Universität Wien

090051 VO Area of Latin Literature (Prose) (2024W)

in Spätantike und Mittelalter

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
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Details

Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Digital
DI wtl von 08.10.2024 bis 28.01.2025 16.45-18.15


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Aims, contents and method of the course

presentation of christian neoplatonic Latin texts in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (so-called school of Chartres), using inter- and intratextual methods, concentrating on the reception of Plato's dialogue Timaios about the creation of the world and on the problem of degeneration

Assessment and permitted materials

oral exam, no auxiliary means

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

more than half of the questions has to be answered correctly for passing the exam

Examination topics

the contents of the whole lecture

Reading list

W. Beierwaltes, Platonismus im Christentum, Frankfurt am Main 1998 (philosophische Ab­handlungen 73)
W. Beierwaltes, Denken des Einen. Studien zur neuplatonischen Philosophie und ihrer Wir­kungsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main 2016
Th. Leinkauf (Hg.), Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance, Leuven 2005 (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Ser. 1, 34)

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