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Professor
Academic discipline: Lingua e letteratura latina (L-FIL-LET/04)
Field: Civiltà antiche e medievali
Type of training activity: Basic

80 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Learning objectives

Good knowledge of Latin language and literature.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Lecture course: Lyrical poetry in the Roman society of I century b. C.

Full programme

Reading of Catullus' and Horatius' carmina about love, frienship, art of poetry
Morphology and syntax
History of Latin literature
Reading texts of Cicero, Vergilius, Seneca

Bibliography

Lecture part:
Reading texts will be announced during the lectures.
General part:
Morphology and syntax (Ghiselli, Il nuovo libro di latino,
Traina - Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario.
Cicero, Pro Caelio (any edition).
Virgil, Aeneid, Book III (any edition).
Seneca, De providentia
History of Latin literature (in one of the following editions: G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Florence 2002; G. Garbarino, Storia e testi della letteratura latina, Turin 2001; A. Cavarzere, A. De Vivo, P. Mastrandrea, Letteratura latina, Roma 2003).

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and seminars.

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists of a preliminary written test and an oral test.

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