- Docente: Daniele Pellacani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philology, Literature and Classical Tradition (cod. 0970)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed at offering an outline of the classical tradition by analysing the forms and the models of the reception of the Latin classics especially in modern literature.
Course contents
Andromeda. Literature and art.
Readings from Euripides, Aristophanes, Pseudo-Apollodorus, Conon, Ovid, Manilius, Pontanus, Ariosto, Calderón de la Barca, Corneille, Laforgue.
These texts will be available among the online teaching materials; the full list of the texts will be given by the end of the course.
Readings/Bibliography
The texts read during the lessons will be available among the online teaching materials. Latin texts must be studied in Latin.
Texts:
Euripide, Andromeda (ed. Pagano 2010)
Aristofane, Tesmoforiazuse, 1001-1135
Conone, Racconti, 40
Ovidio, Metamorfosi, 4,607-803
Manilio, Astronomica, 5,518-630
Ps. Apollodoro, Biblioteca, 2,4,1-4
Pontano, Urania,4,201-322
Ariosto, Orlando furioso, X, 92-115; XI, 1-9;28-49.
Corneille, Andromeda
Laforgue, Perseo e Andromeda, o Il più felice dei tre
Readings:
L. Gentilli, Mito e spettacolo nel teatro cortigiano di Calderón de la Barca. Fortunas de Andromeda y Perseo, Roma 1991, pp. 91-131 (§ 4).
L. Landolfi, Andromeda: intreccio di modelli e punti di vista in Manilio, "Giornale italiano di Filologia" 45, 1993, pp. 171-194.
G. Maselli, Il salvataggio di Andromeda come schema narrativo: Manilio, Pontano, Ariosto, "Annali della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature straniere. Bari", 15, 2001, pp. 153-162
V. Pagano, L'Andromeda di Euripide, Alessandria 2010, pp. 1-39; 221-237.
O. Taplin, Pots and Plays, Los Angeles 2007, pp. 174-185.
A.D. Trendall - T.B.L. Webster, Illustrations of Greek Drama, London 1971, pp. 63-65; 78-82.
Teaching methods
Lectures in class; Seminars (where individual research will be discussed and essays and tests corrected).
Assessment methods
Viva voce examination, which will test:
- knowledge of the literary history,
- ability of understanding and set the studied texts in their historical and literary environment
- main linguistics (phonetics, morphology and syntax), through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the programme
Teaching tools
Online teaching materials: (see webpage above)
Office hours
See the website of Daniele Pellacani