Latin IV

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012990
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Latin I, II e III.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is based on reading, grammatical, linguistic, stylistic and metrical comment, and translation of latin authors.

The theoretical contents of the curricular unit will be presented through lectures based on practical cases. Students are encouraged to apply the competences acquired through practical working sessions, including the analysis of case studies and exercises.

Learning Outcomes

Students should become acquainted with the main grammatical structures of Latin and develop the more in-depth levels of latin morphology and syntax. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Reading, grammatical, linguistic, stylistic and metrical comment, and translation of:
- Vergil;
- Horace;
- Ovid:

II. Grammar:
1. Phonology:
Latin consonantism, assimilation and dissimilation of consonants, the simplification of geminated letters and the assibilation.
2. Morphology and lexical formation:
Defective, impersonal and semideponent verbs; adverb and adjective degrees, superlative degree (synthetic and analytical forms). Adverbs of manner. Word composition and derivation. Semantics and etymology.
3. Syntax, stylistics and semantics:

Systematization and in-depth study of syntax of modes and tenses, the modal attraction, the active and the passive periphrastic construction and of the subordinated clauses


III Metric and Prosody: Revision and consolidation of the study of the concept of amount and of the scansion of dactylic hexameter, and of the elegiac couplet. Studying some aeolian metre verses and stanzas.

IV. Translating into Latin.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Ribeiro Rebelo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 10.0%
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 20.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Gaffiot, F.Dictionnaire Latin - Français, Paris, Librairie Hachette,1995
Glare, P. G. W.,Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997
Lewis, T.,and Short, Charles, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press,1996
Ernout, A.,Morphologie historique du latin, Paris, Klincksieck,41989
Ernout, A., Aspects du vocabulaire latin, Paris, Klincksieck,1954
Ernout, Alfred et Thomas, François, Syntaxe latine, Paris, Klincksieck,1993
Lausberg, H.,Elementos de retórica literária, pref., trad. e adit. de R. M.Rosado Fernandes, Lisboa, Gulbenkian,21972
Marouzeau, J.,La traduction du latin. Conseils pratiques, Paris, Les Belles Lettres,1951
Monteil, Pierre, Éléments de phonétique et de morphologie du latin, Paris, Nathan,1986(Elementos de fonética y morfología del Latín, trad. de C. Fernández Martínez, Sevilla, Universidad, 1992)
Niedermann, Max, Phonétique historique du latin, Paris, Klincksieck,51991
Nougaret, Louis, Traité de métrique latine classique, Paris, Klincksieck,41986