Study of the genres and forms that characterize Latin literature, and of their reciprocal contamination. Reading and analysis (literary, stylistic, philological, metrical) of Latin texts in the original; study of their Greek models.
Excellent knowledge of Latin. Ability to interpret Latin texts in their cultural context and in the system of literary genres that characterizes Latin literature. Ability to carry out literary, intertextual, metrical, and philological analyses.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of of Latin. Good knowledge of Latin prosody.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons.
Type of Assessment
Oral exam. Through translation and commentary of the texts included in the syllabus will be tested the language skills and the ability to interpret Latin texts in their cultural context and in the system of literary genres that characterizes Latin literature. Philological, metrical, and intertextual analyses of Horace's Odes dealt with in the lessons will be requested.
Course program
Title:
Generic Intersections in Horace's Odes
Selected Odes of Horace will be read and commented by the teacher.
The students must read and translate the remaining Odes independently.
The exam will therefore consist of questions relating to the monographic course and of questions (of a purely linguistic and metrical nature) on the text of the Odes read independently by the students.
For those who choose to take this course instead of "Latin literature 2" the syllabus will be the following:
Horace's Odes commented in class by the teacher
Virgil, Aeneid, IV
Ovid, Metamorphoses, XV
Tibullus, Elegies, I
Cicero, De natura deorum, II
Those who have not already taken the exam of "Latin literature 2" will also be asked questions about the history of Latin literature from the Flavian age to Cassiodorus (recommended handbook: G.B.Conte, Letteratura latina, Le Monnier).