98397 - Latin Languege and Literature Exercises 2 (LM)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 6726)

Course contents

The course consists of: lessons on prosody and metrics and on the metric reading of the hexameter and the elegiac couplet; practical exercises on the metric reading of poetic texts which are part of the programme of "Lingua e letteratura latina 2"; reading of Aeneid book 2 which is part of the programme of the main course.

Readings/Bibliography

The reference manual is A. Traina – G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007 (chapter VII); also recommended S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Roma, Carocci, 1998.

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercising by a tutor, dr. Alessandro Mingozzi.

Assessment methods

Ability to read metrically and knowledge of Aeneid book 2 will be assessed during the exam.

Teaching tools

Materials provided by the teacher; slides on Virtuale; didactic materials on Aeneid book 2 provided by the teacher.

Office hours

See the website of Tommaso Ricchieri