FF:LJ202 Reading Seminar (Caesar) - Course Information
LJ202 Reading Seminar (Caesar)
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s) (plus 1 for the colloquium). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Daniela Urbanová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jana Mikulová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 14:00–15:40 A24, except Tue 16. 4.
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- LJ101 Latin Grammar I && NOW ( LJ102 Latin Grammar II )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Latin language and literature (programme FF, B-LJ_) (3)
- Course objectives
- The main objective of the course is to enhance the students ability to read and translate Caesar's Commentarii de bello Gallico (excerpts from the book 1 and 6) and to enable them to acquire the translation habits necessary for a independent translation from Latin to the mother tongue.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course student:
- will be able to place the text of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War in the historical and literary context
- will master the acquired vocabulary of the read Latin text in order to adequately translate the text without the use of a dictionary;
- will be able to choose the corresponding non-literal means in the native language for the Latin structures and phrases;
- will be able to identify and explain the grammatical features present in the text in correspondence to the course Latin Grammar I and II. - Syllabus
- Primary grammatical analysis of Caesar's text.
- Caesar's most used grammatical constructions: ablative absolute, accusative with infinitive, temporal sentences, indirect speech etc.
- Practice of adequate translation of original Latin text. (Stress on the differences between Latin syntactic constructions and Czech modern equivalents.)
- Comparison of Latin original text and existing Czech translations.
- Intuitive translation of yet unknown syntactical constructions.
- Interpretation of the cultural and historical background.
- Literature
- required literature
- CAESAR, C. Iulius. Commentarii rerum gestarum. Vol. 1: Bellum Gallicum. Edidit Alfred Klotz. Přetisk 4. vyd. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1957. info
- not specified
- A companion to Julius Caesar. Edited by Miriam T. Griffin. 1st pub. Malden: Willey-Blackwell, 2009, xix, 512. ISBN 9781405149235. info
- CAESAR, Gaius Iulius. Zápisky o válce galské. Translated by Jan Kalivoda. Praha: Naše vojsko, 2009, 245 s. ISBN 9788020610508. info
- CANFORA, Luciano. Gaius Iulius Caesar : demokratický diktátor. Translated by Petr Kyloušek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2007, 445 s. ISBN 9788070219010. info
- MAURACH, Gregor. Caesar der Geschichtsschreiber. Kommentar für Schule und Studium. Münster: Aschendorff, 2003. ISBN 3-402-02166-8. info
- ROTHENBURG, Karl-Heinz von. Caesaris, e commentariis de bello Gallico, Bellum Helveticum. Edited by Gaius Iulius Caesar, Illustrated by Faber. 1. Aufl. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1997, 72 s. ISBN 3-12-667200-0. info
- NOVOTNÝ, František. Základní latinská mluvnice. 2. vyd., 1. vyd. v H & H. Praha: H & H, 1992, 297 s. ISBN 80-85467-91-7. info
- DOBESCH, Gerhard and Wolfgang WENK. Caesar: Kommentarband. 1st ed. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1988. ISBN 3-209-00741-1. info
- CAESAR, Gaius Iulius. Válečné paměti : o válce gallské, o válce občanské, alexandrijské, africké a hispánské. Translated by Ivan Bureš. 1. soubor. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1972, 634 s. URL info
- HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch V-VIII, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1969. ISBN 3-425-04325-0. info
- HORNIG, Georg. C. Iulius Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici. Erläuterungen zu Buch I-IV, Teil B: Lehrerkommentar. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1968. info
- ADCOCK, Frank, E. Caesar as Man of Letters. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1956, ix, 114. info
- Bookmarks
- https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/FF:LJ202!
- Teaching methods
- The course is realized as seminar. Students are required to translate and gramatically analyze particular chapters in advance at home with the use of a dictionary. The other requirement is regular attendance and active participation in lessons. During the lessons, the text is translated in group and the grammar is explained.
- Assessment methods
- Requirements for obtaining the credit: oral translation of short passage of the text; regular attendance and active participation in seminars.
Completion of the course colloquium - compulsory reading: the first and the sixth book.
Completion of the course credit course - compulsory reading: the sixth book and the parts of the first book translated during the seminars. - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Zápočet si volí studenti vedlejšího studijního plánu (minor), kolokvium studenti jednooborového nebo hlavního studijního plánu (completus, maior).
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- RLS202 Reading Seminar (Caesar)
(RLS101 || LJ101) && !LJ202
- RLS202 Reading Seminar (Caesar)
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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