ID:
501050
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA GRECA
Located in:
CREMONA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 12/06/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
It provides knowledge of the diachronic development and formal features of ancient Greek literature. It aims at acquiring the ability to read, translate, understand, analyse, and interpret the texts of ancient Greek literary civilization. The results that are expected are: the knowledge and understanding of the topics and the texts (read in original language) of the course; the ability to incorporate this knowledge into the history of Greek culture and to evaluate the historical and conceptual links between the various topics; the improvement of one's translation skills of Greek texts of medium difficulty; the ability to clearly communicate the notions learned and to insert them into an organic historical and conceptual framework.
Course Prerequisites
This course is aimed at students who do not attend philological-literary study courses. It requires a basic knowledge of ancient Greek language (high school level).
Teaching Methods
Face-to-face lectures, mainly realized using PowerPoint presentations. Reading (in original language), translation and comment on selected passages of The Library attributed to Pseudo Apollodorus. The didactic material of the lectures will be available for downloading on KIRO UNIPV.
Assessment Methods
Oral interview intended to verify knowledge 1) of topics and texts presented during the lectures, especially from “The Library” of Pseudo Apollodorus; 2) of the history of ancient Greek literature from the origins to the Imperial Age. During the exam, the professor will assess also the student's ability to translate from ancient Greek, to insert this knowledge into the history of Greek culture, to explain the conceptual links between the various topics and to communicate clearly and with an appropriate language.
Texts
For the text of Pseudo Apollodorus see: P. SCARPI (ed.), M.G. CIANI (transl.), “Apollodoro, I miti greci”, Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 1996. For the history of ancient Greek literature, see one of the following handbooks (at your choice): F. MONTANARI, F. MONTANA, “Storia della letteratura greca. Dalle origini all’età imperiale”, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010; C. NERI, E. MEDDA, E. MAGNELLI, “Storia della letteratura greca. Dalle origini all'età tardoantica“, Roma, Carocci, 2025; A. RODIGHIERO, S. MAZZOLDI, D. PIOVAN, “Civiltà letteraria della Grecia antica“, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2025. Other bibliographic titles will be indicated and provided during the course.
Contents
“The Thousand Faces of Greek Myth” After a general introduction, illustrating the main genres, ways and forms of Greek literary communication, the course will focus on ancient mythography and the various declinations in which it was expressed in ancient literature. As a starting point, some chapters of "The Library" attributed to Apollodorus will be read in the original language and related to other Greek texts, in order to show the multiform character of myth in ancient Greek culture, with occasional insights into its reception. The exam program includes: 1) (Pseudo) Apollodorus, “The Library”, selections of chapters read in original language and discussed in class; 2) a manual of the history of Greek literature from its origins to the Imperial Age; 3) critical readings and teaching materials proposed during the lectures.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Non-attending students and those belonging to the categories for which inclusive teaching modes are provided are invited to contact me well in advance of the exam, so that receptions and any activities dedicated to them can be arranged. For students enrolled in single courses or not enrolled in courses in the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, a different schedule is planned, to be agreed upon after an interview with the professor.
Degrees
Degrees
HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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