FF:LJMgrSZk Master's State Exam - Course Information
LJMgrSZk Master's State Exam in Latin language and literature
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jana Mikulová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Petra Mutlová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Daniela Urbanová, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Daniela Urbanová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- OBOR(LJU) || OBOR(LLS) || (OBOR(LJ) && TYP_STUDIA(N))
In order to be admitted to the Master's state examination in the Latin Language and Literature, the student must
a) succesfully complete Bachelor's state examination;
b) gain credits prescribed by his or her study plan;
c) submit Master’s thesis, if he or she is a student of major or single-study (completus) study plan. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Classical Philology (programme FF, N-FI)
- Latin language and literature (programme FF, N-LJ_) (3)
- Medieval Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Medieval Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the Master's state examination is to prove whether a student have reached learning outcomes of the Bachelor's programme Latin Language and Literature as prescribed by his or her study plan.
- Learning outcomes
- A successful student should be able to:
describe the phonological and morphological development of Latin from the archaic period until late antiquity and, subsequently, until the end of the Middle Ages
apply selected theoretical approaches to compare the grammar of classical Latin with some aspects of archaic, vulgar and late Latin;
illustrate the main features of ancient and late Latin literature, its genre stratification and its development towards Middle Ages;
sketch the historical, philosophical, and religious backgrounds of the development of the society in antiquity
translate more complicated Latin prose and poetic texts into Czech language;
describe the main features of the prosody of classical and mediaeval poetry and read selected types of more complicated metres.
Requirements differ according to the study plan chosen by the student. - Syllabus
- Contents of the Master's state final examination
- 1. Detailed knowledge of Latin grammar and essentials of Latin linguistics (in the case of students who chose lingustic topic for their Master's thesis).
- 2. Detailed knowledge of Roman literature and its development in late antiquity and towards to the Middle Ages, knowledge of literary theoretical approaches applied in the research into ancient and medieval literature (in the case of students who chose literary topic for their Master's thesis).
- 3. General knowledge of philosophical, historic and religious background of the development of the ancient society.
- 4. Thorough knowledge of the prescribed readings, ability to translate and analyze these texts, correctly read poetic texts:
- completus study plan: Tacitus Annales I 1-74; II 5-26, 59-75; III 52-55; IV 32-33; 37-38, 67; VI 46-51; XII 64-69; XIV 1-16; XV 48-67; Horatius. Carmina I 1-3, 8-11, 14, 22, 24, 37; II 3, 7, 10,14; III 1-3, 8, 9, 13, 30; IV 3, 5, 7. Satirae I 1, 9; II 6; IV 2. Epistulae I 2, 10, De arte poetica (Ad Pisones); Aurelius Augustinus. Confessiones I, IX, De civitate Dei I, II, VIII.
- major study plan: Tacitus Annales I 1-74; II 5-26, 59-75; III 52-55; IV 32-33; 37-38, 67; VI 46-51; XII 64-69; XIV 1-16; XV 48-67; Horatius. Carmina I 1-3, 8-11, 14, 22, 24, 37; II 3, 7, 10,14; III 1-3, 8, 9, 13, 30; IV 3, 5, 7. Satirae I 1, 9; II 6; IV 2. Epistulae I 2, 10, De arte poetica (Ad Pisones); Aurelius Augustinus. Confessiones I, IX.
- minor study plan: Tacitus Annales I 1-74; II 5-26, 59-75; III 52-55; IV 32-33; 37-38, 67; VI 46-51; XII 64-69; XIV 1-16; XV 48-67; Horatius. Carmina I 1-3, 8-11, 14, 22, 24, 37; II 3, 7, 10,14; III 1-3, 8, 9, 13, 30; IV 3, 5, 7. Satirae I 1, 9; II 6; IV 2. Epistulae I 2, 10, De arte poetica (Ad Pisones).
