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
See the website of Simonetta Nannini