14061 - Greek Language (1) (M-Z)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to know the structures of Ancient Greek language, the main features of its dialects, the major metres of Greek poetry, and to read the Greek texts included in the course contents.

Course contents

a) Special focus: reading of the Greek text of Iliad 6.

b) Core course: Greek historical grammar (with a special attention to morphology); reading of the Greek text of Aristotle’ Poetics.

Beginning of the course: 19 March 2024.

For attending the course, a complete knowledge of the structures of ancient Greek is required.

For students who are beginners of Ancient Greek: see the important news [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/valentina.garulli/avvisi/e4e2a949] .

Readings/Bibliography

a) For a critical edition of Iliad 6 see T.W. Allen, Homeri opera, I, Oxonii 1920.

For an Italian translation of Iliad 6 see either Omero. Iliade, a cura di F. Ferrari, Milano (Mondadori) 2018 or Omero. Iliade, a cura di G. Cerri, comm. di A. Gostoli, Milano (BUR) 2008.

For a general knowledge of the Homeric poetry and its main issues, read one of the following texts: S. Nannini, Omero l’autore necessario, Napoli (Liguori) 2010; F. Montanari, Introduzione a Omero, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura) 2013; A. Ercolani, Omero. Introduzione allo studio dell'epica greca, Roma (Carocci) 2016.

For the text and translation of Aristotle’ Poetics, see Aristotele. Poetica, intr. e note di D. Lanza, Milano 1994 (1987); Aristotele. Dell’arte poetica, a cura di C. Gallavotti, Milano 1990; Aristotele. Poetica, a cura di D. Guastini, Roma 2010.

b) The reading of one of the following handbooks is required: 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 C. Neri (et all.), Μέθοδος. Corso di lingua e cultura greca. Grammatica, Firenze, D’Anna, 2018.

Attending the course is crucial for learning how to prepare for the exam. Students who cannot attend the course are not required to use an alternative bibliography.If the students will ask for this, it will be possible to record the lessons on Panopto.

Teaching methods

During the 30 hours of the main course the teacher will read and comment the texts; the students will be provided with some hours of seminar, devoted to Aristotle’ Poetics.

Assessment methods

The oral examination will be an interview in which the teacher, through a series of questions, will test the theoretical knowledge and the theoretical-practical methodologies as explained during the lectures. In particular, the student will be invited to read one passage of each ancient text belonging to the course contents, to give a translation, a commentary and to highlight and comment the linguistic phenomena found in those passages.

As a result, the student may be asked to analyze from a linguistic point of view any Greek word found in the texts read. The candidate will pass the exam by proving to understand very well the Greek text, to have a firm knowledge of the structures of ancient Greek, and to be able to place them into a historical perspective. In this case, the evaluation ranges from 18 to 30 cum laude depending on how sure, well-founded, precise and rigorous will be the answers of the candidate.

The maximum grade (30L) requires accurate and complete answers to all questions posed during the oral examination. The exam will be deemed to have been passed (with variable evaluation depending on the quality of the answers) if the candidate has answered in a precise and complete manner to most questions. As for the theoretical knowledge and the translation and exegesis of the texts, the metric is the following: outstanding: 30L; excellent: 28-30; good: 25-27; discrete: 22-24; sufficient: 18-21.

Exam registration must be made through AlmaEsami at the following website: https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm

Teaching tools

PC, projector, PDF documents shared on Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Garulli