30066 - History of the Classic Thought (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Simonetta Nannini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)

Learning outcomes

The student will be acquainted with concepts, and literary conventions of Greek and Latin Literature, from the archaic age onwards, with special attention to traditional, rhetorical patterns

Course contents

Aristotle as literary critic and the Homeric scholia 

Readings/Bibliography

Translations of the Poetics of Aristotle, and 

2 of these books:

Pfeiffer, Storia della filologia classica: dalle origini alla fine dell'età ellenistica, Napoli 1973

Halliwell, The Poetics of Aristotle, London 1987

Rorty (ed), Essays on Aristotle's Poetics, Princeton 1992

Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic thought in Ancient Greece, Cambridge 2010

A. Laird (a cura di), Ancient Literary criticism, Oxford 2006

G. Guidorizzi, Il mondo letterario greco, Torino 2000

Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic thought in Ancient Greece, Cambridge 2010

R. Nunlist, The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary criticism in Greek Scholia, Groningen 1987

A. Laird (a cura di), Ancient Literary criticism, Oxford 2006

G. Guidorizzi, Il mondo letterario greco, Torino 2000

Teaching methods

Classroom sessions and seminars

Assessment methods

Oral test (without translation of Greek texts). It is required a close, critical investigation of the topics examined at lesson, 

of the texts proposed during the course, and of those selected.

   The students who will prove to achieve a thorought and complete knowledge of the topics discussed during the lessons will gain excellent marks; the students who will not prove to achieve such a knowledge will gain good marks or a fail, depending on the importance of the subject.

Teaching tools

texts and materials about the authors which will be circulated at lesson

Office hours

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