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CLAS-B490

Littérature et langue grecques et latines I

academic year
2025-2026

Course teacher(s)

Emmanuel DUPRAZ (Coordinator) and Julie Dainville

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Analysis of one work from the Greek and one from the Latin literature: textual genre, philological problems, intertextual relationships.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Broadening and increasing the students' knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, continuing the Baccalauréat courses in this topic. Each year a complete work by a different Greek writer and one by a different Latin writer is dealt with in a philological and literary perspective.

To develop further skills for linguistic and literary analysis.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Ex cathedra teaching.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

In the academic year 2024-2025, the texts discussed will belong to the genre of the novel (in Latin: Petronius).

Course notes

  • Université virtuelle

Contribution to the teaching profile

Knowledge of the literary and cultural topics linked with Greek and Latin texts.

Other information

Contacts

Emmanuel Dupraz (emmanuel.dupraz@ulb.be)

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Two different exams, one on the Greek, the other on the Latin text. Both exams must be passed successfully, as neither can compensate for a failure in the other.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

Average of both exams, if both passed successfully.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

Programmes