Print syllabusAfter Virgil: Latin Epic of the 1st Century AD
General data
| Course ID: | WH-KON-AfterVirgil |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: | (unknown) / (unknown) |
| Course title: | After Virgil: Latin Epic of the 1st Century AD |
| Name in Polish: | After Virgil: Latin Epic of I Century AD |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Humanities |
| Course groups: |
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczelnianych - Obszar nauk humanistycznych (studia II stopnia) (in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczelnianych - obszar nauk humanistycznych i społecznych (studia II stopnia) Courses at UKSW |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | English |
| Subject level: | elementary |
| Learning outcome code/codes: | H1A_W01, H1A_W04, H1A_W05 |
| Short description: |
Introduction to the study of post-Virgilian epic ( Lucan, Valerius, Silius and Statius). Subjects discussed will cover plot sttructure, poetics, intertextuality, Roman ideology and esthetics of post-Virgilian poetry. |
| Full description: |
The Latin paradigm Virgil's Aeneidos libri, Other models: Homer, Apollonios, Ovid Lucan's fractured world: Pharsalia as inverted epic. Latin take on Apollonios: the case of Valerius. The poem of war: Statius The glory that was Rome: Sil;ius Roman history and the Flavian epic The philosophical component: the passion of Statius and the learned allusion of Silius The literariness of Silius Chanmging esthetics: the many guises of nekyia |
| Bibliography: |
Lucan The Civil War, with an English translation by J.D. Duff Cambridge Ma. 1928 (or later editions) Statius Thebaid, edited and translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge Ma. 2003 Silius Italicus, Punica, translated by J.D. Duff, Cambridge Ma. 1934 (or later ed.) Valerius Flaccus Argonautica, translated by J.H. Mozley Cambridge Ma. 1934 (or later edition) F. Ahl Lucan: An Introduction, Ithaca 1976 A. Augustakis MOtherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic 2010 A. Augustakis (ed.) Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic Oxford 2013 R. Ganiban Statius and Virgil, Cambridghe 2009 M. Gowing Empire and memory, Cambridge 2005 Ph. Hardie The Epic Successors of Virgil, Cambridge 1993 S. Hinds Allusion and Intertext. Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry 1998 J. Masters Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile Cambridge 1992 B. Tipping Exemplary Epic, Oxford 2010 |
| Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS: |
At the close of the course student will possess basic knowledge of Latin epic poetry of the Neronian and the Flavian eras. S/he will be acquanted with the poetic legacy of Lucan, Valerius, Statius and Silius Italicus,the peculiarities of their individual styles and aware of their later importance.The intended results comprise awareness of Lucan's strongly individual stance in the history of Latin literature, his contribution to the development of the concept of the sublime. The student will be aware of Silius' ambition to supplement Virgil, of Statius poetic explorations of Stoic ethical doctine. |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Oral examination. Two questions: one concerning drama of choice, the other - some general issues 5: student capable of fluently discussing both the general and specific issues with references to secondary literature not mentioned in the syllabus or handouts 4: student capable of discussing both general and specific issues but with bno references to anything beyond the basic literature 3. student capable to indicate chief traits of Latin epic poetry with emphasis on the general. for 3.5/4.5 student displays some awareness of the existing academic works but no closer acquaintance with these |
| Practical placement: |
Not applicable |
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