ID:
506455
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA NEOGRECA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course is composed of two units.
1) Language: the aim is to provide a general foundation in the Neogreek language, in order to cope with a range of everyday communicative situations, when interacting at a basic level, orally and in writing.
2) Literature: The course introduces the Greek literature in its diachronic development through a choice of themes and a Case Study. Also focus on contemporary arts, music, cinema. At the end of the course the students will have to demonstrate critical ability and autonomy of analyzing the texts.
1) Language: the aim is to provide a general foundation in the Neogreek language, in order to cope with a range of everyday communicative situations, when interacting at a basic level, orally and in writing.
2) Literature: The course introduces the Greek literature in its diachronic development through a choice of themes and a Case Study. Also focus on contemporary arts, music, cinema. At the end of the course the students will have to demonstrate critical ability and autonomy of analyzing the texts.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of Ancient Greek is not a necessary prerequisite. Students are requested to be curious about contemporary problems and to have a good basic culture to operate interdisciplinary links.
Teaching Methods
Lectures based on powerpoint slides, texts, supplementary teacher's explaations, videos and films; Case Study.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination. The oral exam consists of two parts. Language: conversation in Neogreek to check the level. Literature: Critical Analysis of selected essays pages.
Texts
Student Book: Ellinika A'. Methodos ekmathisis tis ellinikis os xenis glossas (epipeda A1+A2), Pavlopoulou A., Simòpoulos G., Kanellopoulou
R., Pathiaki I., Edizioni Pataki, Atene 2010
Dictionaries:
-Greco moderno-italiano, italiano-greco moderno, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013
-Greco antico-neogreco e italiano. Dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi, a cura di A.Kolonia e M.Peri, Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
History of Neogreek Language: selected pages from important essays (in Italian/English)
Literature and Culture:
-Mario Vitti, Storia della letteratura neogreca, Carocci, Roma 2001
- Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017
- Nikos Kazantzakis, La mia Grecia, Crocetti, Milano 2021 + selected pages Nikos Kazantzakis Viaggi in Giappone e in Cina, Viaggi in Russia
-Collection of essays provided by the teacher
-History : Richard Clogg, Storia della Grecia moderna : dalla caduta
dell'impero bizantino a oggi Bompiani, Milano 1996 (trad. Andrea Di
Gregorio); Thanos Beremes-J.Koliopoulos, La Grecia moderna: una storia
che inizia nel 1821, Argo, Lecce 2014
R., Pathiaki I., Edizioni Pataki, Atene 2010
Dictionaries:
-Greco moderno-italiano, italiano-greco moderno, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna 2013
-Greco antico-neogreco e italiano. Dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi, a cura di A.Kolonia e M.Peri, Zanichelli, Bologna 2008
History of Neogreek Language: selected pages from important essays (in Italian/English)
Literature and Culture:
-Mario Vitti, Storia della letteratura neogreca, Carocci, Roma 2001
- Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017
- Nikos Kazantzakis, La mia Grecia, Crocetti, Milano 2021 + selected pages Nikos Kazantzakis Viaggi in Giappone e in Cina, Viaggi in Russia
-Collection of essays provided by the teacher
-History : Richard Clogg, Storia della Grecia moderna : dalla caduta
dell'impero bizantino a oggi Bompiani, Milano 1996 (trad. Andrea Di
Gregorio); Thanos Beremes-J.Koliopoulos, La Grecia moderna: una storia
che inizia nel 1821, Argo, Lecce 2014
Contents
LANGUAGE:
• A brief History of the Greek Language
• Alphabet, pronunciation and phonetic rules
• Genres: masculine, feminine, neuter
• Constituents of the noun phrase: articles, nouns and adjectives (first type)
• Verbal Morphology. Present tense: "to be" and conjugations (I and II): regular, auxiliary and some irregular verbs; "deponent" verbs
• Personal, possessive, interrogative pronouns; demonstrative pronouns/adjectives
• Numerals
• Prepositions
• Constituents of the verb phrase and use of the tenses
• Main clauses and simple subordinate clauses
• Adverbs: manner,place, time, quantity
• Verbal tenses (perfective and imperfective forms): the case of the future
• Active "aorist" I conjug. and use in subordinate clauses
• Communication in everyday situations
LITERATURE:
A) Greeks today and antiquity legacy. Focus on Acropolis. To read: Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.
B) Literature and journey in Greece. The theoretical debate: Spatial Turn in Humanities; travel literature between fiction and non-fiction; semiotics of travel; position of the narrator-traveller (I as protagonist, “translator” of the Other, personal perspective and cultural interference).
Famous travellers in Greece, from the Grand Tour to the late 20th century, between Orientalism and prejudices.
Case study: Nikos Kazantzakis, traveller and “father” of travel literature in Greece.
Full reading of: Nikos Kazantzakis "La mia Grecia", Crocetti, Milan 2021 and selected passages from Nikos Kazantzakis, "Viaggi in Giappone e in Cina", Crocetti, Milan 2023, “Viaggi in Russia”, Crocetti 2025. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.
• A brief History of the Greek Language
• Alphabet, pronunciation and phonetic rules
• Genres: masculine, feminine, neuter
• Constituents of the noun phrase: articles, nouns and adjectives (first type)
• Verbal Morphology. Present tense: "to be" and conjugations (I and II): regular, auxiliary and some irregular verbs; "deponent" verbs
• Personal, possessive, interrogative pronouns; demonstrative pronouns/adjectives
• Numerals
• Prepositions
• Constituents of the verb phrase and use of the tenses
• Main clauses and simple subordinate clauses
• Adverbs: manner,place, time, quantity
• Verbal tenses (perfective and imperfective forms): the case of the future
• Active "aorist" I conjug. and use in subordinate clauses
• Communication in everyday situations
LITERATURE:
A) Greeks today and antiquity legacy. Focus on Acropolis. To read: Christos Chryssòpoulos, Il bombarolo del Partenone, Asterios, Trieste 2017. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.
B) Literature and journey in Greece. The theoretical debate: Spatial Turn in Humanities; travel literature between fiction and non-fiction; semiotics of travel; position of the narrator-traveller (I as protagonist, “translator” of the Other, personal perspective and cultural interference).
Famous travellers in Greece, from the Grand Tour to the late 20th century, between Orientalism and prejudices.
Case study: Nikos Kazantzakis, traveller and “father” of travel literature in Greece.
Full reading of: Nikos Kazantzakis "La mia Grecia", Crocetti, Milan 2021 and selected passages from Nikos Kazantzakis, "Viaggi in Giappone e in Cina", Crocetti, Milan 2023, “Viaggi in Russia”, Crocetti 2025. Collection of essays provided by the teacher.
Course Language
Italian
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Non-attending students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher.
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