LATIN LITERATURE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LC027

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DOMENICUCCI Patrizio

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

162

Prerequisites:

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

Objectives

6 ECTS
1) 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 adequate knowledge through the analytical examination of the text a) of the contents and formal characteristics of Tacitus’ Historiae, with particular reference to the book 5; b) of the the historical and ideological significance of the work; 2) strengthen language skills in the context of Latin.

Contents

6 ECTS
Issues of Latin literature: genres and authors

3 ECTS
Tacitus Historiae V

Extended Syllabus

6 ECTS
- Definition of literary genre - Literary genres in Antiquity
Analysis of pieces taken from Plato, de republica; Aristotle, Poetics; Dionysius Thrax; Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria; Ovid, remedia amoris - Roma erotic Elegy: its salient features; Greek Elegy; the elegiac couplet; Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid; Elegy and bucolic Poetry; Elegy and didactic Poetry
- The epic genre
The epic genre: its salient features; Greek oral epics; Hexameter; heroic epics, historical epics, didactic epics; Latin epics (Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus); Ennius and Lucan: their peculiarities
- The satire genre
- Lyric Poetry
- Iambic Poetry
Non-attending students will replace the topics treated in class with reading and translating of Vergil, Aeneid III

3 ECTS
Biography and works of Tacitus.
- Introduction to Tacitus’ Historiae: literary genre and contents; history and ethnography; language and style of the work;
- Reading, translation and commentary of Tacitus’ Historiae 5

Recommended Bibliography

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:
Cornelius Tacitus II 1, Historiae, ed. K. Wellesley, Leipzig, Teubner 1989
The text will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of November.
For the exam, the translation and the comment of Tacitus’ Historiae V are required.

Non-attending students will adopt the following edition:
Tacito, Le storie, a cura di Francesca Nenci, Milano, Mondadori 2019

For the exam, the translation, the comment of Tacitus’ Historiae V and the study of the introduction of the recommended edition are required.

Teaching Methods

Lectures: 54 hrs
Practical exercises: 9 hrs

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

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.

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Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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