LJ257 Individual Reading (Plautus)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Asynchronous teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Daniela Urbanová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Daniela Urbanová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PROGRAM(N-LJ_) || LJBcSZk Bachelor's State Exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of this subject is to prove the skills of understanding original Latin dramatic text, to recognize archaic linguistic elements and stylistic specificity of the Latin text, translate from Latin into Czech language and to acquire the knowledge of selected passages in individual reading.
Learning outcomes
The students should be able to understand, translate from Latin to Czech and to comment on the passages selected for reading - one Plautine comedy of one’s own choice.
Syllabus
  • Plautine comedy of one’s own choice. Translation, metrical analysis, interpretation and translation into Czech language.
Literature
    required literature
  • PULTROVÁ, Lucie, Daniela URBANOVÁ, Marie MALÁ and Jiří ŠUBRT. Archaická latina (Archaic Latin). 1. vydání. Praha: Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2006, 82 pp. učební texty. ISBN 80-246-1165-1. info
  • PLAUTUS. Komedie o strašidle : veselohra o pěti dějstvích. Translated by Jaroslav Pokorný. V Praze: Československé divadelní a literární jednatelství, 1953, 65 listů. info
  • PLAUTUS. Amfitryon a jiné komedie. Edited by Eva Stehlíková, Translated by Vladimír Iren Businský. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1978, 607 s. URL info
    not specified
  • PLAUTUS. Pseudolus : komedie. Translated by Vladimír Šrámek. První vydání. Kladno: J. Šnajdr, 1946, 109 stran. info
  • PLAUTUS. T. Maccia Plauta komoedie Pseudolus : v rozměrech originalu. Translated by Jan Ladislav Čapek. V Praze: Nákladem České akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění, 1907, xiv, 117. info
  • PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Aulularia (Příl.) : T. Maccius Plautus: Aulularia. info
  • MUECKE, Frances. Plautus Menaechmi : a companion to The brothers Menaechmus, from Plautus: The pot of gold and other plays, translated by E.F. Watling, published in the Penguin classics. Edited by Plautus. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003, 77 s. ISBN 0862922399. info
  • PLAUTUS. Amphitruo : lateinisch/deutsch. Edited by Jürgen Blänsdorf. Durchgesehene und bibliograp. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2002, 160 s. ISBN 3150099315. info
  • PLAUTUS. Mostellaria. Edited by Frank R. Merrill. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2002, lvii, 166. ISBN 1853996386. info
  • PLAUTUS. Plautus, Rudens : lateinische Übergangslektüre zur Einübung bzw. Wiederholung der Gliedsatzlehre. Edited by Wilhelm Pfaffel. 2. Aufl. Bamberg: C.C. Buchner, 2001, 55 s. ISBN 3766158597. info
  • PLAUTUS. Truculentus. Translated by Walter Hofmann. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001, 237 s. ISBN 3534138007. info
  • PLAUTUS. Glorreiche Hauptmann. Edited by Peter Rau. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1998, 182 s. ISBN 3150080312. info
  • PLAUTUS. Mostellaria : die Gespensterkomödie. Edited by Hans-Joachim Glücklich. 4., völlig neu bearbeitete. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, 113 s. ISBN 3525716214. info
  • PLAUTUS. Four comedies. Edited by Erich Segal - Plautus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xlvi, 242. ISBN 0192838962. info
  • PLAUTUS. T. Macci Plauti Mostellaria. Edited by Georg Goetz - Fritz Schöll. Lipsiae: B.G. Teubner, 1927. info
Teaching methods
Homework, individual study.
Assessment methods
Individual reading and consultation. Written and oral exam. Adequate translation, interpretation and commenting on the Latin text.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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