Universität Wien

090041 UE Latin Reading II (2018W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Gilt nicht als "Lateinische Lektüre II (Spätlateinische Texte)" für Bachelor-Lehramt Latein!
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

There will be guest teachers on the 23rd of October and on the 11th of December.

  • Tuesday 02.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 09.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 16.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 23.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 30.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 06.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 13.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 20.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 27.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 04.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 11.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 08.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 15.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 22.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Tuesday 29.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Romans had various ways of commemorating their dead. There were biographies of course, but more interesting are personal commemorations such as the laus funebris and especially inscribed epitaphs. The latter can be transmitted on their original stones, but are also attested transcribed in medieval (and later) MSS, sometimes as collections (syllogae). This course will concentrate on verse epitaphs and will start in the classical period before moving on to Late Antiquity and to the Early Middle Ages, where we’ll be working with inscriptions from Gaul (Gallia). Such texts are not regularly taught and need us. I am less interested in linguistic phenomena than in literary motifs and in cultural history. Think Lattimore, R. Themes in Greek and Latin Epitaphs, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962. We will work from editions that are out of copyright and available for download, e.g. Buecheler, F. Anthologia Latina sive Poesis Latinae Supplementum. Pars posterior: Carmina Epigraphica. Edited by F. Buecheler and A. Riese. Vol. Fasciculus 2. Leipzig: Teubner, 1897 or Le Blant, E.-F.. Inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule antérieures au VIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Vol. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1856.

We will read different texts together every week. Later in term you will be assigned a short text or texts for a personal project. You will translate it and comment on it on a Wiki.

Assessment and permitted materials

Grades will be assessed on the basis of class performance (preparation, engagement, tasks, shorter reports) and a final exam as well as the Wiki-project.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Ability and willingness to read Latin at sight in class and to study and prepare texts (sometimes non-standard) at home.

Examination topics

All the texts we read

Reading list

TBA

Association in the course directory

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