fiesole, Nardini, 1995 (reference edition for the translation and the commentary) [coll. BAUM: CONS-LAT Paul Pell II euch M 321]
3) E. COLOMBI, "Rusticitas" e vita in villa nella Gallia tardoantica: tra realtà e letteratura, Athenaeum 84 (1996) pp. 405-443 [https://search.proquest.com/docview/1300399838?accountid=17274 ]
4) G. POLARA, Tra invasioni e sommosse: dalla certezza sul destino eterno di Roma al "saeculum senescens", in: G. Urso (ed.), "Terror et pavor": violenza, intimidazione, clandestinità nel mondo antico. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 22-24 settembre 2005, Pisa, ETS, 2006, pp. 335-348 [http://www.fondazionecanussio.org/atti2005/18Polara.pdf ]
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5) N.B. McLYNN, Paulinus the impenitent: a study of the Eucharisticos, Journal of Early Christian Studies 3 (1995) pp. 461-486 [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/244770/pdf ]
6) A. COŞKUN, Notes on the « Eucharisticos » of Paulinus Pellaeus: towards a new edition of the autobiography, Exemplaria Classica 9 (2005) 113-153 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20474766 ]
7) A. COŞKUN, The "Eucharisticos" of Paulinus Pellaeus: Towards a Reappraisal of the Worldly Convert's Life and Autobiography, Vigiliae Christianae 60 (2006), pp. 285-315 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20474766 ]
8) J.W. OSGOOD, The education of Paulinus of Pella: learning in the late empire, in: S. McGill-C. Sogno-E. Watts (eds.), From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians: Later Roman History and Culture, 284– 450 CE, Cambridge 2010, pp. 135-152 (testo fornito dal docente in Moodle)

9) Personal reading: in addition to the texts discussed during the course, students will read AUGUSTINE, Confessiones, first book (in the original language, using any edition with the Latin text) on their own.

Learning is verified through an oral interview in which the students must demonstrate to be able to read, understand, translate into Italian and comment on the stylistic and historical-literary level some passages of the work or selection of texts which has been read by the teacher or assigned as personal reading; students must also be able to discuss the bibliography and to use it in the interpretation of texts.

Traditional lessons, mainly based on reading, translation, linguistic, stylistic and historical-literary commentary of the texts covered by the course, with illustration of the related critical problems. During the lessons students are involved in the discussion of specific topics or critical problems, of the theses supported in the bibliography and are invited to propose and explain their own opinions.

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