6 ECTS
Reading and translation of Virgil, Aeneid I and II; Caesar, De bello Gallico, VII, 1-50, and the texts examined in class are required.
- Students must know the following authors of the Latin literature: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Plautus, Terentius, Lucilius, Accius, Pacuvius, Lucretius, Catullus, Cicero, Sallustius, Caesar, Varro Reatinus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Livius, Seneca, Lucan, Petronius, Persius, Pliny the elder, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Quintilian, Plinius the younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Jerome, Augustine.
- Knowledge of notions of prosody and metric and the reading of the hexameter and of the elegiac couplet are required.
- The texts that will be examined in class will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of September
- Students can choose an edition of the Aeneid in an economic series (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli).
- Students can choose Cesare, La disfatta della Gallia (De bello Gallico VII), a cura di G. Cipriani, Venezia, Marsilio 1994 or an integral edition of the De bello Gallico (e.g. ‘Oscar Mondadori’, ‘Grandi Libri’ Garzanti).
- for the Latin literature G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina. Manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano, Milano, Mondadori 1987 (and subsequent reprints) or a good Latin Literature text used in high schools are reccomended.
- For metric and prosody L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina con cenni di metrica greca, Roma, Dante Alighieri 1998 (and subsequent reprints) is reccomended.

3 ECTS
Attending students will adopt the following edition:
L. Annaei Senecae Dialogorum libri duodecim, recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit L .D. Reynolds
Oxonii : e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1985.
The text will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of November.

For the exam, the translation and the comment of Seneca, Consolatio ad Polybium are required.

Non-attending students will adopt the following edition:
Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le Consolazioni, Rusconi, Milano 2020.

For the exam, the translation, the comment of Seneca, Consolatio ad Polybium and the study of the introduction of the recommended edition are required.