- Docente: Camillo Neri
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)
Learning outcomes
After completing this module the student knows thoroughly the
historical grammar of the Greek language, and is able to analyze
the main phenomena in relation to the Indo-European language
system. He/she is able to appreciate literary style and features of
the texts analyzed. He/she knows rules and tools of textual
criticism and dynamics of the history of the tradition, and can
place historically and evaluate critically literary documents
analyzed in relation to the original communication contexts and
ways of transmission. Reading ancient texts, he/she knows the main
trends of linguistic and literary-critical reflection of Greek
world and is able to evaluate its legacy in modern and contemporary
art and literature.
Course contents
Special focus course ('corso monografico')
a) To Be and To Appear: truth and deceitfulness in Simonides' fragments.
Core course ('parte istituzionale')
b) General rudiments of Greek Grammar.
Lectures Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 16-18, Aula Mansarda (21.11-21.12).
Links: http://www.classics.unibo.it
Readings/Bibliography
a) Notes from the lectures. C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età
arcaica e classica, Roma, Carocci, 2011, 117-126, 296-312,
376-381, 433-436; also O. Poltera, Simonides lyricus: Testimonia
und Fragmente, Bern, Schwabe, 2008; Greek Lyric, III
(Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others), ed. and
transl. by D.A. Campbell, Cambridge, Mass.-London, Loeb, 1991,
12s., 330-591; Poetae melici Graeci, ed. D. Page, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1962, 237-323; M.L. West, Iambi et elegi Graeci
ante Alexandrum cantati, II, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989
(2nd ed.), 114-137; B. Gentili-C. Prato, Simonides.
Elegiae. Addenda ad fragmenta quae in PEG parte altera edita
sunt, München-Leipzig, K.G. Saur, 2002, 183-233; L. Bravi,
Gli epigrammi di Simonide e le vie della tradizione, Roma,
Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 2006; O. Poltera, Le langage de Simonide.
Étude sur la tradition poétique et son renouvellement, Bern,
Lang, 1997. Further bibliography on the discussed texts will be
provided during the lectures.
Teaching methods
After some introductory lectures by the teacher and the specimen
analysis of selected texts, the lectures will be carried out by the
students themselves as presentations (which will test thus the
abilities they have developed through the course); the sessions
will have a seminar-like form and meant to be moments of real
common research, with the familiarisation and the use of the main
philological tools (traditional and data processing).
All the material handed out in the lectures will be available
afterwards on line at
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Organico/PDocenti/homeneri.htm
Assessment methods
A first assessment will be carried out to begin with in the
individual presentations and in the seminars, where the students
will be able auto-assess their learning.
The viva voce examination consists of a conversation in which the
teacher, through a series of questions, will test the theoretical
knowledge and the theoretical-practical methodologies as explained
in the lectures.
The students who will not have given a presentation to the class
will be required to carry out a linguistic analysis of some texts
in the viva voce.
Teaching tools
PC, videoprojector, overhead projector, photocopied handouts.
Links to further information
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Organico/profili/neri.html
Office hours
See the website of Camillo Neri