Ovid's Intertextual Dialogue 03-AP-OID

Course learning content:
- the cultural policy of Augustus,
- Ovid's life and literary career,
- Ovid's play with literary tradition: "Heroides",
- Ovid's intertextual play: "Ars amatoria",
- the renarration in "Metamorphoses",
- Ovid in the dialogue with the modern art,
- Ovid's game with himself: "Fasti",
- Ovid's play and dialogue with a reader: "Ibis".

Module learning aims

Course aims: To make students more familiar with the rich and various ways used by Ovid to play an intertextual game with the reader in his times and nowadays. To make student conscious, how to describe some ambiguous details concerning the art and the point works of one of the most emminent Roman poet.

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

Lecture with a multimedia presentation, discussions.

Student workload (ECTS credits)

Module type

elective

(in Polish) Sylabus zajęć

(in Polish) https://amupie.amu.edu.pl/1625/details

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Quite adequate knowledge of English.

Course coordinators

Elżbieta Wesołowska

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- be conscious of the general art of Ovid’s imitation and aemulatio,
- describe various methods of using the ancient topoi and motifs in Ovidian poems,
- discuss Ovid’s attitude toward ancient tradition, especially in constructing female figures,
- familiar with the wider view of the Augustean epoch and its eminent poets,
- familiar with the Augustus’ social and moral politics in those times,
- to have his/her own opinion on the problem: Ovid in the connection with his reader: a play or a dialogue?,
- discuss the question of Ovid in exile and his special usage of Greek mythology.

Assessment criteria

Grade system:

very good (bdb; 5,0): excellent knowledge of Ovid’s use of the tradition. Fluent enumerating of adequate examples of such connections

good plus (+db; 4,5): very good knowledge (only with minor lacks) of Ovid’s use of the tradition. Fluent enumerating of adequate examples of such connections

good (db; 4,0): good knowledge of Ovid’s use of the tradition. Good enumerating of adequate examples of such connections

satisfactory plus (+dst; 3,5): as above but with some errors and lacks.

satisfactory (dst; 3,0): satisfactory knowledge of Ovid’s use of the tradition. Satisfactory ennumerating adequate examples of such connections

unsatisfactory (ndst; 2,0): unsatisfactory, very poor with many errors and lacks, knowledge of Ovid’s use of the tradition. No skill of ennumerating of adequate examples of such connections.

Bibliography

Reading list:
Taplin, Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, Cambridge 2010.
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, 2002.
A. Barchiesi, The Poet and the Prince, 1994.
Latin-English editions of Ovid in Loeb Library:
- Ovid, Metamorphoses,
- Ovid, Ars amatoria,
- Ovid, Tristia, Epistulae.

Additional information

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