humanities | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Lingua e letteratura latina (L-FIL-LET/04)
Field: Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity: Related/supplementary

48 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Learning objectives

The course aims to enable students to read Latin authors in their original language and in critical editions providing at the same time a linguistic and stylistic commentary of the texts

Prerequisites

12 CFU in the subject area of Latin Language and Litterature are required

Course unit content

Nature as mother and as stepmother: optimism and pessimism in Lucretius’ poem. Lucretius’ poem fluctuates between the optimistic faith in Epicurus’ doctrine and a pessimistic view arising from the countless forms of human suffering in the world. This can be appreciated in the fifth book, where nature appears sometimes as good mother and sometimes as cruel stepmother.

Full programme

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Bibliography

L.D. Reynolds, N.G. Wilson, Copisti e Filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall’antichità ai tempi moderni, Padova 1987

Teaching methods

Oral lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

Frontal lessons and classes.
Oral examination

LATIN PHILOLOGY cod. 1004100