LJMedB11 Cupid's depiction in Latin literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Anna Pumprová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Wed 16:40–18:15 A32 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The ancient god of love Cupid (Amor) belonged to the favourite motives of Latin literature in antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the end of the course, students should be able to describe the image of the god in works of selected Roman authors of the classical period; to explain the development of Cupid's depiction in Latin literature to the end of 12th century; to compare Cupid's image of the 12th-century works with his ancient depiction; to translate and intrepret selected texts on Amor.
Syllabus
  • 1. Ovid and Vergil.
  • 2. Philosophical literature of Antiquity.
  • 3. Epithalamia of Late Antiquity.
  • 4. Cupid and commentaries.
  • 5. Altercatio Phyllidis et Florae.
  • 6. Andreas Capellanus (De amore).
  • 7. Alain de Lille (De planctu Naturae).
Literature
  • FLIEDNER, Heinrich. Amor und Cupido: Untersuchungen über den römischen Liebesgott. Meisenheim am Glau. Anton Hain, 1974. info
  • RUHE, Doris. Le dieu d’amours avec son paradis. Untersuchungen zur Mythenbildung um Amor in Spätantike und Mittelalter. München: Wilhelm Fink, 1974. info
  • JAUSS, Hans Robert. Allegorese, Remythisierung und neuer Mythos. Bemerkungen zur christlichen Gefangenschaft der Mythologie im Mittelalter. In Terror und Spiel. Probleme der Mythenrezeption. Ed. M. Fuhrmann. München: Wilhelm Fink, 1979, p. 187-209. info
  • CHANCE, Jane. Ovid’s Cupid as Daemon of Fornication: The Episcopal Mythographies of Isidore of Seville and Theodulf of Orleans. In Medieval Mythography. From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A. D. 433-1177. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995, p. 129-157. info
Teaching methods
Seminar, reading.
Assessment methods
Regular attendance and active class participation (min. 75%); presentation of selected texts.
Language of instruction
Czech
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