INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT THEATER

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LET017

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Clasical Philology

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BRAVI Luigi

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

For students of Lettere classiche: knowledge of both classical languages
For students of Linguaggi della musica e dello spettacolo: there are no prerequisites and the different program must be requested directly from the professor

Objectives

Instruction in Istituzioni di teatro antico contributes, by means of the study of Greek and Roman ancient theatre, of which an exemplary case is investigated, with the strict philological method in the analysis of classical texts to the the wider task of the course of study in Lettere: the approaching of students to the theoretical basis and methodological instruments, elements in the analysis of texts.
The expected learning outcomes are:
• knowledge of the theatrical phenomenon in the ancient world (origins, forms and historical development) and its most up-to-date analysis tools
• ability to connect knowledge to the analysis of the ancient theatrical text
• acquisition of independent judgment, which also enables to suggest interventions on the critical structure of the text
• communication skills of the contents through the specificities of the sector language

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’Hecuba

Extended Syllabus

The work program is divided into two parts. In the first part, the presentation of the contents concerning the forms, the places and the historical development of the ancient theatrical performance, through the literary and documentary sources that have been preserved: the festivals, the actors, the costumes, the choir, the audience
The second part is intended as an example of what was acquired as general data of the first part; the reading and discussion in the class of an ancient theatrical text in its original language, in the specific case of Euripides’Hecuba, are the occasion for a historical, cultural-historical and specifically dramaturgical analysis of an ancient text proposed in critical edition, 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. Hecuba, edited by Luigi Battezzato, Cambridge, University Press, 2018;
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.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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