Latin V

Year
0
Academic year
2023-2024
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

Recognize and identify the specificities of the transversal vulgar Latin and, from a diachronic perspective, the features of the Latin language identified during the period conventionally known as 'late antiquity'. Be competent in reading original texts from Vulgar Latin and 'Late Antiquity', and the correct translation and literary quality of the texts of selected authors. Understand the cultural and historical scope of these texts, at the time they were written and in their articulation with later Latin texts.

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. Be able to identify the morphological, lexical, syntactic and semantic evolution of Latin in the late Roman Empire of the West.

Be familiar with the classical and Christian sources of Western humanism.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the study of Vulgar Latin and 'Late Antiquity'. For a critical view of linguistic periodization.

2. The sermo cotidianus not as a diachronic, diatopic, diastrathic or diaphasic variant of the classical Latin, but as participating of all variants

The transversality of the sermo cotidianus to all the centuries of Latinliterary production

The characteristics of the colloquial Latin

3. Specificities of the Latin language in 'Late Antiquity'

Signs of Christian Latin. Biblical Latin and Christian Latin. General characteristics of Christian Latin in Late Antiquity

4. Continuation, consolidation and systematization of grammatical study of previously studied materials and promoting the study of Latin stylistics

5. Translation, morphological discussion, syntactic, lexical and stylistic commentary on excerpts from significant works of selected authors from the Late Antiquity period: the author of Bellum Hispaniense, Apuleius, Petronius, Saint Augustine, Prudentius

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlota Maria Lopes de Miranda Urbano

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Other: 20.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

Bibliography

Baños Baños, J. M.(Coord; 2009) Sintaxis del latin clásico Madrid, Liceus E-Exc
Blaise, A. (1954) Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens, Strasbourg
Callebat,L.(1968) Sermo cotidianus dans les Métamorphoses d'Apulée, Paris
Clackson, J.A. (2011) A Companion to the Latin language, Maldon-Oxford
Corrêa-Cardoso, J.; Fialho, M. C. (coords.) Romanística - UM. Coimbra
Dickey, E.;Chahoud, A.(eds.; 2010)Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge
Dickey, E.;Chahoud (eds.; 1010) Colloquial and Literary Latin. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Garcia de la Fuente, O.(2017) Latin Bíblico y Latin Cristiano, Madrid
Glare, P.G.W.(2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford
Adams, J.N (2007) The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200BC-AD600. Cambridge, CUP
Schmeling, G. L.(2011) A commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius. Oxford
Smith, M. S.(1975). Cena Trimalchionis. Oxford
Väänänen,V.(1988, 3ª ed.) Introd. al Latín Vulgar.Madrid
Vessey, M.(ed; 2015) A Companion to Augustine, Wiley Blackwell