- Docente: Renzo Tosi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Humanities (cod. 8850)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
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'):Greek literature and Peripathetic school; Clearchus' fragments
B- 1. Comprehension and translation of Greek classical texts
2. Anthology of Greek Liric Poetry, Thuc ii, a tragedy or comedy.
3. Greek ancient literature; Secundary litterature: one of the listed books
Lessons timetable: Monday Tuesday Thursday 9-11 (Aula IV Via Zamboni 38). Beginning of the lessons: February 6th, 2017, 9 a.m. The lessons will be carried on all during the second semester. Optional seminars will be arranged between teachers and students. A special course for beginners will be organized in the first semester.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Notes from the lessons. Students who will not attend lessons must translate Aristotle's Poetics, students who will take a 6 credits examination, don't have to prepare any special focus course. The following title is recommended: R.Pierini - R. Tosi, Capire il greco, Bologna (Pàtron) 2013.
As for the texts are recommended the following titles: Tucidide, Storie, trad. P. Rosa, Siena (Barbera) 2015, as for the anthology of greek licris, students must study the fragments edited in Lirici greci : antologia / a cura di Enzo Degani e Gabriele Burzacchini. - 2. ed. / aggiornamento bibliografico a cura di Massimo Magnani. - Bologna (Pàtron) 2005. As for the secundary litterature, the following titles are listed (if a student wants to read a not listed book must agree upon it with the teacher): Sotera Fornaro, Antigone. Storia di un mito, Roma (Carocci) 2012, 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; E.R.Dodds, I Greci e l'irrazionale, nuova ed. italiana a c. di R.Di Donato, Milano (Sansoni) 2003; B.Powell, Omero, Bologna (Il Mulino) 2006, G.Mastromarco - P.Totaro, Storia del teatro greco, Milano (Edumond le Monnier) 2008, B. Zimmermann, La commedia greca. Dalle origini all'età ellenistica, Roma (Carocci) 2010, V. Di Benedetto, Euripide. Teatro e società, Torino (Einaudi) 1971, C.Calame, I Greci e l'eros, Roma-Bari (Laterza) 2010, F. Condello, Elettra. Storia di un mito, Roma (Carocci) 2011, G. Ugolini - D. Lanza, Storia della filologia classica, Roma (Carocci) 2016, L. Canfora, Tucidide. La menzogna, la colpa, l'esilio, Roma-Bari (Laterza) 2016. W. Lapini, L’epistola a Erodoto e il Bios di Epicuro in Diogene Laerzio, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura) 2015.
Teaching methods
The lessons will be carried out as a seminar and students will face exegetical problems of Greek texts. Further lessons will be arranged with students.
Assessment methods
An oral examination. As for B1, the student must recognize the structure of a short Greek phrase. The final mark range is from 30 cum laude to 18: the teacher will evaluate the student's knowledge of the authors of Greek Literature and his methodological skills useful for textual analysis.
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 the historical 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
http://www.classics.unibo.it/CLASSICS/
Office hours
See the website of Renzo Tosi