- Docente: Simonetta Nannini
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Philosophy (cod. 0957)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
The student will become acquainted with philological methods applyed to many literary texts , regarded within their historical and social background.
Course contents
Greek literature and the Roman Empire:
mod. a) 30 ore (6cfu): Plutarch between Classical past and a new cultural status of the present
mod. b 30 h. (6cfu): Lucian and the satirical identity
Readings/Bibliography
1) Texts with translation of The Life of Anthony, Plutarch's De audiendis poetis, Lucian, True History
2) History of Greek Literature: from the hellenistic age to the second century A. D.
3) The reading of one of following books is required (further readings will be recommended during the course):
J. Bompaire Lucien écrivain: imitation et création, Paris 1958
P. Desideri, Saggi su Plutarco e la sua fortuna, Firenze 2012
THunter-Russell, Plutarch: How to study Poetry, Cambridge 2011.
A. Peretti, Luciano: un intellettuale greco contro Roma, Firenze 1946
Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire. The Politicsof Imitation, Oxford 2001
Teaching methods
Classroom sessions and seminars
Assessment methods
Oral exam (with test of translation only for 12cfu, a+b; the knowledge of Greek language is not required for 6 cfu).
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
Texts and materials about ancient and modern literature will be circulated at lesson
Office hours
See the website of Simonetta Nannini