2017/2018

2018/2019

DM270

L-FIL-LET/02 (GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (25/02/2019 - 05/06/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

BELTRAMETTI ANNA ALBERTINA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
CERBO ESTER - 6 ECTS

-Basic knowledge of Greek dialectology
-Knowledge of Greek literature from the Archaic period to the first century AD C.
-Knowledge of main recitative metres (dactylic exameter, elegiac, iambic trimeter, trochaic tetrameter)

-MODULE A) to develop the skills of reading and analysis of lyric texts, recognizing the rhythmic structures and their semantic value.
-MODULE B) to develop the ability to identify the distinctive features of the language and the style of Herodotus and Plato
EXPECTED RESULTS:
-to give an extensive knowledge in the field of lyric metres of greek drama; to give the students ability in reading the lyric of tragedy and understanding the interaction between metric code and semantic code.
-to provide students with the tools for textual, lexical, syntactic and stylistic analysis of two Greek prose authors: Herodotus as heir of the Ionian culture and the origin of Attica historiography; Plato as a witness of the spoken Attic dialect and inventor of the philosophical vocabulary.

The course consists of two modules:
-MODULE A: The lyric of Greek tragedy. Structures, meters and rhythms

-MODULE B: Literary Languages, Herodotus and Plato:
-Reading with linguistic and rhetorical analysis of steps chosen from the books I, V and VIII of the Histories of Herodotus
-Reading with linguistic and rhetorical analysis of passages chosen by the Apology of Socrates and by the book V of the Republic of Plato.

lectures, interactive and practical sessions, analysis and comment of texts

MODULE A):
-M.C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta, Bologna 19972 (or: M. Lenchantin de Gubernatis, Manuale di prosodia e metrica greca, Milano 1978)
-R. Pretagostini, Scritti di metrica, ed. by M.S. Celentano, Roma 2011

MODULE B):
General overwiew:
- A. Meillet, Lineamenti di storia della lingua greca, trad. it. Torino, Einaudi, 19812
or
- O. Hoffmann-A. Debrunner-A. Scherer, Storia della lingua greca, trad. it. Napoli, Macchiaroli, 1969
-For the study of individual authors:
- A.C. Cassio (a cura di), Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2008
-C. Schick, Studi sui primordi della prosa greca, «Archivio Glottologico Italiano» 40 (1955), pp. 89-135.
- C. Schick, Appunti per una storia della prosa greca. 3. La lingua di Erodoto, «Atti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Memorie della Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche», Serie VIII, vol. VII, 7 (1956), pp.345-395.
-M. Untersteiner, La lingua di Erodoto, Bari, Adriatica editrice, 1949

-Reading, translation and linguistic commentary of the texts analyzed during the course.
-Metrical analysis and comment of a tragic song at the option of the student
-Metrical analysis and reading of a lyric text chosen by the teacher

Further readings and study materials will be provided during the course