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18028 Letteratura latina in Archaeology and Art History. Protection and Valorisation LM-2 FUSI Alessandro
(syllabus)
Roman epic poetry from the beginnings to Vergil's Aeneid
Programme: the course is focused on Roman epic poetry, which occupy the first place, in Rome as in Greece, in the literary genres' hierarchy, and aims to propose a diachronic history from the beginnings to the Augustan age. A short introduction will be devoted to literary genres in Rome, to the relationship between Roman and Greek literature and to Greek epic's peculiar features. Important texts of Roman epic tradition will be examinated. The first section will concerne archaic epic, from Livius Andronicus' translation of Homer's Odissey, to Naevius' historic poem, to Ennius' Annales, which represent a milestone in Roman literary history. In the second section there will be an in-depth examination of late republican development of epic poetry, which sees a deep transformation of literary style and produces new forms (especially the neoteric epyllion), but knows also Lucretius' didaschalic epic, which forges a new philosophic as well as poetic language without forgetting archaic main models. Finally careful attention will be devoted to Vergil's Aeneid, masterpiece of the Augustan age and of the whole Western culture. All the texts will be analysed in their historical-cultural context, read and commented, paying peculiar attention to the genre tradition and to intertextual links which unite authors with their models.
(reference books)
A. Perutelli, La poesia epica latina. Dalle origini all'età dei Flavi, Roma, Carocci, 2014; latin texts, more bibliography and didactic materials will be given during the course (for attending students). Non attending students have to contact the professor for a programme.
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