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basic knowledge of ancient prosody and of the most common metres; ability to recite Latin (and possibly Greek) verses

The focus is on Latin metrics, but Greek metrics can be discussed too, if students interested in it; prosody, essentials of ancient metrics; selected metres: hexameter, elegiac couplet; Iambic trimeter and senarius, hendecasyllable, lyric meters

teacher-centred teaching; work on texts; recitation of verses

Active participation during the lessons (25%); midterm exam (25%); final oral exam (50%)

Bruno Snell, Griechische Metrik, Göttingen ⁵2010.

Sandro Boldrini, Prosodie und Metrik der Römer, Stuttgart 1999.

Stefan Flaucher, Lateinische Metrik, Stuttgart 2008.

Christian Zgoll, Römische Prosodie und Metrik, Darmstadt 2012.