Enrollment year
2014/2015
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/02 (GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF MUSICOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Course
HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (26/09/2016 - 20/01/2017)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Knowledge of ancient Greek language.
Learning outcomes
It provides the knowledge of the diachronic development and the formal features of ancient Greek literature. Its aims are reading, understanding, analysis and interpretation of original texts of ancient Greek literary civilization.
Course contents
“Trygodìa”. Aristophanes’ renewal of the poetics of comedy.
By reading passages of Aristophanean comedies, chosen mainly from parabaseis, the most significant features of Aristophanes’ reform of the comic genre will be analysed in depth, taking into due account the historical context of classical Athens at its best.
The examination will check the knowledge of:
1. topics and texts (in original) discussed during the lessons;
2. history of the ancient Greek literature from the origins to the Imperial age (see Bibliography);
3. an ancient Greek literary work, in original language, to be established with the teacher.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Reccomended or required readings
For the history of Greek literature from the beginnings to the imperial age (point 2 of the program), the recommended handbook, in Italian, is: F. MONTANARI-F. MONTANA, Storia della letteratura greca. Dalle origini all’età imperiale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
For the choice of the text in Greek (point 3 of the program), as well as for further bibliography, specific instructions will be provided during the lectures or can be obtained by e-mail (fausto.montana@unipv.it).
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Further information
To obtain any further information please contact the teacher (fausto.montana@unipv.it).
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