Latin Language and Culture

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

-Promote a conscientious attitude,memory and inductive thought.-Establish a connection between Latin Language and Portuguese Language.-Explore the reciprocity between Language and Culture.-Develop a functional reading,apprehending the global sense through the understanding of particular aspects.-Instigate several tasks in order to construct student’s autonomy in creation of their own conceptual schedules and knowledge.-Enrich the lexical inventory through etymological,semantic and ideological exercises.

Learning Outcomes

Obj
Contribute to the apprehens and understand of the genesis of Western cult
Recognize the current relevance of the Latin matrix in cult Portug, in promot responses to the desires of contemp Man
Promote national identity and linguistic heritage
Strengthen communicat skills and linguist proficiency in Portug
Enrich the development of lang as an exp of thought
Values the worldviof the past in the present through articulat with our hist-cult roots
Interp the meaning of tradit Portug values in their relat with the past
Confirm the lexical-semantic relationship between Portug and Latin lang
Critically evaluate the values transmitted to the present

Acquisit of competit
Reading and understand a Latin text
Ability to establish comparat analyzes between Latin Lang and Culture and Portug Lang and Culture
Linguistic reflect and analysis of the constit elements of the sentence
Autonomy and linguist handling in a new situat
Transfer and articulat of knowledge between the 2 linguistic systems

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Indo-european origin
2. The Presence of Latin in Portuguese
3. Latin Culture in the present
4. The chronology of roman civilization
5. First approach to latin language

Latin Culture
1 De romanorumque fabulis: the moral pedagogy
1.1 Origin and Geneology of Myths
2. De romana religione: roman religion
3. De fabulosa Romae origine:the origin of Rome
4. De quotidianis romanorum occupationibus: life and traditions in roman society

Latin language
1.Latin Declensions (1st, 2nd, 3th, 4th, 5th) and nominal classes
2.Verbal conjugations and verbal inflection
2.1. Regular and Irregular Verb
2.2. Infectum, Active voice and Indicative
2.2 Perfectum, Active vice and Indicative
2.3 Verbo sum and compound verbs
3. Prepositions
4. Conjunctions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Isabel Correia Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The evaluation is integrated in a continuous pedagogical activity and converted in descriptive and qualitative criteria: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Ferreira,António Gomes,Dicionário de Latim-Português,Porto Editora,Porto,1998.
Gaffiot,Félix,Dictionnaire Latin-Français,Hachette,Paris,2000
Grimal,Pierre,Dicionário de Mitologia Grega e Romana,Difel,Lisboa,1992
Grimal,Pierre,A Civilização Romana.Edições 70,Lisboa,1984
Hacquard,Georges,Dicionário de Mitologia Grega e Romana,Edições ASA,Lisboa,1990
Paratore,Ettore,História da Literatura Latina,Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,Lisboa,1987
Pereira,Maria Helena da Rocha,Romana.Antologia da Cultura Latina.Coimbra:Instituto de Estudos Clássicos, Coimbra,2000.
Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica:Cultura Romana,II volume,Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,Lisboa, 2002.
Serbat,Guy,Les Structures du Latin.Paris:Picard,Paris,1994.