- Docente: Renzo Tosi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0264)
Learning outcomes
The students are expected to acquire a specific knowledge of the authors of Greek Literature as well as the methodological skills useful for textual analysis
Course contents
A- Special focus course ('corso monografico'): Problems of the Thucydidean text
B- 1. Euripides' Bacchae
2.A book from Homer's Poems
3. Plato's Symposion
Lessons timetable: Wednesday 17-19 (Aula I, Via Zamboni 38); Thursday, Friday 11-13 (Aula IV Via Zamboni 38). Beginning of the lessons: Oktober 10th 2007, 5 p.m., Aula I, Via Zamboni 38. The lessons will be carried on all during the second semester. Optional seminars will be arranged between teachers and students.
Readings/Bibliography
Recommended readings:
A. Notes from the lessons. As for Thucydides L. Canfora, I-II, Roma-Bari (Laterza) 1986 is recommended. Students who will not attend lessons must translate two Thucydides' books; students who will take a 5 credits examination, don't have to prepare any special focus course.
B. Euripide, Le Baccanti, a c. di V. Di Benedetto, Milano (BUR) 2004; Platone, Simposio, a c. di V. Di Benedetto e F. Ferrari, Milano (BUR) 1997; Omero, Odissea, a c. di M.G. Ciani, E. Avezzù, Venezia (Marsilio) 1994.Teaching methods
Almost 20 lessons will be dedicated to the history of classical scholarship from the beginning until now; 10 lessons will be dedicated to literary papirology. The rest of the lessons will be carried out as a seminar and students will face exegetical problems of the text of Thucydides. Further lessons will be arranged with students.
Assessment methods
An oral examination and eventually a pre-examination focused on the history of Greek literature
Teaching tools
PC, Photocopies of texts
Prerequisites:
Basic notions of metrics, grammar, are required. THe following texts are recommended: as for metrics M.C.Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta, Bologna (Cappelli) 1995; as for textual criticism M.L.West, Critica del testo e tecnica dell'edizione, Palermo (L'Epos) 1991; as for translation L.Stupazzini – R.Tosi – P.Rosa, Grammatica di una civiltà, III: Capire il greco, Bologna (Cappelli) 2002; as for Greek literary history one of the following volumes: F.Montanari (Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1998), G.A.Privitera - R.Pretagostini (Torino, Einaudi, 1997), L.E.Rossi (Firenze, Le Monnier, 1995); as for History of classical scholarship: L.Lehnus, Appunti di storia degli studi classici, Milano, CUEM, 2002, T. Dorandi, .Nell'officina dei classici, Roma (Carocci) 2007
One of these readings are also recommended:
H.Fränkel, Poesia e filosofia della Grecia arcaica, Bologna (Il Mulino) 1997; M.Di Marco, La tragedia greca, Roma (Carocci) 2000, AA.VV., La civiltà greca, a c. di M.Vetta, Roma (Carocci) 2001; R.Di Donato, Hierà, Pisa (Edizioni Plus) 2001; E.R.Dodds, I Greci e l'irrazionale, nuova ed. italiana a c. di R.Di Donato, Milano (Sansoni) 2003; Luciano Canfora, Tucidide tra Atene e Roma, Roma (Salerno Editrice) 2005; B.Powell, Omero, Bologna (Il Mulino) 2006, A. Ercolani, Introduzione a Omero, Roma (Carocci) 2006
The following texts are also recommended in order to acquire a deeper knowledge in the field of Grammar: P.Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris (Klincksieck) 1961 e D.Pieraccioni, Morfologia storica della lingua greca, Messina-Firenze (D'Anna) 1975.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Renzo Tosi