Latin 3 – Latin Literature
An indispensable and enriching experience: the origin and goal of the IISC School of Advanced Training! Here, the IISC method bears its fullest fruit, as the student, through a very solid linguistic preparation, becomes autonomous and can access literature without intermediaries, savoring every cultural aspect in a broad sense. This is the essential nourishment for the spirit that the Classics will never cease to offer us!
Overview
Admission
The course is the third year of the School of Higher Studies in Latin.
A sound and excellent knowledge of Latin Language is required. The course may be attended by:
– those who have attended at least the 75% of the course Latin 2;
– those who, having sound knowledge of Latin, might be able to pass the exam Latin 2 even without having attended classes.
Objectives
- In-depth knowledge of the Latin works, covered in class
- Understanding of any Latin text, prose and poems, even of high difficulty, without using the dictionary
- In-depth knowledge of all the most complex structures of Latin syntax and rhetoric
- Knowledge of the 4000 most frequent words in Latin classical literature
- Ability to write and speak in Latin
- Understanding of the basic techniques for teaching a lesson of Latin language through the inductive-contextual methodology.
Program
Students will deal with a Latin literary work which will be different every year.
Lessons will be held completely in Latin. Students will deal with the critical edition of the text, its historical background, the analysis of relevant scholarly literature and they will enter in direct contact with the thought of ancient thinkers and writers.
The course will be held in classroom. However, participants who had requested it in the online subscription to the course, may join a virtual classroom and follow the lessons remotely, through a link given by the IISC. Lessons in streaming will be recorded and will stay available for the students to see for a week.
Critical edition of the works for the year 2023/24;
L.D. Reynolds, L. Annaei Senecae dialogorum libri duodecim, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Oxonii 1977.
Recommended readings for the academic year 2023/24 (the following texts are not required for the exam, but are recommended for those who wish to strengthen their knowledge):
1. M. Bellincioni, Educazione morale in Seneca, Paideia, Brescia 1978.
2. P. Grimal, Seneca, Garzanti, Milano 2011 (2° edizione).
3. A. Traina, Lo stile “drammatico” del filosofo Seneca, Pàtron editore, Bologna 1970.
Recommended basic readings (the following texts are not required for the exam, but are recommended for those who wish to strengthen their knowledge):
1. A. d’Elia, Latinarum litterarum historia, M. D’Auria
2. E. De Rosa, De litteris Latinis commentarii libri V ad criticam artis rationem exacti
3. G. Mamone, Latinarum litterarum historiae, Signorelli
– Students who have attended at least 75% of class hours may obtain a course completion certificate.
– Those who wish to obtain university certifications (6 CFU/ECTS) should pass the final exam with an evaluation fo at least 18/30. The exam will consist in a written test structured as follows: (a) grammatical competences, (b) comprehension of a written text, (c) writing of a text.
Because of an agreement between the Italian Institute of Classical Studies (IISC) and the Classics Faculty of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) – whose titles are recognized by Italian universities – the credits issued at the IISC are automatically aknowledged for the students enrolled at the UPS and may be validated at the Italian universities (without prejudice to the discretion granted to the universities by the Italian law).
The course is also recognized by the MIUR – Regional School Office for Lazio as valid for the professional training of teaching staff.
Instructor
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