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83249 - Latin Language and Literature 2 (LM)

Academic Year 2018/2019

                
                        Docente:
                        Iolanda Ventura
                    
                        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

At the end of the course, students will acquire the skills required to understand patterns and forms of reception of classical culture from the Antiquity to the 20th century.

Course contents

A text and its commentary: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, and Macrobius, Commentum super somnium Scipionis.

Authors: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, in: Marco Tullio Cicerone, Il sogno di Scipione, a cura di Giuseppe Solaro, Palermo 2008 (or other editions including both Latin text and translation); Macrobio, Commento al sogno di Scipione, ed. e trad. Moreno Neri, saggio introduttivo di Ilaria Ramelli, Milano, Bompiani, 2007.

Students belonging to studies programs other than LM 39 are requested to work on a different program. Otherwise, they will not be admitted to the exams.

They integrate the program with: -Virgilio, Georgicorum libri, libro I, in: Virgilio, Georgiche, a cura di Luca Canali, Milano 2012 (or other editions including both Latin text and translation).

Readings/Bibliography

Texts:

- Cicerone, Somnium Scipionis, in: Marco Tullio Cicerone, Il sogno di Scipione, a cura di Giuseppe Solaro, Palermo 2008 (o edizioni equivalenti con testo latino a fronte); Macrobio, Commento al sogno di Scipione, ed. e trad. Moreno Neri, saggio introduttivo di Ilaria Ramelli, Milano, Bompiani, 2007.

Students who do not belong to LM 39 will read:

-Virgilio, Georgicorum libri, libro I, in: Virgilio, Georgiche, a cura di Luca Canali, Milano 2012 (o edizioni equivalenti con testo latino a fronte).

Readings: R. Caldini Montanari, Tradizione medievale ed edizione critica del Somnium Scipionis, Firenze, SISMEL, 2002; Nicolas Lévi, La *révélation finale à Rome : Cicéron, Ovide, Apulée : étude sur le "Songe de Scipion" (De republica 6.), le discours de Pythagore (Métamorphoses, 15.) et la théophanie d'Isis (Métamorphoses, 11.), Paris, PUPS, 2014.

Further readings will be shown during the course and put at disposal on the platform materiali didattici online.

Teaching methods

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

Assessment methods

The exams consist in an interview. Students should be able to demonstrate their skills in reading, translating, and interpreting the texts, in placing authors and texts, in their historical context, and in assessing their contribution within the history of scientific language and literature of the Antiquity.

Teaching tools

Studies will be made available on the platform materiali didattici online.

Office hours

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