Undergraduate Course: Amor and Roma: Latin love-elegy (LATI10035)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Latin |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | To read Roman love-elegy is to experience one of the liveliest, most socially-engaged, and provocative literary genres of the Augustan Age written by some of its most celebrated poets: Propertius (c. 50 - 10 BC), Tibullus (c. 55 - 18 BC), and Ovid (43 BC - AD 17). This course aims to equip students to become effective readers of elegy, cognizant of the origins, style and conventions of the genre, of its individual authors and texts, and of the social and political contexts of the early Empire of which it is the product, but which it also constructs and interrogates. In this way, alongside guided reading of the primary texts and secondary scholarship, students will be encouraged to explore how, and with what implications, the elegiac genre experiments and innovates, in particular by expanding its thematic confines outwards from the private world of amor to the public world of Roma. Elegy requires readers at all levels of engagement to confront the issues to be addressed in this course, which will therefore complement both its organiser's primary area of research (from which it directly arises) and many other modules in Classics which the students will study over the course of their degree. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should usually have at least 3 courses in Classics related subject matter (at least 2 of which should be in Latin) at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses but Elementary or Intermediate Latin courses will not count.
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| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 14,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | |
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 4 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
(
Lecture Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- knowledge of the principal features of Roman elegy (specifically its authors and texts, language and style, origins and development, conventions and themes)
- the ability to translate elegy confidently, to comment critically and incisively on passages selected with a degree of unpredictability, and to relate these to the wider generic framework
- a critical understanding of the principal approaches to elegy, and how these have changed and developed over time (e.g., philological, literary-critical, 'new historical', gendered, intertextual)
- a detailed knowledge of how elegy reflects the contexts (especially literary and sociopolitical) in which it was produced
- the ability to apply suitable specialist methodologies to reading elegy, and to evolve coherent and well-researched written and oral interpretations of the text on topics chosen with a degree of upredictability
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Assessment Information
Assessment for this course will be by written coursework
(30%; c. 3,500 words) and a written degree examination (70%; 2 hours).
1st Semester-only Visiting Student (VV1) variant assessment:
written coursework (c. 3,500 words) - 30%; and
a Subject-Area administered Exam/Exercise in lieu of the Degree Examination, to take place in Week 12 (see the current course handbook for further details) - 70%.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
1. Introduction
2. Elegiac tropes, conventions and generic composition
3. Poetics: the recusatio; the mistress as metaphor
4. Amor and mors
5. The Law and Violence
6. Elegiac narratives
7. Politics and Patronage
8. Intertextuality and intratextuality
9. Reinventing elegy (Propertius 4)
10. Aetiological elegy
11. Material text and the Poetry Book |
| Transferable skills |
- the ability to review critically and to consolidate knowledge and skills in a given area
- the ability to identify, define and analyse complex concepts
- written and verbal communication skills
- the ability to digest large quantities of textual material
- time-management skills
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| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Latin Love-Elegy |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Donncha O'Rourke
Tel: (0131 6)50 3771
Email: Donncha.ORourke@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Elaine Hutchison
Tel: (0131 6)50 3582
Email: E.Hutchison@ed.ac.uk |
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