Themes in Latin Literature

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The class will try to articulate expository moments with others in which students read and comment on texts by old authors, articles, book chapters, or make summaries of subjects treated in class space or readings they do at home. Music, photographs and videos can also be used to stimulate students' reflection.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course unit, the student should:

1. know if the subjects considered had already been treated in Greek literature and, if so, to what extent Latin literature has innovated in its reflection on them.

2. know, in a diachronic perspective, the social, political and cultural context in which certain themes of Latin literature were developed;

3. be aware of the particular way in which each author treats the same themes, i.e. the sub-themes and topics he adds and some more significant stylistic features;

4. be able to search for bibliography, make critical readings, elaborate new, documented and structured thought and text about the importance of a theme in Latin culture and literature;

5. have a notion of the survival of some of the themes in the later art.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The professor can treat some of the following themes:

1. Myth

2. Time

3. Space

4. Identities

5. Emotions

6. The literary universe (authors, writing process, literary genres, characters, topics and motifs, literary critics, audience)

7. Literature and philosophy

8. Literature, history and society

9. Literature, law and rhetoric.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

von Albrecht, M. (1997), A history of Roman literature. Leiden.

Amato, E. et al. (eds.; 2015), Law and ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation. Berlin/ Munich/ Boston.

Bierl, A. et al. (eds.; 2017). Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture. Berlin…

Braund, S.M. & Gill, C. (eds.; 1997). The passions in Roman Thought and Literature. Cambridge.

Citroni, M. et al. (2006), Literatura de Roma Antiga. Lisboa

Habinek, Th. N. (1998). The Politics of Latin Literature. Princeton/ Oxford.

Harrison, S. (ed.; 2005). A Campanion to Latin Literature. Malden, MA/ Oxford.

Lyne, R. O. A. M. (2007). Collected Papers on Latin Poetry. Oxford.

Nisbet, R.G.M., & Harrison, S. J. (1995). Collected Papers on Latin Literature. Oxford.

Oliveira, F. de et al. (coords.; 2009). Espaços e paisagens. Coimbra.

Papanghelis, Th. D. et. al. (eds.; 2013). Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature. Berlin….

Williams, G. D., Volk, K. (2015). Roman Reflections. Studies in Latin Philosophy. Oxford.