LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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

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.

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

A) Basics (5 CFU)

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, 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

• Lucrece, De rerum natura 6, 608-711. Suggested ed.: C. Bailey, Oxonii 1922².
• Virgil, Aeneid 3, 568-683. Suggested ed.: M. Geymonat, Roma 2008.
• Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 10, 1, 85-130. Suggested ed.: L. Radermacher, II, Lipsiae 1965.

B) Detailed Studies (4 CFU)

Dynamics of mirabilia in Latin literary production from the age of Caesar to the second century A.D.: the man, the supernatural, and the sacred.

• Ovid, Heroides 12. Suggested ed.: H. Dörrie, Berolini et Novae Eboraci 1971.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 13, 750-897. Suggested ed.: R. J. Tarrant, Oxonii 2004.
• Lucan, Pharsalia 6, 438-569. Suggested ed.: D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Stutgardiae 1988.
• Seneca, Medea 670-739. Suggested ed.: O. Zwierlein, Oxonii 1986.

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; 109-116; 122-124.
• L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica con cenni di metrica greca, Roma 2008, pp. 1-38 e 40-41.

Critical Essays

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

• A. Cima, La Medea di Seneca e la Medea di Ovidio, «Atene e Roma» 67-68, 1904, pp. 225-229.
• S. Cecchin, Medea in Ovidio fra elegia ed epos, Atti delle giornate di studio su Medea, a c. di R. Uglione, Torino 1997, pp. 69-89.
• L. Baldini Moscadi, I volti di Medea: la maga e la virgo nella Medea di Seneca, «Paideia» 53, 1998, pp. 9-25.
• W. Schubert, Medea in der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, in A. Kämmerer, M. Schuchard, A. Speck (ed.), Medeas Wandlungen. Studien zu einem Mythos in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Heidelberg 1998, pp. 55-91.
• E. Narducci, Un’epica contro l’impero, Roma-Bari 2002.
• J. Thomas, Mirabilia. Tropismes de l’immaginaire antique, in Conceptions et représentations de l’extraordinaire dans le monde antique, (edd.) O. Bianchi, O. Thévenaz, Bern 2004, pp. 1-13.

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