Università Roma Tre

The course aims to cover the main aspects of the historical evolution of the Latin language, from pre-literary epigraphic evidence to post-classical production. Students will reflect on the peculiarities of the various registers of the Latin language in relation to texts of different types and periods. At the end of the course, they will be able to recognise the processes of language evolution and apply the main elements of historical grammar and metrics to the analysis of texts, in order to set an original critical discourse on a Latin text, contextualising it in the historical period and defining its register of use.