09073 - Greek Grammar

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the general features related to the Indo-European linguistics, phonetics, historical morphology and syntax of ancient greek history, greek grammar theory's evolution; he/she knows and applies the theories and practices of translation.

Course contents

Special focus course ('corso monografico')

a) Greek grammar between diachrony and synchrony: an interpretation of Homeric Hymn to Apollo.

Core course ('parte istituzionale')

b) General rudiments of Greek grammar.

Seminar (optional, for students majoring in Greek, held in further meetings to be arranged)

c) Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo.

Lectures Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 13-15, Aula Forti (5.10.2015-16.12.2015).

Start date: 5.10.2015 (1st semester).

Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9-13 (at office).

Links: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/camillo.neri
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20152016/Corso_CamilloGG/

Readings/Bibliography

a) Notes from the lectures. One edition in the following list: Inni omerici, a c. di F. Càssola, Milano, Mondadori/Valla, 1975, 79-151; or Inni Omerici, a c. di G. Zanetto, Milano, Rizzoli, 1996, 96-129; or Inni omerici, a c. di Silvia Poli, introduzione di F. Ferrari, Torino, Utet, 2010, 129-181; or T.W.Allen-W.R. Halliday-E.E. Sikes, The Homeric Hymns, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1936, 20-42, 183-267; or M.L. West, Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypra. Lives of Homer, Cambridge, Mass.-London, Harvard University Press, 2003, 70-113; or any other edition with Greek text (and possibly with critical apparatus). Further bibliography will be provided during the lectures.

b) Notes from the lectures. One handbook in the folloqing list: L. Heilmann, Grammatica storica della lingua greca, Torino, Sei, 1963; P. Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris, Klincksieck, 1947; D. Pieraccioni, Morfologia storica della lingua greca, Messina-Firenze, D'Anna, 1975. See also E. Campanile-B. Comrie-C. Watkins, Introduzione alla lingua e alla cultura degli Indoeuropei, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010; F. Fanciullo, Introduzione alla linguistica storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.

c)  Lecture notes. For the Greek text, see: R. Pfeiffer, Callimachus, II. Hymni et epigrammata, Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1953, 5-113; M. Asper, Callimachos. Werke, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2004, 394-401. For an Italian translation: Callimaco. Inni Epigrammi Ecale, I, a c. di G.B. D'Alessio, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007 (4a ed.), 78-95; Callimaco. Inni. Chioma di Berenice, a c. di Valeria Gigante Lanzara, Milano, Garzanti, 1984, 12-23. Further readings will be recommended during the course.

Teaching methods

The lectures will be of two kinds: a) lectures given by the teacher, which will outline a concise historical morphology of the Greek language through the reading of original texts, translated and analysed in class; b) the reading of Homeric Hymn to Apollo (after some introductory lectures and the specimen analysis of some verses made by the teacher) will be carried out by the students themselves as presentations (which will test thus the abilities they have developed in the first part of the course).

All the material handed out in the lectures will be available afterwards on line at http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20152016/Corso_CamilloGG/

Assessment methods

A first assessment will be carried out to begin with in the individual presentations on language of Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 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. In particular, the students will be invited to deal with a particular chapter of the historical morphology of the Greek language (i.e. pronouns, aorist, etc.) through the analysis of the textual examples illustrated in class.
The students who will not have given a presentation to the class will be required to carry out a linguistic analysis of some verses in the viva voce.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, overhead projector, photocopied handouts.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/camillo.neri

Office hours

See the website of Camillo Neri