Latin Language and Civilization

Knowledge related to Latin civilization, scientific culture and literary culture.

Overall analysis of the Latin literature, with an examination of a specific literary field, through the reading, translation, and philological-stylistic commentary of selected prosaic and poetical texts of Classical period, with prosodic and metric analysis of the poetic language.

Forms and functions of literature on ancient cities: urban planning, mythopoeia and erudite historicism.

A) Basics (2 CFU)

• M. Geymonat - L. Fort, Dialogare con il passato. Corso di lingua latina, Bologna 1998, pp. 1-321.
• A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini (a c. di C. Marangoni), Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna 1998⁶, pp. 117-139; 147-193; 201-235.
• S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Torino 1992 (or Roma 2017), pp. 17-88; 109-116; 166-168.

B) Detailed Studies (3 CFU)

Imago urbis: between the real city and the ideal city.

Reading of classical texts:

• Vitruvius, De architectura 1, 6, 1 and 12; 1, 7. Suggested ed.: P. Fleury, Paris 1990; 2, 8, 11-13. Suggested ed.: L. Callebat, Paris 1999.
• Virgil, Aeneid 8, 306-369. Suggested ed.: G.B. Conte, Berlin 2009.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 36, 91-93. Suggested ed.: J. André, Paris 1981.
• Statius, Silvae 4, 3. Suggested ed.: A. Marastoni, Leipzig 1970.
• Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, Augustus 28-31. Suggested ed: M. Ihm, Monachii et Lipsiae 1933

C) Critical Essays (1 CFU)

It is required the knowledge of one of the following studies (elective/optional):

• M.A. Levi, La città antica. Morfologia e biografia della aggregazione urbana nell’antichità, Roma 1989, pp. 405-458.
• J.P. Morel, L’artigiano, in A. Giardina (a c. di), L’uomo romano, Roma-Bari 1989, pp. 235-268.
• U.E. Paoli, Urbs. Aspetti di vita romana antica, Firenze 1942², pp. 1-68.

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