Learning objectives
<br />GOALS: <br />Basic knowledge of the history of Latin literature with in-depth study of a given topic or writer through the reading of translated texts.
Prerequisites
<br />PREREQUISITES: No prerequisites.
Course unit content
<br /><br />CONTENTS: <br />Specialised course:<br />Love and society in the Rome of Augustus<br /><br /><br />Augustus, Monumentum Ancyranum, chapt. 1-2-3-4-5-7-8-10-11-12-13-14-1520-22-23-31-32-33-34-35 (fhotocopies).<br /><br />Verg. georg. 3, 1-48 (photocopy).<br /><br />Verg. Aen. 6, 440-476; 6, 677-900.<br /><br />Verg. Aen. 4, 1-400; 607-705.<br /><br />Tib. 1, 1 (photocopy).<br /><br />Ov. am. 1, 1 (photocopy).<br /><br />Ov. ars 1, 1-228; 1, 263-270; 1, 631-772; 3, 1-156; 3, 760-812.<br /> Students are required to read in translation the entire book IV and book VI of the Aeneis and Ovid’s Ars amatoria ; <br />Compulsory part:<br />general knowledge of the history of Latin literature with in-depth study of key authors
Full programme
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Bibliography
<br />BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /><br /><br />Vergilius, Aeneis, (any edition)<br /><br />Ovidius, Ars amatoria, ed. E. Pianezzola, Milano 2000 <br />One of the following textbooks:<br /><br /><br />G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Firenze 2002<br /><br />G. Garbarino, Storia e testi della letteratura latina, Torino 2001<br /><br />A. Cavarzere, A. De Vivo, P. Mastrandrea, Letteratura latina, Roma 2003
Teaching methods
<br />TEACHING_METHODS: <br />Classroom lectures and exercises plus weekly tutorials. <br />The exam consists of an oral exam on various topics covered in the course syllabus
Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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