Learning objectives
The reading and metric and stylistic analysis of passages from different literary genres and authors will serve to outline the principal lines of Latin panegyric poetry.
Prerequisites
Students must have acquired 10 credits in the 'Latin language and literature' SDA (L-FIL-LET/04).
Course unit content
Course title: Epic panegyric poetry.
The course includes reading and analysis of poems (Laus Pisonis; Panegyricus Messallae) whose complex rhetoric structure realizes the cross over between epic items and panegyric elements. The literary genre of the epic panegyric will be developed in the late antiquity by Claudianus and Sidonius Apollinaris. Knowledge of the fundamentals of style, prosody and metre are expected.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Core content:
Boldrini, S. La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani. Rome: Carocci, 2001.
Lunelli, A, ed. La lingua poetica latina (essays from W. Kroll, H.H. Jahnssen, M. Leumann), IV updated edition. Bologna: Pàtron, 2011.
Monographic part:
Readings and texts will be provided over the course of the lectures.
Teaching methods
Oral lesson and laboratory
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam
Other information
The course consists of lectures and exercises, supported by weekly tutorials.
Students will prepare a scientific research project on a topic to be agreed upon with the lecturer.