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.

Reading, translation, and philological-stylistic commentary of selected prosaic and poetical texts of Classical period, with prosodic and metric analysis of the poetic language.

Analysis of the forms on which the Latin literary tradition related to the Poetic of Illusion is structured.

A) Basics (5 CFU)

It is required the knowledge of the basics of the History of Latin Literature, with special regard to the literary movements, literary genres, and main authors. For a review, students can be use one of the following texts, already adopted in the course of Latin language and literature for Bachelor's Degree in Letters:

• G. B. Conte, Letteratura latina. Manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell’impero romano, Firenze 1987, pp. 3-424 (or subsequent editions).
• 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:

• Lucretius, De rerum natura 4, 1058-1120. Suggested ed. : C. Bailey, Oxonii 1922².
• Virgil, Aeneid 4, 1-89. Suggested ed. : M. Geymonat, Roma 2008.
• Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4, 35; 5, 1-4. Suggested ed. : R. Helm, Leipzig 1992.

B) Detailed Studies (4 CFU)

The most significant manifestations of the Poetic of illusion: the representation of the invisible, the metaphor of the poetic dream, the ambiguity of the duplex imago from the archaic age to the second century A.D.

1. Reading of classical texts:

• Plautus, Amphitruo 94-152. Suggested ed. : W.M. Lindsay, Oxonii 1955.
• Ennius, Annales 1-21 Sk. Suggested ed. : O. Skutsch, Oxford 1985.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 3, 339-510; 10, 243-297. Suggested ed. : R.J. Tarrant, Oxonii 2004.

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

• S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Torino 1992 (o Roma 2017), pp. 17-88; 109-114; 120-122.
• L.Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica con cenni di metrica greca, Roma 2008, pp. 1-36 e 45.

2. Critical Essays

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

• D. Del Corno, I sogni e la loro interpretazione nell'età dell'impero, «ANRW» 16, 2, 1978, pp. 1605-1618.
• G. Rosati, Narciso e Pigmalione. Illusione e spettacolo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, Firenze 1983 (or Pisa 2016), elective/optional pp. 1-50 (cap. I, Narciso o l’illusione letteraria) or 51-93 (cap. II, Pigmalione o la poetica della finzione).
• C. Brillante, Metamorfosi di un’immagine: le statue animate e il sogno, in G. Guidorizzi (ed.), Il sogno in Grecia, Roma 1988, pp. 17-33.
• P. Cox Miller, Dreams in late Antiquity. Studies in the Imagination of a Culture, Princeton 1994, pp. 14-38.
• Ph. Hardie, Lucretius and the delusion of Narcissus, in Oxford readings in Ovid (ed. P. Knox), Oxford 2006, pp. 123-143.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.