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LATIN LITERATURE

CODE 64883
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 9 cfu during the 1st year of 8457 LETTERE (L-10) - GENOVA
  • 9 cfu during the 3nd year of 8457 LETTERE (L-10) - GENOVA
  • 9 cfu during the 2nd year of 8455 FILOSOFIA (L-5) - GENOVA
  • 9 cfu during the 2nd year of 9917 SCIENZE STORICHE (LM-84) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/04
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 1° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    The course intends to introduce  students to an in-depth analysis at university level of history, themes and texts of Latin literature.

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The Latin literature course (I year) aims to give students a good knowledge of the history of Latin literature from the archaic period to the 5th century AD by directly reading texts; knowledge of the themes of Latin literature and of the fundamental range of literary genres with their formal characteristics and content, together with the capacity to move between genres applying suitable interpretation techniques; the capacity to identify the elements of continuity and innovation in Roman literature with respect to the great Greek experience that preceded it; the capacity to analyse texts in the language proposed during the course and, in general, any text in Latin, and the practical knowledge of metrics.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The Latin literature course (I year) has the following objectives:

    • to give students a good knowledge of the history of Latin literature in its diachronic evolution from the archaic period to the 5th century AD by directly reading texts;
    • to give students knowledge of the themes of Latin literature and the fundamental range of literary genres with their formal characteristics and content; capacity to move between genres applying suitable interpretation techniques;
    • to give students knowledge and understanding of the evolution of the Latin language over about eight centuries of history (with particular attention to the awareness of various registers and levels of the language, the selection of which is tied naturally to the literary genre);
    • to give students the capacity to identify elements of continuity and innovation in Latin literature with respect to the great Greek experience that preceded it;
    • to give students understanding of and capacity to analyse the texts proposed during the course and, in general, any text in Latin;
    • mastery of Latin reading and consequently excellent knowledge of prosody and metrics.

    To this end a large selection of texts in Latin will be commented. Various other texts will be added which must be read by students. A part of the course will be devoted to the fundamental notions of prosody and metric (hexameter and pentameter) and to practical exercises of metric reading.

    PREREQUISITES

    A solid knowledge of the Latin language is required and, for those students who have not already taken the test in the Access test, as is the case for classicists, it is required to pass a Preliminary written Translation Test from the Latin (information on this should be requested to Prof. Lara Nicolini, who is in charge of the test).

    Please note that to facilitate the preparation of solid grammatical bases and for the preparation of the Preliminary written Translation Test, first and second semester Latin lessons for beginners, intermediate Latin lessons and advanced Latin lessons, open to all students, are activated (see more details in the field FURTHER INFORMATION).

    TEACHING METHODS

    The course will alternate lectures and practical metric reading exercises.

    Lessons will take place in person. Attendance, although not compulsory, is highly recommended.

    Only those who attend lessons in presence will be deemed attending students.

    The teacher, upon specific  e-mail request by single students, could allow them to attend lessons remotely and to access the recordings of the lessons via Teams.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    The ninth book of Apuleius's Metamorphoses: the stories of adultery

    Among the numerous stories included in the main plot of the adventures of Lucius transformed into a donkey, the adultery stories of the ninth book of the Metamorphoses (captured by Lucius' long ears, the very symbol of his auditory curiosity) represent a unitary cycle of extraordinary significance and importance. . The cycle, which begins with a lepid and lively tale, gradually turns towards increasingly dark tones, in an implicit condemnation of the sensual pleasure that will lead the protagonist to the final conversion to the cult of Isis and to the return to human form. The novellas of the ninth book thus constitute a real novelistic model, and will in fact be reworked by Boccaccio in the Decameron, constituting an inescapable paradigm for the history of Italian and European short stories.

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    9 credit program:

    Monographic course:

    1) Apuleio, Le Metamorfosi, a cura di Lara Nicolini, BUR 2005 (in originale latino solo il l. IX, in italiano lettura di tutto il romanzo); 

    Non attending students will add: Apuleio, Le novelle dell’adulterio (Metamorfosi, IX), a cura di Silvia Mattiacci, Firenze 1996;

    Supplementary texts (individual preparation by the students):

    2) Seneca, Medea (Seneca, Medea. Fedra, a cura di Alfonso Traina e Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, BUR, Milano 1989).

    3) Cicerone, De divinatione, libro I (Cicerone, Della divinazione, a cura di Sebastiano Timpanaro, Garzanti 1988, with the important commentary notes).

    4) Ovidio, Heroides 4 (Fedra a Ippolito); 12 (Medea a Giàsone): (Ovidio, Lettere di eroine, a cura di Gianpiero Rosati, BUR, Milano 1989).

    5)  History of Latin Literature: from the origins to the Vth century AD

    It is recommended a good literary history manual for the Liceo classico, for example  G.B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura Latina, Le Monnier, Firenze 2019 (or, especially for those who had not already studied in high school the history of Latin literature, it is recommended the literary history with an anthology of texts Storia e testi della Letteratura Latina, edited by G. B. Conte and E. Pianezzola, ed. Le Monnier).

    6) For essential knowledge in the field of grammar, syntax and metrics, you should use:

    A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino Universitario, Bologna, Pàtron 1988.

    The chapter of this volume relating to metrics can be usefully integrated or replaced with the chapter (about twenty pages) by Sebastiano Timpanaro, Introduction to Latin prosody and metrics, which will be uploaded by the teacher on Aulaweb and then made available to students.

     

    6 credit program:

    Monographic course:

    1) Apuleio, Le Metamorfosi, a cura di Lara Nicolini, BUR 2005 (in originale latino solo il l. IX, in italiano lettura di tutto il romanzo); 

    Non attending students will add: Apuleio, Le novelle dell’adulterio (Metamorfosi, IX), a cura di Silvia Mattiacci, Firenze 1996;

    Supplementary texts (individual preparation by the students):

    2) Seneca, Medea (Seneca, Medea. Fedra, a cura di Alfonso Traina e Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, BUR, Milano 1989).

