Unit GREEK LITERATURE II
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005959
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Donato Loscalzo
- Teachers
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- Donato Loscalzo
- Hours
- 36 ore - Donato Loscalzo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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) Reading of archaic Greek lyric poets and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex - Reference texts
- A) G. A. Privitera - R. Pretagostini, Storia e forme della letteratura greca, I - II, Einaudi, Milano 1997., oppure A. Porro. - W. Lapini, Letteratura greca, Il Mulino, Bologna 2017.
B) G. Perrotta - B. Gentili,- C. Catenacci, Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica, D'Anna, Messina-Firenze 2007; Sofocle, Edipo re, a cura di L. Correale, Feltrinelli, Milano 2013 - 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.