30352 - Philology and Greek Literature (LM)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Camillo Neri
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
  • Language: Italian

Course contents

A Core course (30 hours).

1. Scholarship and history of Greek scholarship: history of textual tradition, textual criticism, editorial technique, examples (Sappho) (10 hours).

 2. Greek language and history of the Greek language: historical grammar, from IE to Greek dialects, examples (Odyssea Book 5.) (10 hours).

3. Greek literature and history of Greek literature: from oral performances, to theater, to prose, to 'literature', to the opening to the Jewish and Roman world, to the late-ancient and Byzantine age, examples (Greek lyric, Thucydides, To Diognetus) (10 hours).

B. Special focus course (30 hours): Aeschylus, Agamemnon (vv. 1-257: prologue, parodos).

C. Critical investigations (personal).

Lessons timetable: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 13 (Aula II, Via Zamboni 32).
Start date: 3.2.2020-14.5.2020.

Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9-13.

Links: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/camillo.neri
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20192020/FLG2020/index.htm
Course presentation: https://prezi.com/wj2vb_s3wjfo/filologia-e-letteratura-greca-20192020/


Readings/Bibliography

A.1. Notes from the lectures. As for the reading of Sappho (fragments discussed during the lectures only): Eva-Maria Voigt, Sappho et Alcaeus. Fragmenta, Amsterdam 1971; C. Neri-F. Cinti, Saffo. Poesie, frammenti e testimonianze, Santarcangelo (RN) 2017. One book in the following listi: P. Maas, La critica del testo, trad. it. Roma 2017(4) (19511; ed. or. Leipzig 19271, 19502, 19573); G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Firenze 19522 (19341); R. Pfeiffer, Storia della filologia classica, I. Dalle origini alla fine dell'età ellenistica, trad. it. Napoli 1973 (ed. or. Oxford 1968); L.D. Reynolds-N.G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi. La tradizione dei classici dall'antichità ai tempi moderni, Roma-Padova 20164 (Padova 19691; ed. or. Oxford 1968); S. Timpanaro, La genesi del metodo del Lachmann, Torino-Novara 2010 (Firenze 19631, Padova 19812); M.L. West, Critica del testo e tecnica dell’edizione, Palermo 1991 (ed. or. Stuttgart 1973).

A.2. Notes from the lectures. Ad for the reading of Odissea Book 5.: J.B. Hainsworth-G.A. Privitera, Omero. Odissea, II. (Libri V-VIII), Milano 201512. One book in the following list: L. Heilmann, Grammatica storica della lingua greca, Torino 1963; P. Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris 1947; C. Neri (et all.), Μέθοδος. Corso di lingua e cultura greca. Grammatica, Firenze 2018.

A.3. Notes from the lectures. As for the reading of Greek lyric (Archilochus, Solon, Sappho, Bacchlylides only): C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età arcaica e classica, Roma 2011; E. Degani-G. Burzacchini, Lirici greci, Bologna 20052. As for Thucydides (5.85-111 only): R. Tosi-P. Rosa, Tucidide. La guerra del Peloponneso, Santarcangelo (RN) 2016; L. Canfora, Il dialogo dei Melii e degli Ateniesi, Venezia 20084 (19911). As for the To Diognetus: H.-I. Marrou-Maria Artioli, A Diogneto, Roma-Bologna 2008. A history of Greek literature of your choice (recommended: Antonietta Porro-W. Lapini, Letteratura greca, Bologna 2017).

B. Notes from the lessons. As for Agamemnon's text, translation and commentary: E. Medda, Eschilo. Agamennone, I-III, Roma 2017; P. Judet de La Combe, Eschyle. Agamemnon, Paris 2004; M.L. West, Aeschyli tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo, Stutgardiae 1990; J. Bollack-P. Judet de La Combe, Eschyle. Agamemnon, I/1. Prologue, Parodos anapestique, Parodos lyrique, Lille 1981; D. Page, Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoedias ed. D. P., Oxford 1972; E. Fraenkel, Aeschylus. Agamemnon, I-III, Oxford 19622 (19501); V. Di Benedetto-E. Medda-M.P. Pattoni-L. Battezzato, Eschilo, Orestea: Agamennone, Coefore, Eumenidi, Milano 20005. As for the critical analysis: M.L. West, Studies in Aeschylus, Stuttgart 1990.

C. Students are required to arrange with the teachers their own field of interest where to direct the reading (in translation) of some work of crucial importance in the Greek Literature as well as of some monographies (ex. if a student decides to examine the women-role in ancient Greece he will be required to read in translation the Euripides' Medea, Aristophanes' Thesmoforiazousai, Theocritus' XV Idyll, a selection of erotic epigrams and the reading ed. by G. Arrigoni). Basic notions of metrics, grammar and literary history are also required.

Students who do not attend the lessons are required to bring the same program as regards the institutional part and to define a personalized program, also in the light of their own interests, for the monographic part.

Teaching methods

The lectures on the core course will mostly have a frontal character, and the main concepts will be illustrated by examples taken from the texts in the program. The lectures on the special focus course will instead be carried out mostly as a seminar: the textual analysis and the discussion will be collective. Photocopies of the most important texts will be given out and students will be required to do their own researches in the Library of the Department.

All the material handed out in the lectures will be available afterwards on line at http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20192020/FLG2020/

Assessment methods

At the end of the course an oral examination will take place. The students are expected to expose their critical investigation and to show their skills in translating the core course's texts and in translating and commenting the special focus texts. The active participation of the students in the course is strongly recommended.

The maximum grade (30L) requires accurate and complete answers to all questions posed during the oral examination. The exam will be deemed to have been passed (with variable evaluation depending on the quality of the answers) if the candidate has answered in a precise and complete manner to most questions. As for the theoretical knowledge and the translation and exegesis of the texts, the metric is the following: outstanding: 30L; excellent: 28-30; good: 25-27; discrete: 22-24; sufficient: 18-21.

For deeply-rooted didactic conviction, I do not propose links to syllabi of questions, which would inevitably end up impoverishing the general preparation of the students. Since exams take place every fifteen days, students who want to experience the actual performance of an exam can attend - as spectators - the exam sessions, which are public.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, overhead projector, photocopied handouts.

Links to further information

http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20192020/FLG2020/

Office hours

See the website of Camillo Neri

SDGs

Quality education

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.