Latin Literature Ma
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to perfect the technique of reading and commenting on Latin texts, by means of a reflection on the methods and tools, especially digital, available for the purpose. The final objective is to recognise the different types of texts and to grasp the fundamental meaning and the main points of articulation of a series of them (Level C of the Latin Language Certificate).
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge
At the end of the course, students will be able to read and understand any Latin text of a literary nature, highlighting its critical and content issues.
Skills
Through the digital message board and the classroom debates, students are asked to demonstrate the necessary technical skills for the critical elaboration of a short comment (written or oral) to a proposed text, with the attention to the elements today indispensable for any type of profession having to do with a literary environment.
At the end of the course, students will be able to read and understand any Latin text of a literary nature, highlighting its critical and content issues.
Skills
Through the digital message board and the classroom debates, students are asked to demonstrate the necessary technical skills for the critical elaboration of a short comment (written or oral) to a proposed text, with the attention to the elements today indispensable for any type of profession having to do with a literary environment.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
"They All Laughed"
Lectures will focus on the mechanisms of comedy found in some Latin texts, representative of different literary genres (Part A = 40 hours). The texts analysed in part B will be used in preparation for the elaboration of a commentary on any Latin text. Part C (reserved for modernists, but also open to classicists, see below) will deal with Latin texts outside the Classical Age.
Lectures will focus on the mechanisms of comedy found in some Latin texts, representative of different literary genres (Part A = 40 hours). The texts analysed in part B will be used in preparation for the elaboration of a commentary on any Latin text. Part C (reserved for modernists, but also open to classicists, see below) will deal with Latin texts outside the Classical Age.
Prerequisites for admission
A good knowledge of Latin is required (at least 9 or more ECTS; the course is compulsory for students who have already acquired 9 or more than 9 ECTS and wish to acquire more). To take the oral examination, it is needed to pass a preliminary written test, MA level.
Teaching methods
Lectures; online interactive exercises; home working; classroom exercises. Attendance is strongly recommended.
Teaching Resources
The course texts and the secondary bibliography will be made available on the Ariel website.
Home readings:
For Modern Literature students:
(a) Ovid, any book of the Amores (6 ECTS);
b) Ovid, any book of the Amores + Horace, Odes, Book I, or, at the student's choice, Horace, Satires, Book I (9 ECTS);
c) Ovid, any book of the Amores + Horace, Odes, Book I, or, at the student's choice, Satires, Book I + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (12 ECTS).
For students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity:
(a) Ovid, any book of the Amores (6 ECTS);
b) the anthology of texts read in part C of the course, or, at the student's choice, Ovid, any book of the Amores + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (9 ECTS);
c) the anthology of texts read in part C of the course, or, at the student's choice, Ovid, any book of the Amores + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis + a text chosen by the student, in agreement with the Professor (12 ECTS).
Home readings:
For Modern Literature students:
(a) Ovid, any book of the Amores (6 ECTS);
b) Ovid, any book of the Amores + Horace, Odes, Book I, or, at the student's choice, Horace, Satires, Book I (9 ECTS);
c) Ovid, any book of the Amores + Horace, Odes, Book I, or, at the student's choice, Satires, Book I + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (12 ECTS).
For students of Philology, Literature and History of Antiquity:
(a) Ovid, any book of the Amores (6 ECTS);
b) the anthology of texts read in part C of the course, or, at the student's choice, Ovid, any book of the Amores + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (9 ECTS);
c) the anthology of texts read in part C of the course, or, at the student's choice, Ovid, any book of the Amores + Seneca, Apocolocyntosis + a text chosen by the student, in agreement with the Professor (12 ECTS).
Assessment methods and Criteria
A preliminary computer-based language test is aimed to assess the ability to understand complex Latin texts (B2 certification level). The test is mandatory and must be passed to access the oral examination; the same test is valid for all Latin exams (MA level). The test does not give a grade, but only the admission to the oral examination(s). A few tests assigned in recent years are available online. In particular, will be evalueted: correctness in interpreting the text; ability to understand the pivot points through answers to both open and closed questions.
The oral part of the examination will verify:
- the ability to understand and present a range of texts studied at home by students (see below);
- the ability to critically discuss the texts read in class;
- the ability to understand and discuss a series of short texts proposed by the commission (this part may be replaced by active participation in forum activities and in-class exercises, part B).
It is possible to speak in Italian, English or Latin; the passing mark is 18/30, the top mark is 30/30 (cum laude).
Emphasis will be placed on the ability to present the texts; the correctness in analysing and critically discussing the content of the texts read in class and at home; the appropriateness of the critical vocabulary; the ability to raise and solve critical problems.
Non-attending students should refer to the material (bibliography, threads, recordings etc.) made available online.
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to contact the teacher.
Procedures for students with disabilities and/or SLDs must be agreed with the teacher, in accordance with the Faculty.
The oral part of the examination will verify:
- the ability to understand and present a range of texts studied at home by students (see below);
- the ability to critically discuss the texts read in class;
- the ability to understand and discuss a series of short texts proposed by the commission (this part may be replaced by active participation in forum activities and in-class exercises, part B).
It is possible to speak in Italian, English or Latin; the passing mark is 18/30, the top mark is 30/30 (cum laude).
Emphasis will be placed on the ability to present the texts; the correctness in analysing and critically discussing the content of the texts read in class and at home; the appropriateness of the critical vocabulary; the ability to raise and solve critical problems.
Non-attending students should refer to the material (bibliography, threads, recordings etc.) made available online.
International or Erasmus incoming students are invited to contact the teacher.
Procedures for students with disabilities and/or SLDs must be agreed with the teacher, in accordance with the Faculty.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/04 - LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/04 - LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/04 - LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
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