Unit GREEK LITERATURE II

Course
Humanities
Study-unit Code
GP005959
Curriculum
Classico
Teacher
Antonietta Gostoli
Teachers
  • Antonietta Gostoli
Hours
  • 36 ore - Antonietta Gostoli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2020
Offered
2022/23
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, The Apology of Socrates.
Reference texts
A) 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.
B) G. Cerri,
Omero, Iliade, Libro XVIII. Lo Scudo di Achille. Introduzione, traduzione e commento, Carocci Editore, Roma 2010; D.B. Monro-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 1988;
M.W. Edwards, The Iliad: A Commentary, Vol. V, Cambridge 1991. 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 197, 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 the Apology of Socrates: M. M. Sassi (a cura di) Apologia di Socrate, Critone, BUR, Milano 2004.
For the Greek language: D. Pieraccioni, Grammatica greca, n. ed. Sansoni, 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.
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.
B) Study in deep of the following topics:
The Greek Epic between Rhapsody and Citharody. Homer and Stesichorus; Reading and commentary of Iliad XVIII and fragments of Stesichorus. Themes, language and meters of the epic and citharody.
Plato, The Apology of Socrates.
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