Unit GREEK
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35357806
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Donato Loscalzo
- Teachers
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- Donato Loscalzo
- Lucia Pallaracci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donato Loscalzo
- 30 ore - Lucia Pallaracci
- 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
- Reading of Ilias I, and the study of the main forms of Greek language.
- Reference texts
- A. Aloni, La lingua dei Greci, Roma, Carocci, 2011, II ed.
E. van Emde Boas - A. Rijksbaron- : Huitink - M. De Bakker, Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
A. Meillet, Lineamenti di storia della lingua greca, con aggiornamento bibliografico a cura di D. Lanza, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (ed. or. 1963).
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, Paris, Klincksieck, 1999 (con aggiornamenti). - Educational objectives
- Improvement of Greek vocabulary and knowledge of ancient Greek language.
- Prerequisites
- Basic scholastic knowledge of ancient Greek language.
- Teaching methods
- Plenary lectures including translation practice and textual analysis.
- Other information
- I semester.
- Learning verification modality
- The oral exam, which tests the knowledge and skills acquired in the discipline, consists of the translation of a passage from a Greek text, which was studied during the course, and the discussion of linguistic aspects. The test will assess the ability to analyse the major morphosyntactic features of ancient Greek.
- Extended program
- Analysis of Odyssea IX with the study of the main forms of Greek language of the archaic and classical ages. The module deals with translation problems and useful techniques in the interpretation of Greek texts from a linguistic and stylistic perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the principal characteristics of the Greek language (phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary) and some aspects of the evolution of the Greek language between the classical age and the second century AD.