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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Good knowledge of both Ancient Greek and Latin
Objectives
Contents 1. The building of the theatre, the dramatic festivals, actors and choir, the organization of tragic and comic performance in Greece and Rome
2. Euripides’Troades: song and stage
Extended Syllabus The program involves the detailed study and a more critical review of the knowledge of the elements of ancient theatre already reached in the Laurea triennale. The reading and discussion in the class of an ancient theatrical text, in the specific case of Euripides’Troades, in its original language and in critical edition, are the occasion for a historical, cultural-historical and specifically dramaturgical analysis of an ancient text, illustrated by a scientific exegetical commentary.
Recommended Bibliography 1. A. Pickard-Cambridge, Le feste drammatiche di Atene, Firenze 1996 (La Nuova Italia); G. Chiarini-F. Mosetti-Casaretto, Introduzione al teatro latino, Milano 2004 (Mondadori Università)
2. Euripides. Troades, edited with Introduction and Commentary by David Kovacs, Oxford, University Press, 2018;
Useful consultation: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milano 2003 (Mondadori Università).
Further mandatory readings and other helpful information will be communicated during the semester and attached to the bureau’s door for students.
Teaching Methods The course consists in 42 hours of lecturing including various forms of formative and summative assessment.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The final assessment consists in one oral examination in which students will demonstrate their acquistion of the class content and the ability to analyze an ancient text. The grade scale goes from 1 to 30 cum laude: 1-17 insufficient, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 cum laude excellent.
Contacts/More Information Students can arrange an appointment by e-mail.