Imperial Latin Literature

Code:

LLC096

Acronym:

LLPI

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	1	Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/Classical Languages	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Understand the political-cultural contexts of the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D.;
- Situate Petronius and Apuleius in the Greek-Latin history;
- Understand the genetic "corpus" of fictional narratives;
- Apply the poetic-rhetoric knowledge to the analysis and interpretation of classical texts.

Program

1. Gender issues: the “old novel”.
1.1. From the Menippus satire to fiction.
1.2. Imitation, parody and criticism.
2. Petronius, Satyricon.
3. Apuleius, metamorphoses.

Mandatory literature

CITRONI, M. et alii; Literatura da Roma Antiga, Gulbenkian, 2006
GARCÍA GUAL, C.; Los Orígenes de la Novela, Ediciones Istmo, 1988
FERREIRA, Paulo Sérgio; Os elementos paródicos no Satyricon de Petrónio e o seu significado, Colibri, 2000
GAGLIARDI, D.; Petronio e il romanzo moderno, La Nuova Italia, 1993
APULEIO; O burro de ouro, introd., trad. e notas de Delfim Leão, Cotovia, 2007
COURTNEY, E.; «Parody and Literary Allusion in Menippean Satire», Philologus 106, (1962), pp. 86-100
CALLEBAT, L.; «Le Satyricon de Pétrone et l’Âne d’Or d’Apulée sont-ils des Romans?», Euphrosyne 20, (1992) 149-164
HÄGG, T.; The Novel in Antiquity, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1983
PETRÓNIO; Satyricon, introd., trad. e notas de Delfim Leão, Cotovia, 2005
HOLZBERG, N.; The Ancient Novel: An Introduction, London, Routledge, 1995
CONTE, Gian Biagio; The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius’s Satyricon, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996
ANDERSON, Graham; Ancient Fiction. The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World, Croom Helm, 1984

Complementary Bibliography

CÁRITON; Quéreas e Calírroe, introd., trad. e notas de Maria de Fátima de Sousa e Silva, Lisboa, Cosmos, 1996
XENOFONTE DE ÉFESO; As Efesíacas, introd., trad. e notas de Vítor Ruas, Lisboa, Cosmos, 2000
BOWERSOCK, G.; Fiction as History: Nero to Julian, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994
ERNOUT, A.; Pétrone. Le Satiricon, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1982 (8ª ed.)
ROBERTSON, D. S.; Apulée. Les métamorphoses, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2002 (7ª ed.)
MARMORALE, E.; Petronii Arbitri Cena Trimalchionis, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1970 (5º ed.)
GARRIDO GALLARDO, M. A.; Teoría de los Géneros Literarios, Madrid, Arco, 1998
AQUILES TÁCIO; Os Amores de Leucipe e Clitofonte, introd., trad. e notas de Abel Pena, Lisboa, Cosmos, 2005
WALSH, P. G.; Apuleius. The Golden Ass, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994
ALBRECHT, Michael von; Historia de la Literatura Romana, 2 vols., Barcelona, Herder, 1999
CONTE, G. B.; Letteratura latina: manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1993
HOFMANN, H. (ed.); Latin Fiction. The Latin Novel in Context, London, Routledge, 1999
LAUSBERG, H., ; Manual de retórica literária, 3 vols., Madrid, Gredos, 1980
FANTHAM, E.; Roman Literary Culture From Cicero to Apuleius, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
GAILLARD, J.; Introdução à Literatura Latina. Das origens a Apuleio, Lisboa, Inquérito, 1994

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory classes, practical classes and tutorials

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Latin literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00		2011-07-15
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2011-07-15
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73	2011-07-15
	Total:	73,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Reading report or research assignment - 30%
Exam - 70%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.