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
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- Antonietta Gostoli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Antonietta Gostoli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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
- During the course we will address the fundamental issues relating to the history of the Greek language: on a historical level, the origin and evolution of dialects; at a normative level, the main phonological and morphological aspects. Literary languages will also be studied (Homeric language and the language of choral poetry) by examining texts of choral poetry and tragedy.
- 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.
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
- Basic knowledge of Greek dialects and literay languages.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the Greek language.
- Teaching methods
- Lessons and seminars.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
- Extended program
- We will examine the local alphabets and dialects (Ionic-Attic; Aeolic; Doric; dialects of the north-west) through the reading and interpretation of archaic inscriptions. Literary languages will also be studied (Homeric language and the language of choral poetry) by examining texts of choral poetry and tragedy (Pindaro, Bacchylides, Sophocles).