    3) Cicerone, De divinatione, libro I (Cicerone, Della divinazione, a cura di Sebastiano Timpanaro, Garzanti 1988, con le importanti note di commento).

    4)  History of Latin Literature: from the origins to the Vth century AD

    It is recommended a good literary history manual for the Liceo classico, for example G.B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura Latina, Le Monnier, Firenze 2019 (or, especially for those who had not already studied in high school the history of Latin literature, it is recommended the literary history with an anthology of texts Storia e testi della Letteratura Latina, edited by G. B. Conte and E. Pianezzola, ed. Le Monnier) .

    5) For essential knowledge in the field of grammar, syntax and metrics, you should use:

    A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino Universitario, Bologna, Pàtron 1988.

    The chapter of this volume relating to metrics can be usefully integrated or replaced with the chapter (about twenty pages) by Sebastiano Timpanaro, Introduction to Latin prosody and metrics, which will be uploaded by the teacher on Aulaweb and then made available to students.

     

    3 credit program:

    Monographic course:

    1) Apuleio, Le Metamorfosi, a cura di Lara Nicolini, BUR 2005 (in originale latino solo il l. IX, in italiano lettura di tutto il romanzo); 

    Non attending students will add: Apuleio, Le novelle dell’adulterio (Metamorfosi, IX), a cura di Silvia Mattiacci, Firenze 1996;

    2)  History of Latin Literature: from the origins to the Vth century AD

    It is recommended a good literary history manual for the Liceo classico, for example  G.B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura Latina, Le Monnier, Firenze 2019 (or, especially for those who had not already studied in high school the history of Latin literature, it is recommended the literary history with an anthology of texts Storia e testi della Letteratura Latina, edited by G. B. Conte and E. Pianezzola, ed. Le Monnier).

    3) For essential knowledge in the field of grammar, syntax and metrics, you should use:

    A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino Universitario, Bologna, Pàtron 1988.

    The chapter of this volume relating to metrics can be usefully integrated or replaced with the chapter (about twenty pages) by Sebastiano Timpanaro, Introduction to Latin prosody and metrics, which will be uploaded by the teacher on Aulaweb and then made available to students.

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    GABRIELLA MORETTI (President)

    DILETTA VIGNOLA

    ALICE BONANDINI (Substitute)

    LISA LONGONI (Substitute)

    LARA NICOLINI (Substitute)

    BIAGIO SANTORELLI (Substitute)

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    Monday 3 october 2022

    Class schedule

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam consists of an oral test.

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    The exam consists of an oral test: various questions on the different phases of the history of Latin Literature will be followed by an interview on the monographic course. The candidate will also be required to read and translate some passages from the texts in the program and to demonstrate mastery in the grammatical, linguistic and stylistic analysis of the passages in question.

    The vote will be expressed in THIRTIES. The final grade will be determined by an average (subject to increase at the discretion of the teacher) obtained from the sum of the following factors:

    -quality of exposure and ability to use an adequate Italian form (attention: sloppy or incorrect exposure can invalidate the entire exam): 4/30;

    - historical-literary knowledge (eg dates, contextualization on a timeline, names of characters, knowledge of works and number of books): 8/30;

    - reasoning skills, logical connections and use of the specialist vocabulary 4/30;

    - reading, analysis and comprehension of the texts 14/30.

    Note: During the course an active class attendance will contribute to the evaluation.

     

    In order to allow an easier preparation and an in-depth study of the texts, the exam, if the student wishes, can be divided into two parts:

    - 9 credit exam:

    FIRST PART: points 1 (monographic course), 5 (Literary History) and 6 (Propaedeutic to University Latin );

    SECOND PART: points 2, 3 and 4 (complementary texts).

     

    - 6 credit exam:

    FIRST PART: points 1 (monographic course) and 3 (Literary History); and 5 (Propaedeutic to University Latin );

    SECOND PART: point 2 and 3 (complementary texts).

     

    - 3 credit exam:

    FIRST PART: point 2 (Literary History) and 3 (Propaedeutic to University Latin );

    SECOND PART: point 1 (Monographic course)

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    14/12/2022 10:30 GENOVA Orale Solo per gli studenti di anni accademici precedenti all'attuale
    19/01/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale
    06/02/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale
    08/05/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale Appello riservato ai Laureandi
    10/05/2023 12:00 GENOVA Compitino
    22/05/2023 14:00 GENOVA Orale
    05/06/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale
    19/06/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale
    05/07/2023 08:00 GENOVA Compitino
    14/09/2023 10:30 GENOVA Orale
    14/09/2023 14:00 GENOVA Compitino

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    The course, held in the first semester of the academic year 2022/23,  will be held in presence.

    For students with linguistic problems, the following will be activated:

    1) a 60-hour basic Latin Lectorate for absolute beginners, held in the first semester by Prof. Maria Rosaria Di Garbo (organized by the Cultural Heritage Course, but open and highly recommended also for students of all Degree Courses) , to be integrated with the help of language tutors for practical exercises and their correction.

    2) a 36-hour intermediate Latin Lectorate (syntax), held in the second semester by Prof. Maria Rosaria Di Garbo, to be integrated with the help of language tutors for practical exercises and their correction.

    3) a 30-hour translation Workshop held in the first semester by prof. Alice Bonandini, compulsory for classicists who had not passed the entrance test consisting of a version from Latin (but VERY HIGHLY recommended to ALL classicists), and also open to all interested modernists, in particular to pass the preliminary test of Translation from Latin .

    All students are required to register for Aulaweb and Teams in time for the start of the course.