Archaeological Sciences

ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of LATIN LITERATURE, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies.

The course intends to provide a basic knowledge of Latin language (morphology and syntax);competences in translation of the examined texts from Latin; some skills in exegesis of Latin texts; knowledge of the main authors and works of Latin literature.

Deepening linguistic knowledge of Latin poetic texts in relation to the ancient rural landscape.

Students are required to have a basic knowledge of the Latin language, prosody and metrics (especially the hexameter), and a good knowledge of the general features of Roman history.

The rural Italic landscape in Augustan poetry
In addition to the analysis of the texts in the program, general outlines of the history of Latin literature will be provided, from its origins up to the second century. A.D.

Complete reading, in Italian, of Virgil's Bucolics and Georgiche; to be prepared in Latin, with metric reading, Eclogues 1; 7; 9.
Reference edition: Virgilio, Bucoliche, a cura di A. Cucchiarelli e A. Traina, Carocci, Roma 2012 (and subsequent reprints).
A. Cucchiarelli, F. Ursini, Studiare latino all'università, Roma, Carocci 2024.
Reccomended, for the ancient narrative technique, I. J. F. de Jong, I classici e la narratologia, Roma, Carocci 2017.

More bibliographical information will be provided during the course.

First semester. Traditional lectures. Lectures are recorded and later made available on classroom.

Students are strongly recommended to attend all lessons.

Oral exam at the end of the lessons, by mark expressed on a scale from a minimum of 18 (the threshold to pass the exam) to the maximum of 30 (cum laude).

Reading and linguistic analysis of a passage. One or more questions about the topics of the course.

• Course Introduction.


• Reading of the texts.


• General overview of the history of Latin literature