LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: ELENA SPANGENBERG YANES
Objectives
The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the Discipline; it proposes geographical areas and sectorial perspectives in which related projects are activated; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical epochs and cultural contexts.
Learning outcomes
Good knowledge of Latin literary history from its origins to the end of the 2nd century AD; advanced knowledge of the Latin language; ability to read, translate and interpret a Latin text from a linguistic, literary and philological point of view.
Prerequisites
Good command of Latin morphology and syntax; metrical reading of the Latin hexameter.
Programme
Reading, translation, and linguistic and philological analysis of Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, book 10; study of the history of Latin literature from the beginnings to the end of 2nd century AD (last authors to be studied: Fronto, Gellius, Apuleius).
Books
LATIN TEXTS
1) M. Winterbottom (ed.), M. Fabi Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim, II: Libri VII - XII, Oxonii, Clarendon Press, 1970 (book 10)
TRANSLATIONS
2) C. M. Calcante (a c. di), Quintiliano. La formazione dell'oratore, III: Libri IX-XII, Milano, BUR, 1997
HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE
3) G. B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Firenze, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2019 (2° ed.)
SECONDARY LITERATURE
4) M. Winterbottom, Quintilian. Institutio oratoria, in L. D. Reynolds, Texts and Transmission, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 332-334
5) G. F. Gianotti, I testi nella scuola, in G. Cavallo - P. Fedeli - A. Giardina (dir.), Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica, II: La circolazione del testo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 1989, pp. 421-466
6) M. Citroni, Finalità e struttura della rassegna degli scrittori greci e latini in Quintiliano, in F. Gasti - G. Mazzoli (a c. di), Modelli letterari e ideologia nell'età flavia. Atti della III Giornata Ghisleriana di Filologia Classica (Pavia, 30 - 31 ottobre 2003), Como, Ibis, 2003, pp. 15-38
Bibliography
LATIN TEXTS
1) M. Winterbottom (ed.), M. Fabi Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim, II: Libri VII - XII, Oxonii, Clarendon Press, 1970 (book 10)
TRANSLATIONS
2) C. M. Calcante (a c. di), Quintiliano. La formazione dell'oratore, III: Libri IX-XII, Milano, BUR, 1997
HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE
3) G. B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina. Dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Firenze, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2019 (2° ed.)
SECONDARY LITERATURE
4) M. Winterbottom, Quintilian. Institutio oratoria, in L. D. Reynolds, Texts and Transmission, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 332-334
5) G. F. Gianotti, I testi nella scuola, in G. Cavallo - P. Fedeli - A. Giardina (dir.), Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica, II: La circolazione del testo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 1989, pp. 421-466
6) M. Citroni, Finalità e struttura della rassegna degli scrittori greci e latini in Quintiliano, in F. Gasti - G. Mazzoli (a c. di), Modelli letterari e ideologia nell'età flavia. Atti della III Giornata Ghisleriana di Filologia Classica (Pavia, 30 - 31 ottobre 2003), Como, Ibis, 2003, pp. 15-38
Lessons mode
Lectures in presence.
Frequency
Attendance of the lectures in facultative.
Exam mode
Oral exams consist of:
- reading, translation, and analysis of one or more passages of the Latin texts included in the programme;
- questions about Latin morphology and syntax;
- questions about the history of the Latin literature.
Metrical reading is required for poems.
Example exam questions
– Translation and analysis of Quint. 10, 1, 1
– Varro’s life and works
Arguments
- Introduction to the course
- Unit 2 (lessons 2-19): readings from Quint. inst. 10 (translation and commentary)
- Unit 2 (lessons 20-21): introduction to the Thesaurus linguae Latinae
Sustainability goals
- Academic year2026/2027
- Degree program to which the course belongsHistory, Anthropology, Religions
- Lesson code1035941
- Year and semester3rd year - 1st semester
- Activity typeAttività formative affini ed integrative
- Academic areaAttività formative affini o integrative
- SSDL-FIL-LET/04
- Mandatory presenceNo
- Languageita
- CFU6 CFU
- Total duration42 hours
- Hours distribution42 classroom hours