Classical Latin Literature

Code:

LLC095

Acronym:

LLPC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Classical Literatures

Instance: 2017/2018 - 1S

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	6	LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The study of didactic literature, in its various forms and genres, will develop the skills of research, analysis and understanding of the classical period in the history of Latin literature. 

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester, students must be able to: - Understand the political-cultural context of the classical period in Latin literature; - Recognise the polymorphism of didactic literature; - Situate the authors in the history of Greek-Latin literature; - Apply poetical-rhetoric knowledge to the analysis and interpretation of texts.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Didactic epos and the epic genre. 1.1. From the epic to the epillion. 1.2. Narratio and evidentia. 2. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things. 3. Virgil, Georgics. 4. The precepts of love and friendship. 4.1. Eros and philia in Latin culture. 4.2. Hellenism and Roman values. 5. Cicero, Friendship. 6. Ovid, The Art of Love.

Mandatory literature

ANDRÉ, Carlos Ascenso; Ovídio: Arte de amar, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2006
BORNECQUE, Henri; Ovide: L'art d'aimer, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1999
CASTILHO, António Feliciano de; As georgicas de Virgilio, Paris, Lainé e J. Havard, 1867
COMBÈS, Robert; Cicéron: Laelius, de amicitia, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1971
FALCÃO, A. Mendonça; Lucrécio: Da natureza das Cousas, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 1890
FLOCCHINI, Nicola; Lelio, l'amicizia / Marco Tullio Cicerone, Milano, Mursia, 1987.
GIBSON, R. K.; Ovid, Ars amatoria III, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
GODWIN, John; Lucretius: De Rerum Natura VI, Warminster, Aris & Phillips, 1991.
HOLLIS, A. S.; Ovid, Ars amatoria I, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977.
LATHAM, R. ? GODWIN, J.; Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, London, Penguin, 1994
MYNORS, R. A. B.; Virgil: Georgics, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990.
PINHO, Sebastião Tavares de; Cícero: A amizade, Coimbra, INIC, 1993
POWELL, J. G.; Cicero: Laelius, On Friendship, Warminster, Aris & Phillips, 1990
SAINT-DENIS, E. de; Virgile: Géorgiques, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1995
SHARROCK, A.; Seduction an repetition in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria II, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994.
THOMAS, Richard F.; Virgil: Georgics, 2 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988
WALTZ, René; Lucrèce, De la nature, 2 vols., Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1959-1960

Complementary Bibliography

GALE, M.; Virgil on the Nature of Things, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000
FANTHAM, Elaine; Roman Literary Culture From Cicero to Apuleius, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
KONSTAN, David; Friendship in Classical World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997
BOLLACK, Mayotte; La raison de Lucrèce, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1978
ALGRA, K.A. (ed.); Lucretius and his intellectual background, Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Academy, 1997
ANDRÉ, Carlos Ascenso; Caminhos do amor em Roma, , Lisboa, Cotovia, 2006
BOYANCÉ, Pierre; Lucrèce: sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, PUF, 1964
CLAY, D.; Lucretius and Epicurus, Ithaca (NY), Cornell University Press, 1983
CONTE, G. B.; The Rhetoric of Imitation, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1996
DALZELL, A.; The Criticism of Didactic Poetry, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996
DUDLEY, D.R. (ed.); Lucretius, , London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967
FARRELL, Joseph; Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991
ALBERTO, Paulo Farmhouse; Ovídio, Lisboa, Inquérito, 1997
ATHERTON, Catherine (ed.); Form and Content in Didactic Poetry, Bari, Levante, 1998
CITRONI, M.; Literatura da Roma Antiga, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2006
BARSBY, John A.; Ovid, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978
GIGON, O.; Lucrèce, Entretiens de la Fondation Hardt, tome XXIV, , Genève, Droz, 1977
JOHNSTON, P.; Vergil?s Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics, Leiden, Brill, 1980
HORSFALL, N. (ed.); A Companion to the Study of Virgil, Leiden, Brill, 1995
NASCIMENTO, Aires A. (ed.); Eros e Philia na Cultura Grega, Lisboa, CEC, 1996
CONTE, G. B.; Letteratura latina: manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1993
COMMAGER, S. (ed.); Virgil. A Collection of Critical Essays, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1966
CONTE, G. B.; Generi e lettori, Milano, Mondadori, 1991
FRÄNKEL, Hermann; Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969
GALE, M.; Myth and Poetry in Lucretius, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994
GRIMAL, P.; Cicéron, Paris, Fayard, 1986
CHEVALIER, R. (ed.); Présence de Cicéron, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1984
GIGANDET, A.; Fama deum: Lucrèce et les raisons du mythe, Paris, Vrin , 1998
GRIMAL, P.; O amor em Roma, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2005
HARDIE, Philip (ed.); Virgil: Critical Assessments of Classical Authors, 4 vols., London, Routledge, 1999
MARTIN, R. - GAILI.ARD, J.; Les genres littéraires à Rome, Paris, Nathan, 1993
McKENDRICK, P.; The Philosophical Books of Cicero, London, Duckworth, 1989
MILES, Gary; Virgil?s Georgics: A New Interpretation, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980
MIEROWITZ, M.; Ovid?s Games of Love, Detroit, Wayne State University Press,, 1985
MORGAN, Llewelyn; Patterns of Redemption in Virgil?s Georgics, Cambridge, CUP, 1999
SEDLEY D. N.; Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
VOLK, Katharina; The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002
WILKINSON, L. P.; The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical Survey, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978
PEREIRA, M. H. Rocha; «Amizade, amor e Eros na Ilíada», Humanitas 45 (1993), pp. 3-16
PEREIRA, M. H. Rocha; Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica, II vol., Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2009 (4ª ed.)
PEREIRA, Belmiro Fernandes - DESERTO, J.; Symbolon I – Amor e Amizade, Porto, FLUP- edita, 2009
PUTNAM, M.; Vergil?s Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1979
ROSS, David O.; Virgil's Elements: Poetry and Physics in the Georgics, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987.
ROBERT, J.-N.; Eros romain, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1997.
TOOHEY, Peter; Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry , London, Routledge, 1996.
VEYNE, Paul; L’élegie érotique romaine: L’amour, la poésie et l’occident, Paris, Seuil, 1983.

Teaching methods and learning activities

- theory exposition of programme contents; - analysis and interpretation of texts.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law

Calculation formula of final grade

Assignments / reading reports: 50% Written tests: 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.