29424 - Seminars (1) (LM) (G.D)

Learning outcomes

The Seminars on Latin and the Modern World are meant to address issues at the crossroad of different disciplines. This course seeks to provide the critical skills to analyse Classical Reception. Particular themes that will be explored include: Latin as the language of modern Europe and the reception of works of latin literature in modern European literatures, in visual and performative arts.

Course contents

Seminars and conferences will address the role of Latin as the ‘language of Europe’ from Humanism to modern science and the present day. Specific examples of Reception (in literature, drama and visual arts) will then be analysed (e.g. Apuleius, Ovid, Seneca, Virgil).

Readings/Bibliography

Latin texts and translations will be handed out in class and then online.

I. Dionigi, Il presente non basta, Milano, Mondadori, 2016; A. Ziosi, Didone regina di Cartagine di Christopher Marlowe. Metamorfosi virgiliane nel Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

Students are required to read at least two chapters from two of the following volumes: I. Dionigi (ed.), Di fronte ai classici : a colloquio con i greci e i latini, Milano, BUR 2002; L. Hardwick - C. Stray (eds.), A Companion to Classical Receptions, Oxford: Blackwell 2008; C. Walde - B. Egger, Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 5 : The Reception of Classical Literature, Leiden 2012. Further readings will be handed out and suggested in class.

Teaching methods

The seminar is organised as a series of workshops, with the participation of others teachers

under the coordination of prof. Dionigi. Lectures and seminars will be supplemented by moments

cooperative and individual work. Attendance is compulsory.

Assessment methods

Attendance and participation in the seminars constitute a preliminary way of assessment. In a viva voce examination students will then be required to discuss and critically analyse topics and texts introduced during the lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Ivano Dionigi