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83248 - Latin Language and Literature 1 (LM)

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Luigi Pirovano
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-FIL-LET/04
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge about Latin language and literature. This goal will be reached with the help of direct analysis of texts and documents. At the end of the course, students will acquire the necessary skills to place a text into its historical and cultural context, and to interpret it with reference to material culture, mythology, and history of rituals and institutions.

Course contents

I. Special focus course: Dux Romanae pudicitiae: Lucretia, Tarquinius and the origins of Roman Republic (a detailed list of all passages examined in the lessons, and requested for the exam, will be supplied during the course and included among the online materials).

II. Latin Language: notions of phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax

III. Authors to be read in Latin: Sallustius, Bellum Iugurthinum (The War with Iugurtha), chapters 1-42, 78-79, 85-94, 98-104

N.B.

Students who do not follow the curriculum LM 39 are requested to read, instead of the book included in the special focus course, books XXVIII, XXIX, and XXX from Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Non-attending students are requested to add following article to the program: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, The Language of Latin Historiography, in: A Companion to the Latin Language, edited by James Clackson, Maiden (MA)-Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 408-425.

IV. Seminars

On-line Course: Latin Language: Basic and Intermediate 1st level (Tutor: E. Mattioni).

1° Semester: Thursday, 13.45-17.00. First lesson: 26/11/2020.

2° Semester: Tuesday and Thursday, 13.45-15.15. First lesson: 11/02/2021

Readings/Bibliography

I. Special focus course:

Text: the texts to be translated will be included among the course's materials.

Readings: A. La Penna, La letteratura latina del primo periodo augusteo (42-15 a.C.), Bari : Laterza 2013, pp. 261-411 (La storiografia); I. Donaldson, The rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations, Oxford : Clarendon press, 1982 (capitoli scelti, che saranno caricati sulla piattaforma online); L. Landolfi, Lucrezia, animi matrona virilis. Trasmutazioni di un paradigma elegiaco, in L. Landolfi (a cura di), Nunc teritur nostris area maior equis. Riflessioni sull’intertestualità ovidiana. I Fasti, Palermo 2004, pp. 81-102.

II. Core course:

I. Dionigi – E. Riganti – L. Morisi, Verba et res. Morfosintassi e lessico del latino, 2 voll., Bari, Laterza, 1999 ristampato con il titolo Il latino. Grammatica ed esercizi, Bari, Laterza, 2011; A. Traina – G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 1995, capp. I-VI

III. Authors:

Gaio Sallustio Crispo, La guerra di Giugurta, prefazione, traduzione e note di Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, Milano, BUR, 2013

Teaching methods

Classes are organized in form of lectures. During the seminars (optional), students will be required to discuss and interact, and to take part in some tests to verify their level of knowledge.

Part I of the course will be dealt with during classes; part II and III are placed under the responsibility of the students. However, part III will be the object of a special seminar to support the students.

Assessment methods

The exams consist in: a written test with multiple choices of answers, and computer assisted; an interview which will asses the students' skills in reading, translating, and interpreting the texts discussed during the course.

Students should pass the written test before the oral exam.

The final assessment will take into account the capacity of students 1) to acquire and use the basic notions of Latin language (passing grades); 2) to read, translate, and interpret texts in a correct way (positive grades); 3) to further explore the reading and the interpretation of the text in an independent fashion.

Teaching tools

Online teaching materials (e.g. slides)
Seminars (cf. course content) aimed to the introduction to the bases of the Latin language (phonetics, morphology and syntax).
Latin Video lessons, available at https://elearning-pro.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=1162

Office hours

See the website of Luigi Pirovano