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 can be downloaded from the University website page ‘Materiali didattici’ starting in 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:
P. Ovidi Nasoni, Metamorphoses, edidit W. S. Anderson, Stutgardiae et Lipsia, in aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1996.
The text can be downloaded from the University website page ‘Materiali didattici’ starting in November.
For the exam, the metric reading, the translation and the comment of the verses of the VII book are required.
Non-attending students will adopt the following edition:
Ovidio, Metamorfosi, introduzione G. Rosati, trad. di G. Faranda Villa, note di R. Corti, BUR, Milano 1994.
For the exam, the metric reading, the translation and the comment of the verses of the VII book and the study of the introduction of the recommended edition are required.