2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

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

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

LETTERE ANTICHE

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

BELTRAMETTI ANNA ALBERTINA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

The course is aimed at first-year students. Attendance requires the ability to read texts in their original language.

The course will focus on some aspects of Greek prose between VI and IV century B.C.

Comments and analyses of the texts will shed light onto the history of the Greek thought in historiography, philosophy, and politics.

The course is divided into three parts:

a) Herodotus, Historiae V
b) Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine
c) Plato, Seventh Letter

In order to prepare the final exam, students have to attend the tutoring classes, which consist in written exercises concerning texts by the authors studied in the monographic course.

For the final exam, which is oral, students have to be able to read the texts mentioned above in their original language, being well acquainted with the Greek Literature from its origin up to the IV century BC (included), in particular with the literature in prose.

Lectures

Besides the general textbooks, a more specific bibliography will be suggested during the course.

By oral examination.Written tests, done during the tutoring classes, will be used for guidance only.