13275 - Latin Language (1) (A-G)

Learning outcomes

Skills to be obtained at the end of the course:
1. the ability to translate the texts in Latin listed in the programme;
2. knowledge of phonetics, morphology and basic syntax; 
3. the ablity of carrying out a literary analysis of the studied texts (both in Latin and in Italian)

Course contents

I. SPECIAL FOCUS COURSE
Latin poetic language: lectures from Vergil, Aeneid, book I, vv. 1-33; book XII, vv. 1-80; 697-952.

II. CORE COURSE
Latin Language: phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax.

III. AUTHORS
Plautus: lectures from Amphitruo (argumentum I-II, vv. 1-261, 403-462, 499-550, 882-945,  1035-1052). 
Seneca: On Providence. 

IV. CRITICAL ESSAYS
Introduction to the Language of Latin poetry (vd. Bibliografia). 

SEMINARS

I semester

Beginners: students A-G: Thursday-Friday 11-13 (Aula II, via Zamboni 38) inizio 9.10.2014; students H-Z: Mon- Tuesday 9-11 (Aula B, via Zamboni 34): from 6.10.2014

II semester

1. Intermediate 1st level  (morphology and elementary syntax) – A. Bertocchi (students A-L): III periodo mar 12-13 aula Pascoli, IV periodo mar 14-15 aula I; (students M-Z): III periodo lun 15-16 aula Pascoli, IV periodo gio 12-13 aula Forti.

2. Intermediate 2nd level  (translation and syntax) – C. Valenzano  (students A-L): III-IV periodo gio 9-11 aula I; (students M-Z): III-IV periodo ven 9-11 aula I.

3. Lectures from Plautus, Amphitruo: C. Pavone (students A-L): III periodo mer 11-13 aula B (Zamboni 34), IV periodo mer 13-15 aula II; O. Fuà (students M-Z) III-IV periodo ven 11-13 aula Pascoli.

4. Lectures from Seneca, De providentia:  E. Dalchiele (students A-L): III periodo gio 13-15 aula Tibiletti (Zamboni 38);  (students M-Z) III periodo gio 11-13 aula Pascoli.

WRITTEN TEST
The written test (a translation from latin into italian) is compulsory and must be overcome before the viva voice esam of Lingua Latina. The written test can be done only twice; a negative mark does not prevent from accessing to the viva voice examination.

Readings/Bibliography

I. SPECIAL FOCUS COURSE
Texts: Virgilio, Eneide, testo latino a fronte, introduzione e traduzione di E. Oddone, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2008; oppure Virgilio, Eneide, testo latino a fronte, traduzione di R. Calzecchi Onesti, Torino, Einaudi, 2005, or A. Traina,Virgilio. L'utopia e la storia, Torino, Loescher, 1997, or Virgil, Aeneid Book XII, ed. by R.Tarrant, Cambridge, UP, 2012.
Readings: almost 1 essay from the following list: A. Barchiesi, La morte di Turno, in La traccia del modello, Pisa, Giardini, 1984, 91-122; V. Di Benedetto, La consapevolezza di morte in Turno, "Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica" 123, 1995, 45-72 (rist. in Il richiamo del testo, Pisa, ETS, 2007, 1779-1803; R. Tarrant,  The Last Book of the Aeneid, "Syllecta Classica" 15, 2004, 103-29; A. Traina, Il libro XII dell'Eneide, in Poeti latini e neolatini IV, Bologna, Patron, 1994, 75-95 (rist. in Virgilio. L'utopia e la storia, 207-216); A. Traina, Turno. Costruzione di un personaggio, in Poeti latini e neolatini V, Bologna, Patron 1998, 91-120.

II. CORE COURSE
I. Dionigi – E. Riganti – L. Morisi, Il latino, Bari, Laterza 2011, or Verba et res. Morfosintassi e lessico del latino, 2 voll., Bari, Laterza, 1999; A. Traina – G. Bernardi Perini,Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 1995, capp. I-VI (on peculiar topics of phonetics, morphology, syntax).  As an alternative, Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar, Ginn & Company, Boston-NY-Chicago, 1903 (both for syntax and morphology).

III. AUTHORS
Plautus: selected lectures from Tito Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, introduzione, testo, traduzione a cura di A. Traina, Bologna, Patron, 2012, or Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. by D.Christenson, Cambridge, UP, 2000.
Seneca: La provvidenza, a cura di A. Traina, Milano, BUR, 1997 (rist.), or On providence, in J.W.Basore (ed.), Seneca. Moral Essays, vol. I, London-Cambridge, Heinemann-Putnam, 1928, also available online.

IV. CRITICAL ESSAYS
Almost two essays from H.H. Janssen - W. Kroll - M. Leumann, La lingua poetica latina, a cura di A. Lunelli, Bologna, Pàtron 2011 (4a ed.), or R.G.G. Coleman, Poetic Diction, Poetic Discourse and the Poetic Register, and H.D.Jocelyn, The Arrangement and the Language of Catullus' so-called polymetra with Special Reference to the Sequence 10-11-12, in Aspects of the language of Latin poetry, ed. by J.N.Adams - R.G.Mayer, Oxford, UP, 1999.

Teaching methods

Lectures in class;
Seminars (where individual research will be discussed and essays and tests corrected).

Assessment methods

In a viva voce examination the students will be tested Latin phonetics, morphology and syntax trough the reading and translation of the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the programme. Students must also take the  written Latin Examination.

Teaching tools

In addition to Lectures in class (II semester) and Seminars (where individual work will be discussed and essays and exercises corrected): 

1. Online teaching materials: (see webpage above); handouts with the same content will be distributed in class
2. Seminars (cf. course content) devoted to the introduction to the bases of the Latin language (phonetics, morphology and syntax)

Office hours

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