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 Catullus, Epigrams (cc. 69-116).

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

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

IV. CRITICAL ESSAYS
Introduction to the Language of Latin poetry (see Bibliography). 

SEMINARS

I semester: 
Beginners: students A-G: Thursday-Friday 11-13 (Aula C, via Centotrecento) from 8.10.2014; students H-Z: Mon 17-19 - Tuesday 9-11 (Aula B, via Zamboni 34): from 5.10.2014

II semester (starting from 8.2.2016)
1. Intermediate 1st level  (morphology and elementary syntax) – A. Bertocchi (students A-G): tuesday 17-19 aula Pascoli (students H-Z): wednesday 17-19 aula VI (Zamboni 38).
2. Intermediate 2nd level  (translation and syntax) – C. Valenzano  (students A-G): friday 9-11 aula Pascoli; (students H-Z): thursday 9-11 aula Pascoli.
3. Lectures from Plautus, Amphitryon - O. Fuà (students A-G) tuesday 11-13 aula Pascoli; (students H-Z) thursday 17-19 aula VI (via Zamboni 38).
4. Lectures from Seneca, De providentia:  E. Dalchiele (students A-G): monday 11-13 aula Pascoli; (students H-Z): monday 17-19 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: Catullo, I Canti, a c. di A. Traina - E. Mandruzzato, Milano, Rizzoli BUR 1982 (rist.), or Catullo, Le poesie, a c. di M. Ramous, Milano 2004, or Catullus, the poems, by F. Cornish, Cambridge, UP, 1914, also online.
Readings: almost 1 essay from the following list: F. Bellandi, Catullo e la morte: i carmi 101 e 96, in Lepos e pathos. Studi su Catullo, Bologna, Patron, 2007, pp. 271-384; G. Biondi, Il carme 101 di Catullo, "Lingua e Stile" 11, 1976, 409-25 (eng. transl. in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Catullus, Oxford, OUP, 2007, 177-197); A. Morelli, Hellenistic Epigram in the Roman World: From the Beginnings to the End of the Republican Age, in Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2007, 521-542; A. Traina, La poesia degli affetti, oppure Strutture catulliane: il c. 52, oppureCompresenze strutturali nei carmi di Catullo, oppure Catullo e gli dei, in A. Traina, Studi catulliani, Cesena, Stilgraf, 2015.

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 T. Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, Bacchidi, Menecmi, testo originale a fronte. Introduzione e note di M. Rubino. Con un saggio di V. Faggi. Traduzione di V. Faggi, Milano, Garzanti, 2004, or Plautus, ed. transl. by W. De Melo, (Loeb Classical Library), voll. I-II, Cambridge Mass-London 2011.
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

See the website of Francesco Citti