Latin Poetry

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods aim to allow for a direct contact with the texts, studies in Latin and/or in Portuguese translation. The methodology rests upon the balance between theoretical components (exposition on hisorical and literary matters) and practical ones as well (textual analysis), thereby enabling the students to acquire the necessary basis for answering successfully the demands made by the final exam.

Learning Outcomes

To be aware of the development of latin poetry in the 1st century BC, from Catullus to Ovid; be able to distinguish the characteristics of the different poetic genres (epic, didactic poem, elegy, epyllion, eclogue, satire, epistle, lyric poem and epigram); to demonstrate the ability to recognize in individuality in the poetic output of the poets proposed for study and to be able to draw significant comparisons between them.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Latin poetry in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC: general overview.

2. Latin poetry in the final phase of the Republic: Catullus and Lucretius.

3. Generic Diversity and poetic cohesion in the poetry of Vergil.

4. Horace and the various facets to his poetry.

5. Propertius and Tibullus in the context of Roman elegy.

6. Ovid and his worlds.

Head Lecturer(s)

Frederico Maria Bio Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

CAIRNS, D. (1977), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome, Cambridge.

CITRONI, M. (2006), Literatura da Roma Antiga, Lisboa (Gulbenkian).

COLEMAN, R. (1977), Vergil : Eclogues, Cambridge.

COURTNEY, E. (2003), The Fragmentary Latin Poets, Oxford.

FORDYCE, C.J. (1961), Catullus: A Commentary, Oxford.

FRÄNKEL, H. (1969), Ovid: a poet between two worlds, Berkeley.

FREUDENBERG, K. (1993), Horace on the theory of Satire, Princeton.

GALE, M. (2007), Lucretius (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies), Oxford.

GILLESPIE, S. & HARDIE, P. (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, Cambridge.

HARRISON, S. (org.) (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Horace, Cambridge.

HOLLIS, A.S. (2007), Fragments of Roman Poetry, Oxford.

HUBBARD, M. (1974), Propertius, London.

KENNEY, E. (1982), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Latin Literature, Cambridge.

LYNE, R.O.A.M. (1987), Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid, Oxford.

OTIS, B. (1966), Ovid as an epic poet, Cambridge.