28952 - Tradition and Permanence of Classics (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at offering an outline of the classical tradition by analysing the forms and the models of the reception of the Latin classics especially in modern literature.

Course contents

Aspects of the modern reception of Seneca philosophus, scientist and dramatist.

Readings/Bibliography

Seneca: lectures from Seneca. Tragedie, a c. di G. Giardina - R. Cuccioli Melloni, Torino, UTET (Classici latini), 2009 and from Seneca, Ricerche sulla natura, a c. di P. Parroni, Milano, Mondadori - Collezione Valla, 2008, pp. 8-19.
Students are required to read also: Sofocle, Seneca, Dryden e Lee, Cocteau, Edipo. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di G. Avezzù, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.

FURTHER READING:
At least one essay, from the following list: M. Bettini - G. Guidorizzi, Il mito di Edipo, Torino, Einaudi, 2004; T. Halter, Konig Oedipus. von Sophocles zu Cocteau, Stuttgart, Steiner, 1998; G. Paduano, Edipo. Storia di un mito, Roma, Carocci, 2008; L. Edmunds, Oedipus. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, London/New York: Routledge, 2006, F. Citti - C. Neri, Seneca nel Novecento. Sondaggi sulla fortuna di un 'classico', Roma, Carocci, 2001; M. Beretta - F. Citti - L. Pasetti (edd)., Seneca e le scienze naturali, Firenze, Olsckhi 2012 (Gauly, Hirai and Pellacani's essays); F. Citti - A. Iannucci (edd.), Edipo classico e contemporaneo, Hildesheim-Zurich-New York, Olms, 2012 (almost 3 essays).

Teaching methods

Lectures in class; Seminars (where individual research will be discussed and essays and tests corrected).

Assessment methods

Viva voce examination, which will test:
- knowledge of the literary history,
- ability of understanding and set the studied texts in their historical and literary environment
- main linguistics (phonetics, morphology and syntax), through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the programme.

Teaching tools

Office hours

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