Students will need to understand the relationship between ancient culture and modern and contemporary culture, so as to acquire the linguistic, hermeneutical and cognitive tools to investigate historically and functionally any creative phenomenon of our time. They will also be able to read and interpret ancient literary texts, comparing them with the various 'rewrites' at later dates.

1. The reception of classics in modern and contemporary age.   2a. Examples of reuse of ancient texts in contemporary 'high' culture: literature  2b. Examples of reuse of ancient texts in contemporary culture: graphic novels and mass communication   2c. Examples of reuse of ancient texts in contemporary culture: cinema. 3. Plautus and his influence in modern theater. 4. Introdution to the Miles gloriosus. 5. Reading and translation of di Mil. 1-78 6. Reading and translation of Mil. 79-155. The delayed prologue. 7. Th efirst deception against Sceledrus: ll. 156-595. 8. The carachter of Periplectomenus: ll. 596-764. 9.The first deception against PYrgopolinices: ll. 765-1437. 10. Reading and translation of Mil. 1216-1283. The 'recital' of Milphidippa. 11. Reading and translation of Mil. 1394-1437. The punishment of Pyrgopolinices. 12.The reception of the MIles gloriosus between 'commedia dell'arte' and Renaissance theater. 13. Staging Plautus and the Miles gloriosus today. 14. Plautus in cinema.   14a. Plautus and italian cinema.  14b. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by R. Lester. 15. The Miles gloriosus and Pier Paolo Pasolini: il Vantone.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Steps 5-11: Plautus, Miles gloriosus (any edition with original latin text).  Step12: C. Questa, Miles gloriosus, in C. Questa, Sei letture plautine, Urbino 2004, pp. 76-97. Step 13: R. M. Danese, Plauto sul palcoscenico della contemporaneità. Appunti per una palliata italiana: Asinaria e Miles gloriosus, "PAN" n.s. 3, 2014, pp. 149-168. Step15: P.P. Pasolini, Il Vantone di Plauto, Milano 2008. Suggested texts: Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates. XII. Miles gloriosus, Urbino 2009; L. Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation, NY and London 2006; L. Gamberale, Plauto secondo Pasolini, Urbino 2006, pp. 1-119; C. Questa, Il ratto dal serraglio, Urbino 1997; M. Bettini, Per un'antropologia dell'intreccio, Urbino 1991   

The couse is mainly held in italian.