Latin hermeneutics

Course: Classical Studies and West-European Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Latin hermeneutics
Code
ОК.10
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
10 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Learning outcomes
PLO 6. To apply knowledge about expressive, emotional, logical language means and speech technique for the planned pragmatic result achieving and for the successful communication organizing. PLO 8. To evaluate the historical heritage and the latest achievements in literary studies PLO 9. To characterize the theoretical background (concepts, categories, principles, basic concepts, etc.) and applied aspects of the chosen philological specialization. PLO 11. To carry out a scientific analysis of language, speech and literary material, to interpret and to structurize it taking into account appropriate methodological principles, to formulate generalizations based on independently processed data.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To have the basic skills of morphemic, morphological and syntactic analysis of Latin language units and skills of lexical, etymological, historical and cultural analysis and commentary of Latin texts. The course is closely related to other compulsory and elective disciplines of the major: Latin Language, History of Latin language, History of Roman Literature, History of Ancient Greece and Rome, History of Ancient Rhetoric, Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome, Ancient Metrics as the Basis of Modern Poetry, Ancient Mythology and Modernity, Ancient Plots in World Literature, Communicative Technologies of Antiquity, Ancient Theatre and Modernity, Ancient Roman Historical Prose, Ancient Roman Oratorical Prose, Roman Epic and Lyrics and Modernity.
Course content
Objectives of the discipline – Mastering practical skills of hermeneutic research of Latin texts; further development translation skills, linguistic, historical and cultural analysis of authentic texts. All aspects of the language are studied in along with the development of students; translation and hermeneutical skills. The discipline consists of 4 content parts: 1) Ancient Roman poetry: language, ideas and style: Ovid "Metamorphoses; Lucretius,On the Nature of Things; 2) Ancient Roman Comedy: Ideas, Language and Style: Plautus, comedy "The Treasure; 3) Roman historiography and Roman historians: Tacitus "Annals"; 4) Roman epigram: Martial. The course is based on the commented reading of Latin texts, translation and interpretation of Latin texts with historical, literary, real-conceptual, syntactic, lexical, semantic and stylistic analysis. The issues of systematic changes in the Latin language, changes in the language norm, as well as the issues of language heredity and variability of language forms are considered in comparison with the knowledge of other disciplines.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. A Companion to Latin Literature. Ed. by S. Harrison. Blackwell, 2005. 472 p. 2. Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman. Oxford, 2010. P.269-384. 3. Ancient literature: textbook / Kovbasenko Yu. I. K., 2014. 256 p. 4. Encyclopedic dictionary of classical languages. К., 2017. 552 p. 5. Godwin, John. Lucretius. London, 2004. 6. Knox Peter E.  Oxford readings in Ovid . Oxford University Press, 2006. 541 с.  7. Marcial M. Valerii: The book of spectacles. Foreword, trans. and notes. G. M. Sever. Toronto, 2014. 8. Mehela I. History of Roman literature: a course of lectures. К., 2012. 9. Tarrant R. J. P. Ouidi Nasonis Metamorphoses. Oxford Classical Texts. – Oxford, 2004. 10. The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus. Ed. by A. J. Woodman. Cambridge, 2009. 366 p.  11. Tronsky I. M. Cornelius Tacitus // Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Annals. Minor works. History. VOL. 2. - MOSCOW, 2003. 12. Vulikh N. V. Ovid. М., 1996. 282 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures; audio and video materials, presentations (Microsoft Power Point); Practical lessons; independent work.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment. The scores for the semester comprise the points for the mastering of the materials for the entire course. The total score for the semester consists of the points for the activities during the semester (oral answers, abstract presentations, giving presentations, test) and independent work (writing abstract, preparing presentations). All types of activities for the semester are estimated as follows: 100 points maximum, 60 points minimum. Final assessment: exam 24/40 балів (LR 1.1-1.10; LR 2.1- 2.6; LR 3.1; LR 4.1-4.5). Final scores for the discipline (60/100 points) is defined as sum of points for the activities during the semester (36/60) and final assessment — exam (24/40). A detailed description of the assessment forms, criteria and their organization is given in the work program of the discipline, published on the official website of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Vasylivna Korolova
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology