PV1B138 Latin IV

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Ševčík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavel Ševčík, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! PV1A213 Latin IV && PV1A308 Latin III || AR1A308 Latin III
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is: to exercise reading and translating of an unknown Classical Latin text of intermediate difficulty or a simple Medieval Latin text into Czech with the assistance of a dictionary; to explain the basic oddities in the graphical form of Medieval Latin.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to: read and translate an unknown Classical Latin text of intermediate difficulty or a simple Medieval Latin text into Czech with the assistance of a dictionary; comprehend the basic oddities in the graphical form of Medieval Latin.
Syllabus
  • 1. introduction to translation – selecting a dictionary, interdisciplinary aspects and the purpose of the translation; knowledge of Latin editions 2. revision and practical application of the topics explained during the three previous Latin courses – translation of short, coherent texts written in Classical and Medieval Latin; the texts are excerpted from these works: Caesar – Commentarii de Bello Gallico; Cicero – Tusculanae disputationes; Biblia sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem; Hus´s letters; Petrus Alphonsi – Disciplina clericalis.
Literature
  • KUŤÁKOVÁ, Eva and Dana SLABOCHOVÁ. Ad fontes cursus latinus. 3. vyd. V Praze: Karolinum, 2004, 344 s. ISBN 9788024609287. info
  • Cursus Latinus compactus III. München 1998. ISBN 3-486-88508-1.
  • MAZALOVÁ, Lucie. Čítanka snadných textů ze středověké latiny (Reading book of simple medieval Latin texts). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 119 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6969-5. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • CAESAR, C. Iulius. Commentarii rerum gestarum. Vol. 1: Bellum Gallicum. Edidit Otto Seel. 3rd ed. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1977. info
  • CICERO, Marcus Tullius. M. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia. Edited by M. Pohlenz. Ed. stereotypa eds. prioris. Stutgardiae: B.G. Teubneri, 1982, xxiv, s. ISBN 3519012200. info
  • Biblia Sacra :iuxta Vulgatam versionem. Edited by B. Fischer - Roger Gryson - Robert Weber. 4., verbes. Aufl. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994, xliii, 198. ISBN 3-438-05303-9. info
  • PEDRO ALFONSO. Disciplina clericalis. Edited by Cristiano Leone - Laura Minervini. Roma: Salerno, 2010, xciv, 187. ISBN 9788884026897. info
  • HUS, Jan. M. Jana Husi korespondence a dokumenty. Edited by Václav Novotný. V Praze: nákladem Komise pro vydávání pramenů náboženského hnutí českého, 1920, lvi, 381. info
Teaching methods
One 1.5-hour class per week consisting of a lecture and a seminar.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: regular class attendance (75%); oral colloquium, which will examine the ability to translate a short Latin text with the assistance of a dictionary and explain the grammatical elements contained in the text.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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