Unit GREEK LITERATURE II
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005959
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Antonietta Gostoli
- Teachers
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- Antonietta Gostoli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Antonietta Gostoli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Filologia, linguistica e letteratura
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- A) History of Greek literature;B) The Greek epic between rhapsody and citharody: Homerus and Stesichorus. Plato, Republic, Third.
- Reference texts
- One of the following Greek history literature manuals chosen by the student: D. Del Corno, Letteratura greca, Casa Editrice Principato, Milano 1988. L.E. Rossi, Letteratura greca, Le Monnier, Firenze 1995.G. A. Privitera - R. Pretagostini, Storia e forme della letteratura greca, I - II, Einaudi, Milano 1997.G. Guidorizzi, Letteratura greca, Mondadori Università, Firenze 2002.A. Porro – W. Lapini, Letteratura greca, il Mulino, Torino 2017.
B) Omero, Iliade libro XXIV, recommended edition: Th. Allen, Homeri Opera, Tomus II, Oxford 1920.Of useful consultation:Omero, Iliade, Introduzione e traduzione di G. Cerri, commento di A. Gostoli, BUR, Milano 2015; Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary, Vol. VI, Cambridge 1993.Required readings: A. Ercolani, Omero. Introduzione allo studio dell'epica greca arcaica, Carocci Editore, Roma 2006.E. A. Havelock, Cultura orale e civiltà della scrittura. Da Omero a Platone, introduzione di B. Gentili, Laterza, Roma - Bari 1973, Parte prima.G. Scarpat, 'La lingua epica' in R. Cantarella-G. Scarpat, Breve introduzione a Omero, Società Dante Alighieri, s. c. 1991.For the fragments of Stesichorus: M. Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Fragmenta I, Oxford 1991.E. Cingano-B. Gentili, 'Stesicoro', in Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico UTET XIX, 1991, pp. 377-378.
For Plato: Platon, La République. Livres I-III / texte établi et traduit par Émile Chambry, vol 1, Les belles lettres, Paris. Required reading: G. Cerri, La poetica di Platone. Una teroria della comunicazione, Argo, Lecce 2007.Per la lingua greca si consiglia: D. Pieraccioni, Grammatica greca, n. ed. Sansone, Firenze 1990.For the metric we recommend: M.C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta, Cappelli Editore, Bologna 1995; B. Gentili - L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica: storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università, Milano 2003. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of Greek culture with particular attention to literary genres, the institution that applied functional compositional laws to individual occasions. Understanding the grammatical and syntactic structures of the Greek language and the basic vocabulary, the prosody and the main meters used in versification.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the Greek language, i.e. the main phonetic, morphological, syntactic phenomena and the basic vocabulary.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons.Exercises.Seminars.
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- The exam provides an oral examination that consists of a discussion-talk on the History of Greek Literature and the commentary translation of the texts provided in the program.
The duration of the examination varies according to its course. The test begins with a question on a topic chosen by the student. This interview is used to test the level of knowledge and ability to adequately expose what has been acquired. - Extended program
- A) General section:
History of Greek literature from the archaic age to the Roman age. Literary genres: major authors and works; times, places and occasions.
For students who intend to include a second Greek Literature examination in their curriculum, it is advisable to divide the History of Greek Literature into two parts:
1st Exam: Literature of the Archaic Age and Classical Age; 2nd Exam: Literature of the Hellenistic Age and Roman Age.
B) Study in deep of the following topics:
The Greek Epic between Rhapsody and Citharody: Homer and Stesichorus; Reading and commentary of Iliad XXIV and fragments of Stesichorus. Themes, language and meters of the epic and citharody. Plato and poetics.