Latin Prose
0
2024-2025
01013076
Classical Literatures
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical, using selected editions or existing anthologies, or to be created over the course of the semester.
Rarely expositive: students are encouragered to participate and discuss the materials as well as during the reading of texts in the class.
In-class presentation and review of individual and group work.
Learning Outcomes
- To acquire a broad understanding of the genesis, evolution and historical context of Latin prose, from its beginning to the second century A.D.;
- To learn about Latin prose writers in the different contexts, literary modes and genres in which they wrote, i.e. philosophical, historical, Menippean satire, romance, technical prose, epistolography, rhetorical prose, covering authors such as Apuleius, Cato, Caesar, Cicero, Petronius, Pliny the Ancient and Pliny the Younger Quintilian, the author of Rhetoric for Herennius, Sallust, Suetonius, Seneca Retor and Seneca the Younger, Tacitus, Livy, Valerius Maximus and Varro.
- To familiarise students with the themes, motifs, discursive and rhetoric strategies, stylistic and linguistic registers in order that they may discuss themes and art of the prose writers studied;
- To acquire heuristic and critical tools to reflect on current issues such as identity construction, from both the individual and collective point of view.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
In each course, the instructors will select a corpus of texts and authors covering three or four of the following areas: philosophical prose, including political, historical prose, Menippean satire, romance, technical prose; epistolography; rhetoric, including theoretical prose and panegyrics. The authors will be studied within the context of their time and the evolution of the genre or theme. Having outlined the general characteristics of style and writings of each author, we will analyse texts in Latin (with the Portuguese translation) that are representative of the theme and style of each author.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Synthesis work: 10.0%
Research work: 10.0%
Frequency: 80.0%
Bibliography
von Albrecht, M. (1989). Masters of Roman Prose from Cato to Apuleius. Interpretative Studies. Leeds.
von Albrecht, M. (1944), A History of Roman Literature: from Livius to Boethius. Leiden
Citroni, M. et al. (2006) Literatura de Roma Antiga. Lisboa.
Feldherr, A. (2009), The Cambridge companion to the Roman historians. Cambridge.
Fredouille, J.-C., Zehnacker, H. (2005), Littérature Latine. Paris.
Hofmann, H. (2004) Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context. London.
Janson, T. (1964), Latin Prose Prefaces. Studies in Literary Conventions. Stockholm.
Kennedy, E. C. (1998), Two Centuries of Roman Prose. Bristol.
Laistner, M. L. H. (1971) The Great Roman Historians. London.
Norden, E. (1995), Die antike Kunstprose. 1. Stuttgart.
Reinhardt, T. et al. (2005), Aspects of the Language of the Latin Prose. British Academy Scholarship Online.
Russel, D. A., ed. (1990), An Anthology of Latin Prose. Oxford.
Sénéque et la prose latine: neuf exposés suivis de discussions (1991). Genève.