UZLJMC5 Reading Tacitus

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Prerequisites
B. A. State Exam in Latin Language and Literature
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows:
to understand selected passages from Tacitus' works;
to be able to comment on these passages from linguistic and stylistic points of view;
to be able to use information acquired in other courses to comment upon historical and literary context of Tacitus' works (on elementary level).
Syllabus
  • Texts:
  • Germania
  • Annales: I; II, 41-88; III, 1-6; IV; VI, 45-51; XI, 34-38; XV.
Literature
  • BARTOŇKOVÁ, Daša. (ed., transl.) Gian Biagio Conte: Dějiny římské literatury. (Gian Biago Conte: History of Latin Literature.). 2., revid. a dopl. vydání. Praha: KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2008, 800 pp. sine. ISBN 978-80-86791-57-9. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. P. Cornelii Taciti Annalium libri XV-XVI : Einleitung, Text und vollständiger kritischer Apparat aller bekannten Handschriften. Edited by Franz Römer. Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1976. ISBN 3205070240. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Letopisy. Translated by Antonín Minařík - Antonín Hartmann. 3., přeprac. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1975, 554 s. URL info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Letopisy. Translated by Antonín Minařík - Antonín Hartmann. Vyd. 3. Praha: Svoboda, 1975, 554 s. URL info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. O životě a povaze Julia Agricoly. Edited by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Praha: Springer a spol., 1945, 29 s. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Germania. Edited by Eugen Fehrle. vierte, erweiterte Auflage. München: J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1944, xvi, 132. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Cornelii Taciti Ab excessu divi Augusti quae supersunt. Edited by Émile Person. Nouv. éd. Paris: Librairie classique d'Eugene Belin, 1939, xxii, 786. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. P. Cornelii Taciti Libri qui supersunt. annales. Edited by Erich Köstermann. Lipsiae: in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1938, v, 382. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Letopisy. Translated by Antonín Minařík. V Praze: nákladem České akademie věd a umění, 1935, 208 stran. info
  • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt. Edited by Karl Halm. Ed. ster. Lipsiae: B.G. Teubner, 1901, 396 s. info
Assessment methods
Individual home reading, oral exam.
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 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010.
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