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B026256 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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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 - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/02 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
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Mutuality
Course teached as:
B020904 - LETTERATURA GRECA 1
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES
Curriculum LETTERE ANTICHE
B020904 - LETTERATURA GRECA 1
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES
Curriculum LETTERE ANTICHE
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The Cyclops from Homer to the Hellenistic age. Analysis of the main texts of Greek literature dealing with the Polyphemus myth: Od. 9, Euripides' Cyclops, Theoc. 6 and 11.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
M. L. West, Homeri Odyssea, Berlin-Boston, W. de Gruyter 2017, pp. 175-200; J. Diggle, Euripidis fabulae, I, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1984, pp. 1-29; A. S. F. Gow, Bucolici Graeci, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1952, pp. 27-29 and 44-47.
Learning Objectives
To gain a solid knowledge of Greek literary language and of Greek literature of the archaic and classical age. To learn a method of philological analysis of Greek poetical texts, investigating their textual problems, their formal features and their meaning in literary history.
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
Traditional lectures, including translation of Greek texts and commenting on them; frequent practice of translation from Greek by the students.
Further information
For the final exam, a sound knowledge of Greek metre is needed. Those who need to improve their skills are welcome to the "laboratorio di greco 2".
Type of Assessment
Questions, discussion and exercitations from time to time during the class; oral examination at the end, aiming to test the student’s competence in both Greek language and literary, historical, cultural aspects of the ancient texts.
Course program
(a) The Cyclops, from Homer to the Hellenistic age
(introduction on literary history; reading, translation and commentary of the following texts)
• Odyssey, book 9.
Reference ed.: M. L. West, Homeri Odyssea, Berlin-Boston, W. de Gruyter 2017, pp. 175-200.
Cf. also: A. Heubeck, G. A. Privitera, Omero. Odissea, III: libri IX-XII, Milano, Mondadori/Valla 1983 (and later reprints; now also in a cheaper paperback ed.).
• Euripides, Cyclops.
Reference ed.: J. Diggle, Euripidis fabulae, I, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1984, pp. 1-29.
Cf. also: R. Hunter - R. Lämmle, Euripides. Cyclops, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020; M. Napolitano, Euripide. Ciclope, Venezia, Marsilio 2003 (and later reprints).
• Theocritus, idylls 6 and 11.
Reference ed.: A. S. F. Gow, Bucolici Graeci, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1952, pp. 27-29 e 44-47.
Cf. also: R. Hunter, Theocritus. A Selection. Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1999; B. M. Palumbo Stracca, Teocrito. Idilli ed epigrammi, Milano, BUR 1993 (and later reprints).
(b) Examination program
(i) A sound knowledge of Greek literary history from Homer to the 6th c. BC.
Suggested handbooks: A. Lesky, Storia della letteratura greca, I, trad. it., Milano, Il Saggiatore 1962 (and later reprints; last revised ed. in one volume, 2012); F. Montanari - F. Montana, Storia della letteratura greca, I, Roma, Storia e Letteratura 2017 (the editio maior in two volumes, not the thinner single-volume one published by Laterza); otherwise, a good high school handbook.
(ii) Metrical reading, Italian translation and commentary of Od. 9, Euripides' Cyclops (metrical reading mandatory for recited sections; optional for lyric passages), Theoc. 6 and 11. The entire works, not just the portions of them we read during the class.
(iii) Reading of the Greek text, Italian translation and brief commentary of the following works.
• A book of the Iliad.
Reference ed.: M. L. West, Homeri Ilias, I-II, Stuttgart-München-Leipzig, Teubner/K. G. Saur (now W. de Gruyter) 1998-2000.
• Plato, one of these dialogues: Crito, Symposium, Phaedrus.
Reference ed.: J. Burnet, Platonis opera, I-II, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900-1901 (and later reprints); or, for the Crito, E. A. Duke & al., Platonis opera, I, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1995, pp. 65-84.
• Iambic and elegiac poets of the archaic age (all the texts in the edition cited below).
Reference ed.: E. Degani - G. Burzacchini, Lirici greci, II ed. con aggiornamento bibliografico a cura di M. Magnani, Bologna, Pàtron 2005, pp. 1-119.
(introduction on literary history; reading, translation and commentary of the following texts)
• Odyssey, book 9.
Reference ed.: M. L. West, Homeri Odyssea, Berlin-Boston, W. de Gruyter 2017, pp. 175-200.
Cf. also: A. Heubeck, G. A. Privitera, Omero. Odissea, III: libri IX-XII, Milano, Mondadori/Valla 1983 (and later reprints; now also in a cheaper paperback ed.).
• Euripides, Cyclops.
Reference ed.: J. Diggle, Euripidis fabulae, I, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1984, pp. 1-29.
Cf. also: R. Hunter - R. Lämmle, Euripides. Cyclops, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020; M. Napolitano, Euripide. Ciclope, Venezia, Marsilio 2003 (and later reprints).
• Theocritus, idylls 6 and 11.
Reference ed.: A. S. F. Gow, Bucolici Graeci, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1952, pp. 27-29 e 44-47.
Cf. also: R. Hunter, Theocritus. A Selection. Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1999; B. M. Palumbo Stracca, Teocrito. Idilli ed epigrammi, Milano, BUR 1993 (and later reprints).
(b) Examination program
(i) A sound knowledge of Greek literary history from Homer to the 6th c. BC.
Suggested handbooks: A. Lesky, Storia della letteratura greca, I, trad. it., Milano, Il Saggiatore 1962 (and later reprints; last revised ed. in one volume, 2012); F. Montanari - F. Montana, Storia della letteratura greca, I, Roma, Storia e Letteratura 2017 (the editio maior in two volumes, not the thinner single-volume one published by Laterza); otherwise, a good high school handbook.
(ii) Metrical reading, Italian translation and commentary of Od. 9, Euripides' Cyclops (metrical reading mandatory for recited sections; optional for lyric passages), Theoc. 6 and 11. The entire works, not just the portions of them we read during the class.
(iii) Reading of the Greek text, Italian translation and brief commentary of the following works.
• A book of the Iliad.
Reference ed.: M. L. West, Homeri Ilias, I-II, Stuttgart-München-Leipzig, Teubner/K. G. Saur (now W. de Gruyter) 1998-2000.
• Plato, one of these dialogues: Crito, Symposium, Phaedrus.
Reference ed.: J. Burnet, Platonis opera, I-II, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900-1901 (and later reprints); or, for the Crito, E. A. Duke & al., Platonis opera, I, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1995, pp. 65-84.
• Iambic and elegiac poets of the archaic age (all the texts in the edition cited below).
Reference ed.: E. Degani - G. Burzacchini, Lirici greci, II ed. con aggiornamento bibliografico a cura di M. Magnani, Bologna, Pàtron 2005, pp. 1-119.