ADVANCED LATIN LABORATORY

The Department of Humanistic Studies (Ca' Foscari) provides students the Advanced Latin Laboratory (Lab. II) in order to help them to improve their knowledge of the Latin language and fill gaps in its preparation. The course is *functional* to the advanced Latin courses; addressed are all students who have to take advanced Latin exams in their bachelor's and master's degree courses and who need to fill gaps in its own preparation.

Good knowledge of Latin morphology and syntax that allows the translation of texts by different authors and styles.

Knowledge of the grammatical and logical structures of the Italian language.
Knowledge of the basic morphology and syntax of the Latin language.

The teaching activity focuses on the Latin syntax.
I. Syntax of cases (subject, predicate, predicate concordances, attribute and apposition, pronoun concordances);
1. nominative (the case of the subject, the double nominative, personal constructions);
2. genitive (the functions of the genitive; genitive dependent on verbs, adjectives, present participles);
3. dative (functions of the dative, dative supported by adjectives);
4. accusative (the double accusative, accusative of extension and exclamatory);
5. ablative (functions and regencies);
6. vocative

II. Syntax of verbs
III. Syntax in periods

-M. Fucecchi, L. Graverini, La lingua latina, Milano 2016 (II edizione).
-Tullio Bertotti, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina. Teoria, terza edizione, Pàtron 2015 (ristampa anastatica).

For advanced students: Alfonso Traina, Giorgio Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, sesta edizione riveduta e aggiornata a cura di Claudio Marangoni, Pàtron 1998.

Translation of a text from Latin into Italian and three short questions related to the submitted text.

[Correction Method]
The Italian translation of the Latin text is decisive for the outcome of the test: recognition and correct rendering of the main verbal, nominal and generally syntactic structures of the Latin language.
The answer to the three questions relating to the text can have a discriminating value only if the teacher is strongly in doubt about the evaluation of the translation.

-Frontal lesson
-structured exercises concerning syntax
-translation from Latin into Italian

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