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Professor
Academic discipline: Lingua e letteratura latina (L-FIL-LET/04)
Field: Lingue e letterature classiche
Type of training activity: Characterising

40 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Integrated course unit module: LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (INTEGRATED)

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.

LATIN STYLISTICS cod. 1004099