Unit GREEK LITERATURE
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35075906
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Donato Loscalzo
- Teachers
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- Donato Loscalzo
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donato Loscalzo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Filologia, linguistica e letteratura
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- I. Anacreon and symposiastic poetry.
II. History of Greek Literature. - Reference texts
- A) 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) B. Gentili, Anacreon, Roma, Edizioni dell’Ateneo 1958. H. Bernsdorff, Anacreon of Theos, I-II, Oxford, OUP 2020.
C) Platone, Simposio, a cura di G. Reale, «Fondazione Lorenzo Valla», Milano, Mondadori 2001. - 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.
- Other information
- II semester
- 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.