14061 - Greek Language (1)

Learning outcomes

The student will become acquainted with the literary texts of the  course of lessons, with Greek language dialects and metrics.

Course contents

1) Aristotle, Poetics
2) Homer: Iliad VI ( metrics, historical morphology and syntax)

3) Historical Morphology
4) Greek Literature: Homeric Question
5) A thorough  knowledge of one essay on Homer or Aristotle (cf. Bibliography)

For students who cannot attend the course, are valid points 1-4; as regards point 5, they are expected to read 2 of the essays suggested (see Bibliography)

Readings/Bibliography

1) Halliwell, The Poetics of Aristotle, London 1987

2) Homer, Iliad VI

3) 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

4) Nagy, Homeric Questions, "TAPhA" 122 (1992), 17-60

5) The reading of one (or two, if you cannot attend the course) of the following texts is required:

1) Aceti-Leuzzi-Pagani, Eroi dell'Iliade. Personaggi e strutture narrative, 2009 

2) Aloni, Da Pilo a Sigeo. poemi, cantori e scrivani al tempo dei tiranni, 2006 

3) Ford, Homer: the Poetry of the Past, 1992 

4) Griffin, Homer on life and death, 1980 

5) Lord, The Singer of Tales,  

6) Porter, Classical Pasts, Princeton 2003

7) Ercolani, Omero. Introduzione allo studio dell'epica greca, Carocci 2016

8) Donini, La tragedia e la vita. Saggi sulla Poetica di Aristotele, Alessandria 2004

9) Halliwell, The Aesthetics of Mimesis, Princeton-Oxford 2002

10) M. Vegetti-F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele. Quindici lezioni, PBE 2016.

Teaching methods

 Classroom sessions (30 h., devoted to text and exegesis of Aristotle's Poetics) + seminars (20 h., Prof. V. Garulli), applied to Homeric text, devoted to morphology phonetic and syntax.

The students are also invited to take part in several lectures and seminars given by professors of other Universities

Assessment methods

1) Metrics (Exameter)
2) Translation (20 vv. of  Homerus; a passage of Aristotle, with examination of historic morphology and syntax)
3) Literature: Homeric Question
4) Critical account on the text selected.

It is required a close, critical investigation of the texts examined at lesson and of those proposed during the course. The students who will prove to achieve a thorought and complete knowledge of the topics discussed during the lessons will gain excellent marks; the students who will not prove to achieve such a knowledge will gain good marks or a fail, depending on the importance of the subject.

Teaching tools

 

materials about the authors will be circulated at lesson

 

Office hours

See the website of Simonetta Nannini