ESEGESI DEI TESTI LATINI

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

STAR06

Academic Year of enrolment:

2024

Year of supply:

2025/2026

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

Disciplinary Sector:

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DOMENICUCCI Patrizio

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Good knowledge of Latin language and Literature

Objectives

The Course, in harmony with the objectives of the Study Courses in Philology, Linguistics and Literary Tradition, BASA and STAR aims at
1) increase students' philological-literary knowledge
2) develop their autonomy of judgement
3) and communication skills through the organisation of seminar activities.
At the end of the Course the student shall:
1) have acquired an adequate knowledge of: a) the distinctive features of the epic genre; b) the peculiarities of the Metamorphoses also with reference to the contamination of genres carried out by the poet; d) the contents of book X of the poem; e) the relationship with the Virgilian model;
2) having deepened knowledge of the Latin language;
3) having enhanced the critical-textual skills acquired during the previous three-year period.

Contents

Orpheus and his song in Ovid, Metamorphoses X

Extended Syllabus

Outline of Ovid's biography and literary production
- Contents and characteristics of the Metamorphoses (literary genre; philosophical inspiration; political-ideological aspects; structure; compositional technique; style; metrics; intertextuality)
- The Myth of Orpheus
- Contents and characteristics of Book X of the work
- Reading, translation and commentary of Book X of the Metamorphoses
- Seminar meetings organised by the students

Recommended Bibliography

P. Ovidi Nasoni, Metamorphoses, edidit W. S. Anderson, Stutgardiae et Lipsiae, in aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1996

The text will be available for download from the Course page on the University website (Moodle platform) as of January 2026.

Non-attending students will adopt the following edition, accompanied by an Italian translation, also studying the Introduction

Ovidio, Metamorfosi, a cura di P. Bernardini Marzolla, Torino, Einaudi 2015.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures: 36 hrs Seminars: 6 hrs

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of in 1) a written 2) and an oral exam.
1) The written exam consists of the translation from Latin into Italian of a piece by a Latin author. The correctness of the translation and the quality of the written expression will be evaluated. The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.
To sit for the oral exam students must first pass the written exam (pass mark: 18/30). The oral exam will be evaluated from 0 to 6. The final grade results from the sum of the two parts.
2) The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess the students’ skills and in particular their understanding of the issues discussed during the course, their knowledge of the bibliography in the reading list, the correct command of the specific language as well as of critical and methodological abilities. The grading scale ranges from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18- 21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

The teacher will meet the students in the hour following the lessons

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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