30352 - Philology and Greek Literature (LM)

Learning outcomes

Students are expected to acquire a specific knowledge of the authors of Greek Literature as well as the methodological skills useful for the textual analysis. They are expected also to know elements of ancient Greek culture that are necessary for understanding modern european literatures.

Course contents

A. Special focus course (‘corso monografico'): Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus.
B. Core course (‘parte istituzionale'). 1. Odyssey V; Greek lyric fragments (Tyrtaeus, Solon, Archilochus, Hipponax, Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon, Alcman, Stesichorus, Pindar, Bacchylides). 2. Aristophanes, Frogs. 3. Lysias, Against Eratosthenes.
C. Critical investigations.

Lessons timetable: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 13 (Aula II, Via Zamboni 32). 
Start date: 5.2.2018-17.5.2018.

Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9-13.

Links: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/camillo.neri
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Didattica/Programs/20172018/FLG2018/index.htm
Course presentation: https://prezi.com/8cgrzpvnl7ks/filologia-e-letteratura-greca-20172018/

Readings/Bibliography

A. Notes from the lessons: texts will be examined under the critical and exegetical point of view. It will be also put in connection with the contemporary Greek world and more in general in their Fortleben with the western tradition of studies. As for the reading of Oedipus Coloneus, cf. G. Avezzù-G. Guidorizzi-G. Cerri, Sofocle. Edipo a Colono, Milano, Fond. Lorenzo Valla, 2008; see also H. Lloyd-Jones–N.G. Wilson, Sophoclis fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 355-431; R.D. Dawe, Sophocles. Oedipus Coloneus, Stuttgart-Leipzig, Teubner, 1996 (3rd ed.),, or any other edition with critical text and notes; for a critical assessment see A. Kelly, Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, London, Duckworth & Co., 2009; A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill's Companion to Sophocles, Leiden, Brill, 2012; K. Ormand (ed.), A Companion to Sophocles, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

B. 1a. J.B. Hainsworth-G.A. Privitera, Omero. Odissea, II. (Libri V-VIII), Milano, Fond. Lorenzo Valla, 2015 (12th ed.), or F. Ferrari, Odissea di Omero, Torino, Utet, 2001, or Maria Grazia Ciani-Elisa Avezzù, Omero. Odissea, Milano, Bur, 2008. 1b. C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età arcaica e classica, Roma, Carocci, 2011, or E. Degani-G. Burzacchini, Lirici greci, Bologna, Pàtron, 2005 (2nd ed.). 2. V. Tammaro, Aristofane. Le Rane, Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Rusconi Libri, 2016, or D. Del Corno, Aristofane. Le Rane, Milano, Mondadori/Valla, 2006 (6th ed.), or any other edition with Greek text. 3. G. Avezzù, Lisia. Contro i tiranni, Venezia, Marsilio, 1991, or M. Marzi, Orazioni e frammenti di Lisia, Torino, Utet, 2006, or E. Medda, Lisia. Orazioni (I-XV), Milano, Bur, 1991,or any other edition with Greek text.

C. Students are required to arrange with the teachers their own field of interest where to direct the reading (in translation) of some work of crucial importance in the Greek Literature as well as of some monographies (ex. if a student decides to examine the women-role in ancient Greece he will be required to read in translation the Euripides' Medea, Aristophanes' Thesmoforiazousai, Theocritus' XV Idyll, a selection of erotic epigrams and the reading ed. by G. Arrigoni). Basic notions of metrics, grammar and literary history are also required.

Students who do not attend the lessons are invited to contact the teacher to define an additional customized program.

Teaching methods

The lessons will be carried out mostly by both teachers (R. Tosi and C. Neri) as a seminar: the textual analysis and the discussion will be collective.
Photocopies of the most important texts will be given out and students will be required to do their own researches in the Library of the Department.

Assessment methods

At the end of the course an oral examination will take place. The students are expected to expose their critical investigation and to show their skills in translating the core course's texts and in translating and commenting the special focus texts. The active participation of the students in the course is strongly recommended.

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.

For deeply-rooted didactic conviction, I do not propose links to syllabi of questions, which would inevitably end up impoverishing the general preparation of the students. Since exams take place every fifteen days, students who want to experience the actual performance of an exam can attend - as spectators - the exam sessions, which are public.

Teaching tools

PC, video projector, overhead projector, photocopied handouts.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/camillo.neri

Office hours

See the website of Camillo Neri

See the website of Renzo Tosi