LJBcB05 Reading Caesar I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 A31 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is based on an annotated reading of Caesar's Commentarii de bello Gallico. During the first semester of this course, students read the 1st book of the Caesar's work. The course is reccomended to students in the first study-year and it prepares them for the advance (move-on) exam in the end of the first study-year.
Syllabus
  • Practice of adequate translation of the Latin original text. (Stress on the differences between Latin syntactic constructions and the Czech modern ekvivalents.)
  • Comparation of the Latin original text and existing Czech translations.
  • Intuitive translation of yet unknown syntactical constructions.
Literature
  • CAESAR, C. Iulius. Commentarii rerum gestarum. Vol. 1: Bellum Gallicum. Edidit Alfred Klotz. Přetisk 4. vyd. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1957. info
  • CAESAR, C. Iulius. Commentarii rerum gestarum. Vol. 1: Bellum Gallicum. Edidit Otto Seel. 3rd ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1977. info
  • CAESAR, Gaius Iulius. Válečné paměti : o válce gallské, o válce občanské, alexandrijské, africké a hispánské. Translated by Ivan Bureš. 1. soubor. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1972, 634 s. URL info
  • HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch I-IV, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1968. info
  • HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch V-VIII, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1969. ISBN 3-425-04325-0. info
  • ROTHENBURG, Karl-Heinz von. Caesaris, e commentariis de bello Gallico, Bellum Helveticum. Edited by Gaius Iulius Caesar, Illustrated by Faber. 1. Aufl. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1997, 72 s. ISBN 3-12-667200-0. info
  • KOLLER, Hermann. Lateinisches Bildlexikon. 2. Aufl. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 1999, 431 s., il. ISBN 3-7608-1208-2. info
  • NOVOTNÝ, František. Základní latinská mluvnice. 2. vyd., 1. vyd. v H & H. Praha: H & H, 1992, 297 s. ISBN 80-85467-91-7. info
  • ČEŠKA, Josef. Textová kritika ve filologické praxi. Vyd. 1. Brno: UJEP Brno, 1973, 70 s. info
  • HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch I-IV, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1968. info
  • HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch V-VIII, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1969. ISBN 3-425-04325-0. info
  • MAURACH, Gregor. Caesar der Geschichtsschreiber. Kommentar für Schule und Studium. Münster: Aschendorff, 2003. ISBN 3-402-02166-8. info
  • ADCOCK, Frank, E. Caesar as Man of Letters. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1956, ix, 114. info
  • DOBESCH, Gerhard and Wolfgang WENK. Caesar: Kommentarband. 1st ed. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1988. ISBN 3-209-00741-1. info
  • CHRIST, K. Caesar. Annäherungen an einen Diktator. München, 1994. info
  • RICHTER, W. Caesar als Darsteller seiner Taten - eine Einführung. Heidelberg, 1977. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kurz se doporučuje začínajícím studentům latiny, slouží zároveň jako příprava na postupovou zkoušku, kterou studenti skládají na konci prvního roku studia.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
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