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DE NONNO MARIO
(syllabus)
The course ‘Latin: language and literature’ is aimed at giving a thorough and no-anthological knowledge of some important Latin authors and literary works, read in original and explicated as regards both the language and the contents. It consists of:
(1) A number of lectures about the so-called ‘Literary Space’ of ancient Rome, minded in particular (a) to the links between literature and politics (and between men of letters and society), (b) to tipology and development of the literary genres in Rome, (c) to the range of different levels and functions of the latin written texts. Problems of preservation and transmission of the corpus of the latin classics will be envisaged also, even as regards their medieval and modern heritage.
(2) Some lectures about the main features of latin language.
(3) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of:
- (a) Lucrece, The Nature of Things, Book One
- (b) Cicero, Pro Caelio
- (c) Virgil, Aeneid, book II.
(reference books)
The course ‘Latin: language and literature’ is aimed at giving a thorough and no-anthological knowledge of some important Latin authors and literary works, read in original and explicated as regards both the language and the contents. It consists of:
(1) A number of lectures about the so-called ‘Literary Space’ of ancient Rome, minded in particular (a) to the links between literature and politics (and between men of letters and society), (b) to tipology and development of the literary genres in Rome, (c) to the range of different levels and functions of the latin written texts. Problems of preservation and transmission of the corpus of the latin classics will be envisaged also, even as regards their medieval and modern heritage.
(2) Some lectures about main features of latin language.
(3) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of:
- (a) Lucrece, The Nature of Things, Book One
- (b) Cicero, Pro Caelio
- (c) Virgil, Aeneid, book II.
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Università Roma Tre