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CULTURE AND TRADITION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of Greek and Latin languages is NOT required.
Objectives
Contents The course aims to illustrate the essential lines of development of Greek culture and literature, and to trace certain avenues of their reception in the literary and artistic tradition down to the modern and contemporary age, through the reading and analysis of literary texts.
Extended Syllabus Knowledge of the following literary genres and authors is required, together with their historical reference context:
- epic (Homer and the Homeric question; Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days);
- iambus and archaic elegy;
- monodic and choral lyric;
- historiography of the classical age (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon);
- tragedy and comedy;
- philosophy of the classic age (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle);
- oratory (Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes);
- Hellenistic poetry (Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, greek epigrams);
- philosophy of the hellenistic age (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynism, Skepticism);
- Polybius;
- New Testament;
- Plutarch and Lucian.
Knowledge of the following ancient works is also required:
- Homer, Iliad book 6;
- Framments of greek lyric poets (selected passages);
- Plato, Socrates' Apology;
- Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos or Euripides', Medea;
- Catullus, translation of Callimachus' Coma Berenices;
- Theocritus 1.
Recommended Bibliography One of the following manuals of the history of Greek literature: L.E. Rossi, Letteratura greca, Le Monnier, Firenze 1995 (or subsequent editions); G.A. Privitera - R. Pretagostini, Storie e forme della letteratura greca, Einaudi, Torino 1997; G. Guidorizzi, Letteratura greca. Da Omero al secolo VI d.C., Mondadori, Milano 2002; A. Porro - W. Lapini - C. Laffi, Ktema es aiei. La letteratura greca, Loescher Editore, Torino 2017; A. Porro - W. Lapini, Letteratura greca, Il Mulino, Bologna 2017.
- G. Cerri, Omero. Iliade, Rizzoli, Milano 1996.
-G. Reale, Platone. Apologia di Socrate, Milano 1996, Rusconi Libri.
- B. Gentili - C. Catenacci, I poeti del canone lirico nella Grecia antica, Feltrinelli, Milano 2010.
- F. Condello, Sofocle. Edipo Re, Siena 2009 oppure V. Di Benedetto-E. Cerbo, Euripide. Medea, Milano 1997.
- G.B. Pighi, Il libro di Gaio Valerio Catullo e i frammenti dei Poeti nuovi, Torino 1996.
- B.M. Palumbo Stracca, Teocrito, Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 1999.
Teaching Methods Teacher up front lessons with student participation.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Semi-structured written exam preparatory to the oral and oral exam.