Aims

The aim of the course is to :
1) Extend and improve students' knowledge of classical Latin, through the analysis of linguistic documents from different periods of history.
2) Promote critical reflection on methods of linguistic description and the theories on which they are based.
3) Further students' active mastery of the Latin Language.

Main themes

1) An introduction to various historical manifestations of the Latin language in Antiquity (Italic dialects, archaic and pre-classical Latin, poetic language, vulgar and late Latin, Christian Latin etc.).
2) Students will study prose art texts as a way of introducing them to stylistic textual features and rhetorical figures; verse texts will be studied by way of an introduction to poetic language in general and prosody and metrics in particular.
3) Alongside the first two components of the course, delivered through lectures and sessions of practical exercises, there is a self-study component, requiring students to read texts at home, involving detailed translation and in-depth linguistic and stylistic commentary.
4) Regular Latin-French and French-Latin translations.

Content and teaching methods

This lecture course will introduce students to the different stages of the Latin language, from archaic and pre-classical times through to Late Antiquity. Students will come to lectures with prepared translations of written art prose or verse texts, which will then be analysed in class in relation to their contribution to understanding of the linguistic, rhetorical and metric foundations of literary composition.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Course entry requirements: GLOR 1241 : Latin Language I.
Evaluation: continuous assessment throughout the year (through tests and personal work). There is an examination with oral and written components.

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