- 5. Knowledge of Ancient and Medieval literature on the basis of individual reading. The list comprises minimal requirements:
- Řecká lyrika: Stiebitz; Kallimachos; Apollonius Rhodský: Argonautika; Řečtí bukolikové (Theokritos, Moschos, Bión); Komedie pro všední den: Menandros (jedna komedie); Anthologie Palatina (výběr); Epiktétos: Rukověť či Marcus Aurelius: Hovory k sobě; Polybios: Dějiny II (druhý díl ve vydání Antické knihovny); Lúkiános: Šlehy a úsměvy (dvě menippské satiry dle vlastního výběru); Longos: Dafnis a Chloé; Nový zákon (jedno evangelium); Starý zákon (Genesis, Kniha moudrosti); Kléméns / Órigenés / Basileus: jedno dílo dle vlastního výběru; Římská lyrika: výbor, Ferdinand Stiebitz (autoři císařského období); Sbohem, starý Říme: výbor, Eva Stehlíková; Horatius: Vavřín a réva (Odeon); Persius: satiry 1, 5, 6; Lucanus: Farsalské pole (1. a 6. kniha); Statius: 12. kniha eposu Thebais (v anglickém překladu), ze sbírky Silvae to, co je v Stiebitzově výboru Římská lyrika; Seneca: Faidra, Medea, O duševním klidu (některé z pojednání obsažených v tomto svazku Antické knihovny), Apokolokyntóza; Petronius: Satirikon; Tacitus: Annály; Quintilianus: Základy řečnictví (1., 2. a 10. kniha); Apuleius: Osel, Apologie aneb vlastní obhajoba proti nařčení z čarodějnictví; Iuvenalis: satira 1 a 4; Martialis: Posměšky a jízlivosti (přel. Radovan Krátký); Plinius: (1,20; 3,9/21; 4,14/15/27; 5,10; 6,16/20/21/32; 7,5/9/17; 8,7; 9,10/14; celá 10. kn.); Phaedrus: výběr z bajek přítomných ve výboru Václava Bahníka Svět ezopských bajek; Boëthius: Filozofie utěšitelkou; Ammianus Marcellinus (kn. 15, 16, 22); Augustinus: Vyznání, O boží obci; Einhardus: ... a neuniknout budoucímu věku, přel. P. Daniš, Praha 1999; Dětmar z Merseburku: Kronika, přel. B. Neškudla. Praha, Argo 2008; Petr Alfonsi: Disciplina clericalis – Výchova žáků, přel. E. Mendelová, 1997; Zlatá legenda (ca. 100 stran); Karel IV.: Vlastní životopis; Klaret: Ptačí zahrádka; Bohuslav Balbín: Krásy a bohatství české země, přel. H. Businská, 1986 (kniha 1, s. 49-119); Apoštol míru J. A. Komenský (ca. 200 stran); Kosmova kronika
- Literature
- AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Confessiones (Orig.). info
- TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Cornelii Taciti Historiarum quae supersunt. Edited by Émile Person. Nouv. éd. Paris: Librairie classique d'Eugene Belin, 460 s. info
- De civitate dei : The city of God. Vol. 1 : The city of God. Vol. 2. info
- PANHUIS, Dirk. Gramatika latiny. Translated by Lucie Pultrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2014, 281 s. ISBN 9788020023353. info
- PULTROVÁ, Lucie. Archaická latina. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2006, 187 s. ISBN 8024611651. info
- HORATIUS, Quintus Flaccus. Odi ; Epodi. Edited by Maria Clara Pellegrini - Luca Canali - Quintus Flaccus Horatius. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2004, xx, 541. ISBN 8804528974. info
- CONTE, Gian Biagio. Dějiny římské literatury. Translated by Dagmar Bartoňková. Vyd. 1. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 2003, 790 s. ISBN 8085917874. info
- HOFMANN, Johann Baptist and Anton SZANTYR. Stilistica latina. Edited by Alfonso Traina - Renato Oniga - Bruna Pieri, Translated by Camillo Ner. 1. ed. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2002, xiv, 522. ISBN 8855526790. info
- NECHUTOVÁ, Jana. Středověká latina (Medieval Latin). První vyd. Praha: KLP, 2002, 164 pp. 654,2. ISBN 80-85917-82-3. info
- HORATIUS, Quintus Flaccus. Opera. Edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Ed. 4. Monachii: In aedibus K.G. Saur, 2001, x, 372. ISBN 3598712340. info
- NECHUTOVÁ, Jana. Latinská literatura českého středověku do roku 1400. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2000, 368 pp. ISBN 80-7021-305-1. info
- MENGE, Hermann. Lehrbuch der lateinischen Syntax und Semantik. Edited by Friedrich Maier - Thorsten Burkard - Markus Schauer. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000, xxxviii, 1. ISBN 3-534-13661-6. info
- HERMAN, József. Vulgar Latin. Edited by Roger Wright. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, xiv, 130. ISBN 0271020016. info
- HORATIUS, Quintus Flaccus. Sermones. Edited by Gerhard Fink, Translated by Wilhelm Schöne - Hans Färber. Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 1999, 225 s. ISBN 3760813577. info
- Medieval Latin : an introduction and bibliographical guide. Edited by F. A. C. Mantello - A. G. Rigg. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1996, xiv, 774 s. ISBN 0-8132-0841-6. info
- SPUNAR, Pavel. Kultura středověku. 2. pozměn. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1995, 226 s. ISBN 8020005471. info
- VIDMANOVÁ, Anežka. Laborintus :latinská literatura středověkých Čech. Vyd. 1. Praha: KLP-Koniasch Latin Press, 1994, 222 s. ISBN 80-901508-6-1. info
- TRAINA, Alfonso and Tullio BERTOTTI. Sintassi normativa della lingua latina :teoria. 2. ed. Bologna: Cappelli Editore, 1993, 519 s. ISBN 88-379-0717-6. 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
- TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. P. Cornelii Taciti Annalium libri XV-XVI : Einleitung, Text und vollständiger kritischer Apparat aller bekannten Handschriften. Edited by Franz Römer. Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1976. ISBN 3205070240. info
- NOVOTNÝ, František. Historická mluvnice latinského jazyka. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1955, 361 s. URL info
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- Teaching methods
- Oral exam, defence of Master's thesis in the case of one field (completus) or major study plan.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment by the examination board.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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