Greek Literature (advanced)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The advanced course of Greek Literature aims to offer students the opportunity to further expand the critical knowledge of texts, themes and problems of Greek literature from its origins up to the Late Antiquity and Early Byzantine era.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students are expected to demonstrate an autonomous and complete knowledge of themes, authors and genres covered in the course, in their historical and cultural contexts: forms, chronological development, geographical location, fortune.
Skills
As learning outcomes, students are also expected to be able to analyse texts in their linguistic and dialectal aspects, in their stylistic and rhetorical levels, in their metric structures. Students are also expected to be acquainted with the main bibliographical and research tools
Students are expected to demonstrate an autonomous and complete knowledge of themes, authors and genres covered in the course, in their historical and cultural contexts: forms, chronological development, geographical location, fortune.
Skills
As learning outcomes, students are also expected to be able to analyse texts in their linguistic and dialectal aspects, in their stylistic and rhetorical levels, in their metric structures. Students are also expected to be acquainted with the main bibliographical and research tools
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Greek Historiography from the classical age to Byzantium.
(60 hrs 9 cfu)
Part A (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from Thucydides.
Part B (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from Herodotus.
Part C (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from the Chronicle of George the Monk.
Non-attending students must agree on the programme (consisting of additional readings and critical essays) with Prof. Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.
(60 hrs 9 cfu)
Part A (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from Thucydides.
Part B (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from Herodotus.
Part C (20 hrs, 3 cfu): Reading and commentary of selected passages from the Chronicle of George the Monk.
Non-attending students must agree on the programme (consisting of additional readings and critical essays) with Prof. Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.
Prerequisites for admission
The advanced course in Greek Literature is intended for students in the Antiquarian curriculum of the three-year degree course in Literature who have already taken the Greek Literature examination (12 cfu) and who wish to deepen their study of the subject in a second year.
Knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature at university level is therefore required.
Knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature at university level is therefore required.
Teaching methods
In addition to traditional face-to-face lectures, alternative teaching methods will be experimented with that involve the active intervention of the students, with work that will be presented in the classroom following an exegetical scheme that will be previously presented and discussed.
These teaching methods are aimed at structuring and encouraging the autonomous analysis of literary texts in their complexity through the immediate use of the tools necessary to produce analysis of the text, commentary, translation and in-depth bibliography.
Texts, iconographic materials and documentation will be available on the My-Ariel platform.
Attendance at the course is strongly recommended.
These teaching methods are aimed at structuring and encouraging the autonomous analysis of literary texts in their complexity through the immediate use of the tools necessary to produce analysis of the text, commentary, translation and in-depth bibliography.
Texts, iconographic materials and documentation will be available on the My-Ariel platform.
Attendance at the course is strongly recommended.
Teaching Resources
1. Critical reference edition for part A: Thucydidis Historiae, ed. G.B. Alberti, I-III, Romae,1972-200.
2. Critical edition reference for part B: Polybius, Historiae, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, Stuttgartiae, 1905.
3. Critical reference edition for part C: Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. De Boor - P. Wirth, I-II, Stuttgartiae, 1978 (1904).
4. Lecture notes
5. Further in-depth bibliographical indications will be given in class, together with useful references for autonomous bibliographical research and scientific study of the proposed texts.
PLEASE NOTE: all materials and critical editions that are difficult to find will be made available to students on the My-Ariel website.
2. Critical edition reference for part B: Polybius, Historiae, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, Stuttgartiae, 1905.
3. Critical reference edition for part C: Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. De Boor - P. Wirth, I-II, Stuttgartiae, 1978 (1904).
4. Lecture notes
5. Further in-depth bibliographical indications will be given in class, together with useful references for autonomous bibliographical research and scientific study of the proposed texts.
PLEASE NOTE: all materials and critical editions that are difficult to find will be made available to students on the My-Ariel website.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination is an oral test aimed at ascertaining that the student has read the passages in the syllabus in the original and is able to translate and comment on them with critical autonomy, relating them to the underlying literary issues, clearly stating the contents and competently using the specialist vocabulary. The work presented in the classroom contributes to the final assessment using the same criteria, with particular emphasis on critical reasoning skills.
The assessment is in 30ths.
The assessment is in 30ths.
L-FIL-LET/02 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Martinelli Tempesta Stefano
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