- Docente: Bruna Pieri
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Bruna Pieri (Modulo 1) Luca Graverini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the classes students have a deep knowledge of
latin literature, they are able to analyse latin texts with regard
to language, style, subject, they understand textual problems
referring to latin texts, they use the tools needed for a
philological research.
Course contents
The course is divided into 2 parts, of 6 ECTS each: the first will be held by prof. Bruna Pieri (classes start on February, 2nd) , the second one by prof. L. Graverini. Students of MD "Filologia, Letteratura e Tradizione Classica" are supposed to attend both courses.
Please, find prof. Graverini's course contents at the following link : https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/luca.graverini/didattica
What follows refers only to part 1.
A. Intacti saltus: reading Georgics 3 (lines 1-48; 209-294; 452-566)
B. selected academic papers
C. Seneca, De brevitate vitae
Students who did not attend classes are supposed to prepare the whole Book 3 of Virgil's Georgics.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Virgil. Georgics, ed. by R.F. Thomas, 2 voll, Cambridge 1988
B. a selection of two of the following articles: G.B. Conte, Introduzione a Virgilio. Georgiche, a c. di A. Barchiesi, Milano 1989, VII-XXXI; A. Traina, Amor omnibus ide. Contributi esegetici a Virgilio, georg. 3,209-283, in Id., La lyra e la libra, Bologna 2003, 39-62; B. Pieri, L'epica in fieri e due esegesi vulgate, in Ead. Intacti saltus. Studi sul III libro delle Georgiche, Bologna 2011 31-53; B. Pieri, Stimuli amoris: le metafore virgiliane dell'eros animale (e la lezione di Lucrezio), ibid., 87-125; B. Pieri, Intacti saltus. Virgilio e la bucolica didascalica, ibid. 127-165
C. Seneca, La brevità della vita, a cura di A. Traina, Milano, BUR, 2015.
Language: I. Dionigi - E. Riganti - L. Morisi, Il latino, Bari, Laterza 2011 is recommended. As for the syntax: A. Traina, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Bologna, Cappelli, 1993. As an alternative, Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar, Ginn & Company, Boston-NY-Chicago, 1903 (both for syntax and morphology). See also A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007
Teaching methods
As for A. section, lectures in class; students are supposed to prepare parts B. and C. by themselves.
Assessment methods
In a viva voce examination, the students will be tested through the reading and translation of the Latin texts dealt with in class (A) and listed in the programme (C) and through questions on choosed readings.
assessment guidelines:
failing grades: lack of basic linguistic knowledge and inability to produce a correct translation and interpretation of the text.
passing grades: language proficiency at an intermediate level; translation and literary interpretation of the texts mostly correct, but inaccurate and lacking autonomy
excellent grades: language proficiency at an upper-mid level; translation and interpretation of the texts not only correct, but performed with autonomy and precision. Knowledge of Latin prosody and metrics.
Erasmus or foreigner students are allowed to attend the exam - as far as translation from Latin is concerned - in English, French, German or Spanish.
Teaching tools
on line teaching material (e.g. slides) on teacher website
Office hours
See the website of Bruna Pieri
See the website of Luca Graverini