Latin Literature
Objectives
General outcomes:
a) To understand how Latin literature developed, from the origins until the end of the principate. (10%)
(b) To distinguish the characteristics of different genres, especially those which would have the greatest influence on the European literature canon. (10%)
c) To identify Latin authors who constituted a model reference in Portuguese literature. (10%)
Specific outcomes:
d) To have a diachronic view of literary periods. (10%)
e) To recognize the individuality of some of the authors under study, based on the distinction between norm and generic code. (25%)
f) To analyze significant excerpts from the works under study. (15%)
g)To establish comparative connections with Portuguese literature. (15%)
Cross-cutting outcomes:
h) Research titles and reference collections essential for the study of Latin literature: history of literature, commentaries, translations in English, French and Portuguese and learn how to consult online journal archives such as JStor. (5%)
General characterization
Code
711091128
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Inês Luísa de Ornellas de Andrade da Silva e Castro
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not applied.
Bibliography
CALVINO, I., (2015). “Porquê ler os Clássicos”, in Porquê ler os Clássicos. (Trad. Port.). Lisboa: Publicações D. Quixote, pp.9-16.
CITRONI, M. (2006). Literatura da Roma Antiga. Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian.
ELIOT, T.S., (1992). “O que é um clássico?”, in Ensaios escolhidos, Selecção, tradução e notas de Maria Adelaide Ramos. Lisboa: Cotovia, pp.129-146.
GRIMAL, P., (2020). Dicionário da Mitologia grega e Romana. Lisboa: Difel.
FREUDENBERG, K. (1993). Horace on the theory of Satire. Princeton: Princeton U. Press.
OTIS, B. (1966). Ovid as an epic poet. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
ROCHA PEREIRA, M. H., (2002). Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica. Cultura Romana. Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian.
WATSON M.C. ed. (1989). The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Oxford: Oxford U. Press.
Web Sites:
Classica digitalia
Perseus Digital Library
THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGIE - Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art
N.B. a par desta é indicada bibliografia suplementar
Teaching method
The classes have an eminently theoretical-practical nature. The direct method with sequential approach is used. Since the C.U. is an option open to any student, regardless of whether they have studied several levels of Latin, we opted for the adoption of quality Portuguese translations. Only some brief texts and some excerpts are also analyzed in Latin, in order to provide a direct contact with the originals and a specific lexicon identification. Learning results from the interaction between the theoretical component - the exhibition of historical-literary and stylistic content - and the practical aspect, i.e., the text analysis. In the case of students with Latin language mastery, the practical scope is widened to an expressive reading of poetry genres.
A continuous evaluation regime without final exam is adopted.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Methodologies - Participation in the classes, the quality of the work presented in the classroom(30%), attendance (5%), results of two frequencies(65%)
Subject matter
1.Periodization of Latin literature.
1.1The origins of Latin literature: the Greek influence.
1.2 The notion of gender. Brief overview of the different genres grown in Rome.
1.2.1 Genres in Latin poetry: epic, didactic poem, elegy, epyllion, eclogue, satire, epistle, lyric poem, epigram.
1.2.2 Genres in prose: philosophical and political treatise, historical prose, menippea satire, novel, technical treatise, epistolography, rhetorical theorization texts, panegyric.
2. Theater: prologues of comedies:
2.1 Plautus, Aulularia.
2.2 Terence, Heautontimoroumenos.
3. Elegiac poetry: Catullus and Tibullus.
4. The didactic poetry: Lucretius, De rerum natura.
5. Cicero, De republica.
6. Historiography: Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita.
7. Literary theory: Horace, Ars poetica.
8. The epic:
8.1 Virgil, Aeneid.
8.2 Ovid, Metamorphoses.
9. Seneca, Ad Lucilium morales epistulae.