GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE I

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Academic year
2015/2016
Teacher
ANGELA MARIA ANDRISANO
Credits
12
Didactic period
Primo Semestre
SSD
L-FIL-LET/02

Training objectives

The aim of the course is to improve the knowledge of Greek ancient language and texts of ancient authors.Students have to know how to translate passages of texts chosen and how to analyze them starting from text constitution.

Prerequisites

Greek ancient language (first level)

Course programme

Introduction to literary genres of ancient Greece: dialects, metres, style, performance. The text constitution and history of tradition of texts.
The interpretation of a text: The ancient commentaries (scholia) and the modern critical tradition.

Didactic methods

1. verification of students' knowledge;
2. introductory lessons to the study of an ancient literature;
3. lessons of historical grammar;
4. translation exercises;
5. laboratory of text analysis
5.

Learning assessment procedures

Ongoing oral questions during lessons and short written translations ; Final oral exam with a preliminary examination of knowledge of the language and translation skills and literary history questions.The exam program annually provides some minor variations

Reference texts


General bibliography
Aloni (a cura di), La lingua dei Greci, Roma, Carocci 2003 (o ristampe successive; R. Pierini – R. Tosi, Capire il greco, Pàtron Editore (Eikasmos, Sussidi, 3), Bologna 2014.

Omero Iliade, a cura di G. Cerri, Roma, Carocci 2010; Omero, Odissea, vol. III (libri IX-XII), Introduzione, testo e commento a cura di Alfred Heubeck, traduzione di G. Aurelio Privitera, Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 2003 (9 ed. rinnovata con un'appendice a cura di M. Cantilena).
P. Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris, Klincksieck 1961, or D. Pieraccioni, Morfologia storica della lingua greca, Messina-Firenze, D’Anna, 1975.
Lirici Greci. Antologia, a cura di E. Degani-G. Burzacchini, Bologna (Patron) 2005.

B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica: Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milano, Mondadori università, 2003

History of greek Literature by L. Canfora (Bari, Laterza, rist. 1996 e successive), or by D. DEL CORNO (Milano, Principato, 1988 e successive ristampe), or by F. FERRARI (Bologna, Cappelli, 1995 e successive), or by G. GUIDORIZZI (Milano, Mondadori, 2002