Linguistic and stylistic characteristics of Cicero's letters (Phd)

Pre-requisites: Passed exams from previous year on Phd.

Course objectives: Recognizing stylistic characteristics of Cicero's selected letters by comparative analysis; Recognizing literary values of draft collection of letters written in everyday manner.

Course description: Epistolography as literary type, intimate correspondence of respected lawyer, jurist and statesman, Cicero as orator and writer and Cicero as corespondent; Lexicography in Cicero's letters, Greek language in Cicero's letters. Reading, analysis and interpretation of Cicero's Letters to Friends, Letters to Atticus and Letters to brother Quintus.

Learning Outcomes: Enabling students to see emotional function in Cicero's letters and to recognize speech which not only that informs but expresses.

Literature/Reading:

• Hutchinson,G.,O., Cicero`s Correspondence (A Literary Study), Oxford 1998. Tyrrell, R.Y., The Correspondence of M Tullius Cicero, Dublin 1885. Shackleton Bailey, D.R., Cicero`s Letters to Atticus, Vol. 1-6, Cambridge 1965. Shackleton Bailey, Epistulae ad familiares, Vol. 1-2, Cambridge 1977.