Learning objectives
Inquiry on the Humanistic Catullian Philology. Acquire the methodological, literary and linguistic skills required for independent research work on the argument of the course.
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
Latin literature: The Catullus' Liber and the Humanistic Philology.
Stylistic Latin studies: 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
Selected bibliography.
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.
Readings and texts will be provided over the
Teaching methods
Oral lesson and seminarial works.
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.
