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I. The Latin epic or the legitimation of power.
										
											
										
											I.1. Origins of the genre. Mythic origins of the Homeric matter and the archaeological evidence: the Mycenaean civilization and Troy.
										
											
										
											I. 2. Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey.
										
											
										
											I. 3. Ennius and the Roman epic.
										
											
										
											I. 4. Virgil and the literature of the Augustan period.
										
											
										
											I. 5. Commentary on the Aeneid. Reception of the work.
										
											
										
											MANDATORY READING: reading of the Aeneid (books I-IV, VI, VIII and XII).
										
											
										
											 
										
											II. Latin lyric poetry.
										
											
										
											II. 1. History of the genre. The Greek lyric poets.
										
											
										
											II. 2. Lyrical Catullus. Horace.
										
											
										
											II. 3. Horatian motifs and their influence on universal literature.
										
											
										
											II. 4. Commentary on a selection of Odes and Epodes.

MANDATORY READING: reading a selection of Greek lyric poems, Catullus and Horace. BLOCK III. The rhetoric the oratory The art of speaking well. From the winged words of Homer to Cicero. The current oratory. Speech analysis. III. 1. Oratory in classical Greece and the Hellenistic period. Oratory in Rome (until Cicero). III. 2. Cicero. Commentary on the Defense of the poet Árquias. III. 3. Oratory workshop (according to the Romans). Primary sources, objectives of oratory, parts of rhetoric, rhetorical figures. III. 4. Modern oratory workshop. Speech analysis: those of Brutus and Mark Antony in J. L. Mankiewicz's adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; selection of speakers from the s. XX and XXI MANDATORY READING: reading of the speech in Defense of the poet Archias, by Cicero. IV. The fable, the tale and the Latin novel. IV. 1. History of the genre. From the Greek rose novel (Daphnis and Cloe) to the parodyof the genre in Latin (Satíricon of Petroni). IV. 2. An enchanting story in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: the Tale of Psyche and Cupid. MANDATORY READING: Selection of episodes from Petroni's Satíricon. Watched Fellini's Satyricon. Reading to choose between Daphnis and Chloe by Longus and the tale of Psyche and Cupid by Apuleius.

III. Rhetoric and Oratory. The art of speaking well. From Homer's 'winged words' to Cicero. Contemporary oratory and speech analysis.
										
											
III. 1. Oratory in classical Greece and in the Hellenistic period. Oratory in Rome (until Cicero).
										
											
III. 2. Cicero. Commentary on the Defense of Archias.
										
											
III. 3. Oratory workshop (according to the Romans). Primary sources, objectives of oratory, parts of rhetoric, rhetorical figures.
										
											
III. 4. Modern oratory workshop. Speech analysis: Brutus and Mark Antony in J. L. Mankiewicz's adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; selection of speakers from the 20th and 21st centuries.
										
											
MANDATORY READING: reading of the speech in Defense of Archias, by Cicero.
										
											 
										
											IV. The tale and the Latin novel.
										
											
IV. 1. History of the genre. From the Greek novel (Daphnis and Cloe) to the parody of the genre in Latin (Satyricon by Petronius).
										
											
IV. 2. A captivating tale in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: the Tale of Psyche and Cupid.
										
											
MANDATORY READING: Selection of episodes from Petronius's Satyricon. Fellini's Satyricon. Reading to choose between Daphnis and Chloe by Longus and the tale of Psyche and Cupid by Apuleius.