36646 - Latin Language and Literature (Integrated Activity L-FIL-LET/04)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)

Course contents

Vergil. Utopia and history
Lecture of Vergil, Aeneid: Book XII.

Readings/Bibliography

Vergil, Aeneid: all selected passages are commented in A. Traina, Virgilio. L'utopia e la storia, Torino, Loescher, 1997. Italian translation, vd. e.g. Eneide, introduzione di A. La Penna, traduzione e note di R. Scarcia, Milano, Rizzoli BUR 2002; english translation: Virgil. Aeneid, transl. with notes by F. Ahl, with introduction by E. Fantham, Oxford, UP, 2007.

Latin language I. Dionigi - E. Riganti - L. Morisi, Il latino, 2 voll., Bari, Laterza 2011 is recommended; for the syntax: A. Traina, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Bologna, Cappelli, 1993. See also A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007.

Assessment methods

In a viva voce examination the students will be tested Latin phonetics, morphology and syntax through the reading and translation of the Latin texts listed in the programme.

Office hours

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