Unit HISTORY OF GREEK LANGUAGE

Course
Italian, classical studies and european history
Study-unit Code
GP005342
Curriculum
Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
Teacher
Antonietta Gostoli
Teachers
  • Antonietta Gostoli
Hours
  • 36 ore - Antonietta Gostoli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/02
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The main topics of the history of the Greek language: from the historical point of view, the origins and the evolution of the different dialects, from the normative one, the most important phonological and morphological aspects.
Local alphabets and dialects; literary languages.
Reading and interpretation of archaic inscriptions and texts of choral lyric and tragedy (Pindar
Bacchylides, Sophocles).
Reference texts
A. C. Cassio (a cura di), Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, Le Monnier, seconda ed. Firenze 2016.
Y. Duhoux, Introduzione alla dialettologia greca antica, Edizioni Levante, Bari 1986.
O. Longo, Elementi di grammatica storica e dialettologia greca, Cleup Editore, Padova 1985.
D. Pieraccioni, Morfologia storica della lingua greca, Casa editrice D'Anna, terza ed. Messina-Firenze 1975.
M. Guarducci, L’epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Roma 1987.
B. Gentili, alii (a cura di), Pindaro, Le Olimpiche, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Mondadori, Milano 2013.
H. Maehler (ed.), Bacchylidis carmina cum fragmentis, Teubner, München-Leipzig 2003. R.D. Dawe (ed.), Sophoclis tragoediae, Tomus II, Teubner, Leipzig 1985.
Of useful consultation:
E.J. Bakker (a cura di), A Companion to Greek Language, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, Malden 2010.
O. Hoffmann-A. Debrunner-A. Scherer, Storia della lingua greca, Macchiaroli, Napoli 1969.
W.P. Lehmann, La linguistica indoeuropea. Storia, problemi e metodi, trad. it. il Mulino, Bologna 1999.
A. Meillet, Lineamenti di storia della lingua greca, con aggiornamento bibliografico a cura di D. Lanza, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (ed. or. 1963).
Educational objectives
Knowledge of the origins and the evolution of the Greek language. The capability of manage with the linguistic and dialectal information acquired.
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of the Greek language.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons:
Exercices.
Seminars.
Learning verification modality
The exam will be oral. It will evaluate the knowledge and the capabilities acquired from the theoretical point of view (historical overview of the dialects and the literary languages), and the translation (eventually the metrical interpretation too) of an inscription and a lyric text with a discussion of the linguistic phenomena involved.
Extended program
The following topics will be addressed during the course:
hints of the most ancient history concerning the territorial expansion of the Greeks, migrations, the formation of lineages and dialects;
a brief discussion of the systems of writing and transmission of texts (from the local archaic alphabets to the Hellenistic editions);
the concept of 'literary languages' and their relationship, of closeness but also of estrangement, with respect to authentic dialects, documented by epigraphic texts;
reading of some archaic inscriptions (Nestor Cup, Dipylon Vase, etc.) as examples of local alphabets and dialects; of pieces of Pindar, Bacchylides and Sophocles (Antigone) as examples of the language of choral lyric and tragedy.
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