Latin V

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013002
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, Latin II, Latin III, Latin IV.

Teaching Methods

Presentation of the historico-political and socio-cultural outline of the selected period. Presentation of the selected authors and their most significant works.

Students will participate in the textual analysis and morphological, syntactic and stylistic review of selected excerpts prepared individually without the presence of teachers, although guided by him.

Theoretical systematization, backed by practical implementation of the morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects of the Latin language in its diachronic evolution and its synchronic variants.  Bibliographic consulatation

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the Latin V class, students should recognize and identify the specificities of the Latin language from a diachronic perspective, particularly its features identified during the period conventionally known as 'late antiquity'.  The student should be competent in reading original texts from 'Late Antiquity', and the correct translation and literary quality of the texts of selected authors.  The student should understand the cultural and historical scope of these texts, at the time they were written and in their articulation with later Latin texts.

The student should recognize in these texts their function as a model of the formal perfection of the classics, common to the education of pagan authors and Christian authors.  The student will be able to identify the morphological, lexical, syntactic and semantic evolution of Latin in the late Roman Empire of the West.

The student should be familiar with the classical and Christian sources of Western humanism.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the study of 'Late Antiquity'. For a critical view of linguistic periodization.
2. Specificities of the Latin language in 'Late Antiquity'.  
Signs of common Latin
Signs of Christian Latin. Biblical Latin and Christian Latin. General characteristics of Christian Latin in Late Antiquity:
—direct and indirect lexical neologisms
—semantic neologisms
—syntactic Christianisms
—lexical and syntactic commonisms
3.Continuation, consolidation and systematization of grammatical study of previously studied materials and promoting the study of Latin stylistics.  
4.Translation, morphological discussion, syntactic, lexical and stylistic commentary on excerpts from significant works of selected authors from the Late Antiquity period: Saint Augustine (De excidio Vrbis Romae sermo), Prudentius (Peristephanon) , Egeria (Peregrinatio Egeriae) , Macrobius (Commentarium in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis) and Claudian (Laus Stilichonis)

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlota Maria Lopes de Miranda Urbano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Class participation : 20.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Bibliografia Geral(bibliografia específica para cada autor será indicada  em cada edição anual)
Diletti, E.,Bibliotheca. Storia e documenti della civiltà letteraria di Roma Antica. Vol.3 Impero e cristianesimo(1997)Firenze.
Baños Baños, J. M.(Coord.), Sintaxis del latin clásico (2009)  Madrid, Liceus E-Excelence.
Blaise, A. ,Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens, Revu spécialement pour le vocabulaire théologique par Henri Chirat,(1954)Strasbourg.
Glare, P. G. W.(22012) Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford, Clarendon Press
Garcia de la Fuente, O., Latín Bíblico y Latin Cristiano,(1994) Madrid.
Leone, Luigi, Latinità Cristiana, Introduzione allo studio del latino cristiano.(1986) Edizioni Milella-Lecce s.d.
Serbat,G.,Les Structures du Latin (1986) Paris
Vaananen, Veikko, Introduction au Latin Vulgaire,(1967) Paris
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.(2003) New York:Modern Library
Clackson,J.,A Companion to the Latin language, 2011, Maldon-Oxford