Syllabus
Code of the course
Course
General data
Study program
Course lecturer
Course status
Survey of Latin Literature
Undergraduate Study of Latin Language and Roman
Literature
Dr. sc. Gorana Stepanić, doc.
Core (Mandatory)
Elective
X
Year
I.
ECTS credit and mode of teaching
Winter semester
Summer semester
ECTS credit(s)
3
30 (1L – 1S – 0E)
Duration (hours per semester)
Language of the course: Croatian, English
Course goals, learning objectives, methods and expected learning outcomes
The main goal of the course is to provide a student with a general survey of Roman literature, its authors
and generic characteristics, stylistic features of ancient classical literature and its epochs. The students will
also get a general survey of Roman ancient history as far as it concerns the literary production.
After absolving the course, the students will be able to:
1. present a diachronic survey of Roman literature
2. list the major Roman authors and their works
3. define characteristics of genres in Roman literature
4. recognize and define specific linguistic and stylistic features of ancient Latin texts
5. read and understand a large number of original texts with the aid of translations
Course description
Representative texts of major authors are presented and their fragments read: Archaic-period literature (240-80
BC.): epic (Andronicus, Ennius, Naevius), comedy (Plautus, Terence); tragedy (Pacuvius, Accius); historiography
(annalists), oratory (Cato the Elder); satire (Lucilius). Late Republic: lyric poetry (Catullus and the Neoterics),
oratory, rhetorical, philosophical and i political prose (Cicero), antiquarian studies and philology (Varro),
historiographical prose (Caesar, Sallust), epic (Lucretius). Early Empire: the Age of Augustus (30. BC. – 14 AD.):
classicism of the period; epic and bucolic poetry (Virgil, Ovid), lyric poetry, epodes, satire, epistle (Horace); elegy
(Ovid, Tibullus, Propertius); 1st century AD: anti-classicist reaction in epic (Lucan), traditional epic (Valerius
Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus), philosophy: Seneca; epigram (Martial); satire (Juvenal, Persius), rhetoric
(Quintilian); historiography (Tacitus), epistolography (Pliny the Younger, Seneca). The last period: novel
(Petronius, Apuleius); Christian authors; Church Fathers (Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome); pagan literature in 4th
century (Simachus, Claudian, Donatus, Martianus Capella). The end of Roman literature: Boethius.
Teaching process and knowedge acquisition
Term paper
Homework
Class attendance
Class participation
Written exam
Project
Oral exam
Essay
Research
Continuous evaluation
Report / presentation
Exercise / practical work
Detailed evaluation within the ECTS
OBLIGATIONS
Class attendance and
activity during classes)
Term paper
Mid-term exam 1
Mid-term exam 2
HOURS
(estimate)
15 x 2 class hours
(á 45 min)
15
20
20
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
SHARE IN THE
ECTS
SHARE IN THE
GRADE
1-5
0,5
10%
1-5
1-5
1-5
0,5
0,5
0,5
20%
20%
20%
1
Syllabus
Final exam (written and
oral)
20
1-5
1
30%
According to the Code of evaluation the final grade is obtained as follows:
A = 90  100%
5 (excellent)
= 89  100% of the grade
B = 80  89,9%
4 (very good)
= 76  88,9% of the grade
C = 70  79,9%
3 (good)
= 63  75,9% of the grade
D = 60  69,9%
2 (sufficient)
= 50  62,9% of the grade
E = 50  59,9%
Reading list
Required (an alternative reading list may be offered to non-Croatian speaking students)
1) Vratović, V., "Rimska književnost" in: Povijest svjetske književnosti sv. 2 (ur. V. Vratović), Zagreb:
Liber, 1977, pp. 245-312.
2) Škiljan, D. (ed. ), Leksikon antičkih autora, Zagreb: L&G i MH, 1996.
3) For the concepts of literary theory and literary history: any work of reference on ancient literature
4) A set of texts handed out in classes
Recommended
Any of the texts mentioned, entire, in translation.
Additional information about the course
Course lecturer:
Dr. sc. Gorana Stepanić, doc.
_____________________________________________
Web page: http://www.unipu.hr/index.php?id=198
E-adresa: gstepanic@unipu.hr
Telefon: 0915042709
Assistant:
Consultations:
Please contact the lecturer via e-mail.
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