98397 - Latin Languege and Literature Exercises 2 (LM)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)

Course contents

Lessons on prosody and metrics, in particular on the hexameter and the elegiac couplet. Metric reading of poetic texts which are part of the programme of "Lingua e letteratura latina 2" 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. Maria Teresa Galli.

Assessment methods

Ability to read metrically will be assessed during the exam.

Office hours

See the website of Tommaso Ricchieri