LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Learning of a critical method for a philological-literary analysis of prosaic and poetic texts, for the definition of the main literary genres.

Lectures.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.

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 poetic texts, with prosodic and metric analysis of the poetic language. The course wil focus in particular on the treatment of love speechs through reading, translation, stylistic-philological commentary of texts with prosodic-metrical analysis of the poetic language.

A) Basics (5 ECTS)

Knowledge of the basics of the History of Latin Literature, with special regard to the literary movements, literary genres, and main authors.

Suggested texts (elective/optional):

• G. B. Conte, E. Pianezzola, Letteratura e cultura latina, in 3 volumes: I. L’età arcaica e repubblicana (pp. 2-42; 92-108; 115-123; 165-166; 170-208; 267-270; 276-283; 338-346; 402-414; 474-487); II. L’età augustea (pp. 2-14; 15-32; 131-152; 226-239; 281-300; 360-368; 417-418); III. L’età imperiale (pp. 2-15; 17-19; 26-43; 113-123; 146-159; 189-201; 222-225; 228-231; 238-243; 273-279; 300-310; 319-335; 399-402; 415-426), Milano 2016 (total number of pages: 362).
• V. Citti - Claudia Casali - C. Neri, Gli autori nella letteratura latina. Disegno storico. Dalle origini alla tarda latinità, Bologna 2005, pp. 7-337.

Reading of classical texts

• Virgil Aeneid 4, 1-85. Suggested ed.: M. Geymonat, Roma 2008², pp. 289-294.
• Horace Odes 1, 13; 19; 23. Suggested ed.: F. Klingner, Lipsiae 1959³, pp. 16-17; 23; 26-27.
• Livy Ab Urbe condita libri 1, 11 e 13. Suggested ed.: R.M. Ogilvie, Oxonii 1974, pp. 16-18.
• Ovid Heroides 7. Suggested ed.: H. Dörrie, Berolini-Novae Eboraci 1971, pp. 104-115.
• Apuleius Metamorphoses 8, 8-10. Suggested ed.: R. Helm, Stutgardiae-Lipsiae 1931³, pp. 182-185.

B) DETAILED STUDIES (3 ECTS)

The language of eros between lyric poetry and elegy: stylistic changes and rhetoric norms of the literary genre.

• Catullus Poems 5, 7, 51, 87. Suggested ed.: D.F.S. Thomson, Toronto-Buffalo-London 1997, pp. 102-104; 130; 183.
• Propertius Elegies 1,18; 2, 3. Suggested ed.: P. Fedeli, Stutgardiae 1984, pp. 37-39; 52-56.

Prosodic reading of the poetic texts listed in the programme is required. The following reference is recommended (elective/optional):

• S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Torino 1992 (or Roma 2017), pp. 21-81; 109-116; 165-168; 175-179.
• L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica con cenni di metrica greca, Roma 2008, pp. 1-40; 56-57; 62; 68-69; 71; 75-77.

C) CRITICAL ESSAYS (1 ECTS)

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

• A. La Penna, L’integrazione difficile. Un profilo di Properzio, Torino 1977, pp. 16-92.
• M. Labate, L’arte di farsi amare. Modelli culturali e progetto didascalico nell’elegia ovidiana, Pisa 1984, pp. 12-232.
• F.D. Kennedy, The arts of love, Cambridge 1993, pp. 1-107.
• L. Piazzi, Heroidum epistula VII. Dido Aeneae, Firenze 2007, pp. 13-93.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library. Specifc papers and sections of selected volumes, as well as lecture notes, will be made available for free consultation on the digital platform Studium.