Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/02 (GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Curriculum
Fonti e strumenti per la storia dell'arte
Period
1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of ancient Greek language (high school level).
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, selected 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 and against the historical frame of ancient Greek literature.In addition, the student shall set with the teacher an ancient Greek text to be prepared, in original language, for the examination.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Lively interaction will be favored, also benefiting from paper and digital teaching material.
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. The examination will check the knowledge of:
1) topics and texts (in original) presented during the lectures;
2) history of the ancient Greek literature from the origins to the Imperial age (see Bibliography);
3) an ancient Greek literary text, in original language, to be set with the teacher: reading, and linguistic and content-related comment.
Further information
Teaching material available at Kiro (http://idcd.unipv.it/). To obtain further information please contact the teacher (fausto.montana@unipv.it).
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