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B019103 - GREEK LANGUAGE LABORATORY 2
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2018 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Third year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
-
Credits
3
Teaching Hours
18
Teaching Term
22/02/2021 ⇒ 28/05/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B019103 - LABORATORIO DI LINGUA GRECA 2
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES
Curriculum LETTERE ANTICHE
B019103 - LABORATORIO DI LINGUA GRECA 2
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES
Curriculum LETTERE ANTICHE
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The prosody of Greek poetry; the most important metrical forms of ancient Greece; the peculiarities of Homeric language.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
M. L. West, Homeri Odyssea, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter 2017; M. C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna, Cappelli 1997. G. Devoto - A. Nocentini, La lingua omerica e il dialetto miceneo, Firenze, Sansoni 1975.
Learning Objectives
Acquiring the ability to understand the Homeric language and the metrical structure of the most important Greek verse forms, reading them correctly and fluently.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Greek language in its basic form as usually taught in both high school and first steps at the University (i.e. Attic dialect and koinè).
Teaching Methods
Lectures and exercises: the students will often be asked to read and translate.
Further information
No need to have already studied Greek metrics.
Type of Assessment
Questions, discussion and exercitations during the class; written examination at the end, consisting in the linguistic analysis of a Homeric passage and metrical scansion of dactylic and iambic texts.
Course program
The Homeric language: its basic features and its peculiarities. Linguistic analysis of Odyssey, book 10. Greek prosody. The most important Greek verse forms: dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, iambic trimeter, choliamb, trochaic tetrameter, anapaests, dactylo-epitrites, Sapphic stanza, Alcaic stanza, Asclepiadeans.