6 CFU
Reading and translation of Virgil, Aeneid I and II; Caesar, De bello Gallico, VII, 1-50, and the texts examined in class are required.
- Students must know the following authors of the Latin literature: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Plautus, Terentius, Lucilius, Accius, Pacuvius, Lucretius, Catullus, Cicero, Sallustius, Caesar, Varro Reatinus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Livius, Seneca, Lucan, Petronius, Persius, Pliny the elder, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Quintilian, Plinius the younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Jerome, Augustine.
- Knowledge of notions of prosody and metric and the reading of the hexameter and of the elegiac couplet are required.
- The texts that will be examined in class can be downloaded from the University website page ‘Materiali didattici’ starting in September
- Students can choose an edition of the Aeneid in an economic series (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli)
- Students can choose Cesare, La disfatta della Gallia (De bello Gallico VII), a cura di G. Cipriani, Venezia, Marsilio 1994 or an integral edition of the De bello Gallico (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti).
- for the Latin literature G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina. Manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Milano, Mondadori 1987 (and subsequent reprints) or a good Latin Literature text used in high schools are reccomended.
- For metric and prosody L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina con cenni di metrica greca, Roma, Dante Alighieri 1998 (and subsequent reprints) is reccomended.
3 CFU
Attending students will adopt the following edition:
G. Valeri Catulli, Carmina, herausgegeben und erklärt von W. Kroll, Stuttgart, Teubner 1980
The text of Catullus 64 can be downloaded from the University website page ‘Materiali didattici’ starting in November.
Non-attending students will adopt the following edition:
Gaio Valerio Catullo, Epithalamium Thetidis et Pelei (c. LXIV), a cura di G. Nuzzo, Palumbo editore, Napoli, 2003
