ANALYSIS OF LATIN TEXTS

The course of LATIN TEXTS ANALYSIS SP. (one unit of 6 CFU or, as a part of PHILOLOGY AND LATIN TEXTS ANALYSIS, 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 read 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 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 TEXTS ANALYSIS requires a general knowledge of the history of Latin language and literature and a linguistic competence of Latin at least at an intermediate level.
To access the exam students must also certify their knowledge of Latin language by passing the Test of Latin 2 (https://www.unive.it/data/insegnamento/362074 ).

Love, poetry, freedom. Selected readings from Vergil's eclogues.
Vergil's eclogues are the earliest work by this author. Written before the commitment with Mecenas and Octavian, they are a collection of 10 pieces dealing with archetypical themes, like Love, Poetry, Freedom. Each poem is deeply connected with the others, since the author built a refined architecture providing the reader with a real masterpiece.

Bibliography
1) Selection of readings from the classes (PDF available on Moodle).
2) J. Van Sickle, Poesia e potere. Il mito Virgilio, Roma-Bari 1986
3) R.J. Tarrant, Aspects of Virgil’s reception in antiquity, in Ch. Martindale (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Cambridge 1997, pp. 56-72 (disponibile in BAUM: ANCLA-LAT Verg IV M 384)
4) M. Gioseffi, Staffette esegetiche. Concatenazione di note fra i lettori tardoantichi a Virgilio, in Strategie del commento a testi greci e latini. Atti del convegno [Fisciano, 16-18 novembre 2006], a cura di P. Esposito e P. Volpe Cacciatore, Soveria Mannelli 2008, pp. 82-99 (PDF su Moodle)
5) M. Venuti, Deductum dicere carmen: nota a Verg. ecl. 6,5, «Paideia»72, 2017, pp. 683-699 (PDF su Moodle)
6) Home reading (in Latin):
Catullo, Carmi 1-51; 61-68, a cura di A. Fo, Torino 2018 (disponibile in BAUM
LIBRITESTO Catull I F 649 CONS-LAT)

Non attending students (please get in touch with the teacher) will replace the home reading (#6) with Lucrezio, “De rerum natura”, libro I or Cicerone, "In difesa di Marco Celio".

Oral exam. Learning outcome is verified through an interview in which students must demonstrate to be able to read, understand, translate into Italian a text from the ones discussed during the classes or assigned as personal reading. Moreover, they are required to comment the text by a stylistic and historical-literary point of view; students must also be able to discuss the bibliography and to use it in the interpretation of texts.

Blended: traditional classes and online sessions.

Italian

For further information, see https://www.unive.it/pag/26427/ .

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