- Docente: Giovanna Alvoni
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Arts (cod. 0958)
Course contents
1. Basic elements of phonetics, morphology and syntax of the Greek language.
2. Study of the lexicon of the Greek language on the base of the roots and of their results in the modern languages.
3. Translations from Greek into Italian. Some Aesopic fables will be read.
Beginning of the course: 5.X.2009.
Lessons: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 15-17, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, via Zamboni 32, 40126 Bologna, 3rd fl.
Readings/Bibliography
1. The following handbooks are suggested: Corso di lingua greca, a c. di F. Montanari. Grammatica di A. Lukinovich e M. Rousset. Esercizi 1 e 2 di E. Mancino, Torino, Loescher, 1998; P. Rosa - R. Tosi, En didaskalon. Il greco in classe. Corso operativo di greco, I-II, Bologna, Cappelli Editore, 2006 and B.M. Trentin, Greco, Milano, Edizioni Alpha Test, 2002. Useful is also S. Luraghi - M. L. Garabo, Il greco antico, Roma, Carocci, 2008.
2. The following handbooks are suggested: L. Bottin, Etymon. Lessico per radici, Bergamo, Minerva Italica, 1990; F. Piazzi (a c. di), Lessico essenziale di greco, Bologna, Cappelli, 2000; P. Venti, Il nostro greco quotidiano. Lessico con elementi di civiltà, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2001. It is also suggested F. Montanari, GI. Vocabolario della lingua greca, seconda edizione, con CD-ROM e Guida all'uso e lessico di base, Torino, Loescher, 2004.
3. Further bibliographical information and handouts will be supplied during the course.
Teaching methods
Lectures will go with a continuous dialogue between teacher and students.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Blackboard, photocopies, personal computer etc.
Links to further information
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Organico/profili/alvoni.html
Office hours
See the website of Giovanna Alvoni