Unit GREEK CULTURE AND LITERATURE
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A000960
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Donato Loscalzo
- Teachers
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- Donato Loscalzo
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donato Loscalzo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Civiltà antiche e medievali
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Introduction to Greek literary civilization in relation to historical, religious and cultural contexts. Times and places, occasions and forms of poetic-musical manifestations.
- Reference texts
- U. Albini, Nel nome di Dioniso: vita teatrale nell’Atene classica, Milano 2002
V. Di Benedetto, E. Medda, La tragedia sulla scena: la tragedia greca in quanto spettacolo teatrale, Einaudi, Torino 2002.
Euripide, Medea, Introd. e Trad. di M.Grazia Ciani, Commento di D. Susanetti, Marsilio, veenzia 1998.
Aristofane, La Lisistrata, Introduzione, traduzione e note di Guido Paduano, RCS LIbri, Milano 1998. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of literary genres and of the most important authors, as well as works, of Greek literature in relation to historical, cultural and religious contexts, taking into account also the modern debate on some fundamental issues (orality and writing; myth, archaeology and history in Greek epic; pragmatic character and performance of archaic Greek poetry, ecc.).
The student will have to demonstrate the ability to critically analyze the texts included in the exam, by pointing out the links between poetry, places and occasions, and also having acquired the appropriate technical vocabulary. - Prerequisites
- Since the course is aimed at all students, even those who have not cultivated the study of Greek culture, no specific prerequisite is required.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Other information
- Lessons will start on 9/2021.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination.
- Extended program
- Introduction to Greek literature in relation to cultural contexts.
The social function of poetry in a world without writing.
Epic poetry
1) Structure of poems. The world of Homer between myth and history. The oral poetry theory. Reading and commentary of chosen pieces by the Odissey (VIII) and the Illiad (I) (Italian translation, as for all other texts).
2) Hesiodus: chosen pieces of the Theogony (The generation of gods and heroes).
The archaic lyric.
1) Elegy and iambus in the Ionic symposium: Archilochus and Mimnermus.
2) The Eolic lyric: Sappho and Alcaeus.
3) Rite and choral poetry: Pindar and Bacchylides.
The theater
1) From epos to tragedy; The cultural meaning of the tragedy; Dramatic festivals.
2) Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides: reading of selected pieces.
3) The comedy and the polis.
4) Citizen reality and the fantastic horizon in the comedies of Aristophanes: reading of selected pieces.
The Storiography: Herodotus and Thucydides.
Introduction to the Hellenistic culture: literature and philology.
Pausanias and periegetic literature.
Literature and iconography.