UZLJA03 Roman Literature: Selected Topics I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Mon 8:20–9:55 A40
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present the aspects of Roman poetry that are not dealt with in introductory courses on the history of Roman literature offered in the bachelor program and that are, however, subjects of modern academic research.
At the end of the course, students should be able: to find and properly analyse authorial statements (both explicit and implicit); to define the characteristic features of particular literary genres; to recognize who is the expected reader of the text.
Syllabus
  • 1.-4.Program and authorial poems by Catullus and Horace (Cat. Carm. 1, 16, 49, 95, 116; Hor. Carm. 1,1; 1,38; 2,1; 2,13; 3,1; 3,19; 3,30; 4,1-3).
  • 5.-6. Heroic epic poetry (Vergil: Aeneis, Lucan: Bellum civile, Statius: Thebais, Achilleis).
  • 7.-8. Didactic and philosophical epos (Vergil: Georgica, Lucretius: De rerum natura).
  • 9.-10. Ovid's elegies and amusing didactic works (Amores, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris, Fasti, Metamorphoses).
  • 11. Horace's literary-theoretical poem Ars poetica.
  • 12. Satires of Juvenal and Persius. 13. Martial's epigrams.
Literature
  • BARTOŇKOVÁ, Dagmar. (ed., transl.) Gian Biagio Conte: Dějiny římské literatury (Gian Biagio Conte: History of Roman Literature). 1st ed. Praha: KLP - Koniash Latin Press, 2003, 790 pp. sine. ISBN 80-85917-87-4. info
  • CONTE, Gian Biagio. The rhetoric of imitation :genre and poetic memory in Virgil and other Latin poets. Edited by Charles Segal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8014-1733-3. info
  • CONTE, Gian Biagio. L'autore nascosto :un'interpretazione del "Satyricon". Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 1997, 218 s. ISBN 88-15-05767-6. info
  • ALBRECHT, Michael von. Römische Poesie :Texte und Interpretationen. 1. Aufl. Heidelberg: Lothar Stiehm Verlag, 1977, 371 s. ISBN 3-7988-0045-6. info
  • ALBRECHT, Michael von. Meister römischer Prosa :von Cato bis Apuleius. 2., durchgeseh. Aufl. Heidelberg: Lambert Schneider, 1983, 231 s. ISBN 3-7953-0513-6. info
  • ALBRECHT, Michael von. Geschichte der römischen Literatur von Andronicus bis Boëthius : mit Berücksichtigung ihrer Bedeutung für die Neuzeit. Bd. 1 [Albrecht, 1997]. 2., bearb. Aufl. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997, xviii, 704. ISBN 3-598-11198-3. info
  • Die römische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Edited by Michael von Albrecht - Hubert Petersmann - Astrid Petersmann. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2000, 476 s. ISBN 3-15-008066-5. info
  • Die römische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Edited by Michael von Albrecht - Anton D. Leeman. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2000, 456 s. ISBN 3-15-008067-3. info
  • Die römische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Edited by Michael von Albrecht. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2001, 488 s. ISBN 3-15-008068-1. info
  • Die römische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Bd. 4, Kaiserzeit. I, Von Seneca maior bis Apuleius : Kaiserzeit. I, Von Seneca maior bis Apuleius (Podřaz.). Edited by Michael von Albrecht - Walter Kißel. 2., verbes. und bibliographi. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1998, 472 s. ISBN 3-15-008069-X. info
  • Die römische Literatur in Text und Darstellung. Edited by Michael von Albrecht - Hans Armin Gärtner. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1988, 591 s. ISBN 3-15-008070-3. info
Teaching methods
The course is provided as lectures, however, regular attendance of students (min. 75%) as well as their current home preliminary text analysis are required. Student should get thorough skills in decoding literary topics and recognizing other genre criteria. The ability od individual and independent analysis is prooved in the end of the course.
Assessment methods
For obtaining colloquim, a written comparison of any two poems of the analysed genre is required (prooving competence of individual genre analysis in praxis). If needed, oral examining (additional analysis of student's essay).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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