- Docente: Bruna Pieri
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World (cod. 0965)
Learning outcomes
At the end of classes the student will know the main periods in the evolution of Latin, and some links with the other languages of ancient Italy, (e.g. Greek, Etruscan, Umbrian).
Course contents
I. Building a language for didactic poetry: Virgil's
Georgics on love and desease
II. History of Latin language, with some specific focuses
III. Apuleius, Metamorphoses, book IX
Readings/Bibliography
I. Virgilio, Georgiche, a c. di A. BArchiesi, intr. di G.B.
Conte, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 1980 (più volte ristampate)
II. The study of L.R. Palmer, The Latin language,
London, Faber and Faber, 1961 is compulsory . The
reading F.Stolz-A.Debrunner-P.Schmid, Storia della lingua latina,
Pàtron, Bologna ,IV ed., 1993 is also recommended.
III. Apuleio, Le novelle dell'adulterio (Metamorfosi
IX), a c. di Silvia Mattiacci; oppure Apuleio, Le
metamorfosi, a c. di Lara NIcolini, Milano, BUR, 2005
Teaching methods
Lections in class.
Assessment methods
Viva voce examination, which will test:
- the ability of translating the studied texts .
- the main linguistic aspects (phonetics, morphology and
syntax), from an historical point of view, trough reading and
translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in
the program.
Teaching tools
Office hours
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