ID:
501051
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA GRECA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the student will achieve the following outcomes:
1) appropriate knowledge of Greek language and literature of Classical Age;
2) ability to appropriate contextualization of the main Greek literary genres of that period and strengthening of personal critical skills through reading and analysis of texts pertaining to the same period;
3) ability to make autonomous and conscious judgments on the topics of the course;
4) ability to communicate the course contents to both specialists and non-specialists, by debating issues and proposing arguments and solutions;
5) acquisition of necessary skills for the autonomous deepening of the course topics and of the main aspects of the ancient Greek language and literature, with special reference to Classical Age.
1) appropriate knowledge of Greek language and literature of Classical Age;
2) ability to appropriate contextualization of the main Greek literary genres of that period and strengthening of personal critical skills through reading and analysis of texts pertaining to the same period;
3) ability to make autonomous and conscious judgments on the topics of the course;
4) ability to communicate the course contents to both specialists and non-specialists, by debating issues and proposing arguments and solutions;
5) acquisition of necessary skills for the autonomous deepening of the course topics and of the main aspects of the ancient Greek language and literature, with special reference to Classical Age.
Course Prerequisites
To have already passed the exam of Greek language and literature (1st year) or the equivalent.
Teaching Methods
In-presence lessons with lively interaction and recourse to multimedia.
Assessment Methods
The exam is oral and is intended to verify the knowledge of:
1) contents and ancient texts presented and discussed during the lectures, with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter;
2) the bibliography recommended;
3) the two Greek texts chosen, with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter;
4) the historical outline of the Greek literature in Classical age.
1) contents and ancient texts presented and discussed during the lectures, with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter;
2) the bibliography recommended;
3) the two Greek texts chosen, with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter;
4) the historical outline of the Greek literature in Classical age.
Texts
For the Greek text of Euripides’ Hippolytus: ed. W.S. Barrett, Oxford 1964, available in the Biblioteca of Studi Umanistici.
The parts of the Brill's Companion to Euripides will be made available by the teacher.
For the two Greek texts chosen: any school or paperback edition.
For the literary history: F. Montanari-F. Montana (collab.), Storia della letteratura greca. I: L’età arcaica e classica, Nuova edizione, Roma 2022 (part on the classical age only).
Learning material for the metrical reading will be provided by the teacher. Reference handbooks: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milano 2012 (1a ed. 2003); M.C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna 1995.
The parts of the Brill's Companion to Euripides will be made available by the teacher.
For the two Greek texts chosen: any school or paperback edition.
For the literary history: F. Montanari-F. Montana (collab.), Storia della letteratura greca. I: L’età arcaica e classica, Nuova edizione, Roma 2022 (part on the classical age only).
Learning material for the metrical reading will be provided by the teacher. Reference handbooks: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milano 2012 (1a ed. 2003); M.C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna 1995.
Contents
Euripides, Hippolytus.
The lectures will focus on the historical and cultural background of Euripides' Hippolytus and propose a close reading of wide parts of the play with linguistic, content-related, thematic, and dramaturgical commentary.
Students may also benefit from a module of Lettorato di greco – esercitazioni (60 hours, 1st semester), providing analysis and translation activities on the text of Greek literary texts in original language. Attending the Lettorato is not mandatory, but highly recommended.
The exam program is divided into 4 parts:
1) Topics, texts (with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter), and critical bibliography proposed during the lectures.
2) Critical readings:
– S. Miles, Euripidean Stagecraft, in A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Euripides, Leiden-Boston 2020, pp. 726-748;
– M. Mueller, Hippolytus, in A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Euripides, Leiden-Boston 2020, pp. 121-138.
3) Reading of two Greek literary works or books in the original, to be defined with the teacher. The choice must be made from the following lists:
a) drama (with metrical reading of iambic trimeter): Aeschylus, “Persians”, or “Seven against Thebes”, or “Agamemnon”; Sophocles, “Ajax”, or “Antigone”, or “King Oedipus”; Euripides, “Alcestis”, or “Medea”, or “Helen”; Aristophanes, “Knights”, or “Clouds”, or “Frogs”;
b) prose: Herodotus, “Histories” book 1; Thucydides, “The Peloponnesian War” book 2; Xenophon, “Spartan Constitution”; Lysias: “For the murder of Eratosthenes”, or “Against Eratosthenes”, or “For the invalid”, or “Funeral oration for the men dead in defense of Corinth”; Isocrates, “Helen”, or “Panegyric”, or “On the peace”; Demosthenes, “Philippic 3” (short version); Plato, “Socrates’ apology”, or “Ion”, or “Symposium”, or “Crito”, or “Phaedo”.
4) history of ancient Greek literature, classical age (5th-4th c. BC).
The lectures will focus on the historical and cultural background of Euripides' Hippolytus and propose a close reading of wide parts of the play with linguistic, content-related, thematic, and dramaturgical commentary.
Students may also benefit from a module of Lettorato di greco – esercitazioni (60 hours, 1st semester), providing analysis and translation activities on the text of Greek literary texts in original language. Attending the Lettorato is not mandatory, but highly recommended.
The exam program is divided into 4 parts:
1) Topics, texts (with metrical reading of the iambic trimeter), and critical bibliography proposed during the lectures.
2) Critical readings:
– S. Miles, Euripidean Stagecraft, in A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Euripides, Leiden-Boston 2020, pp. 726-748;
– M. Mueller, Hippolytus, in A. Markantonatos (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Euripides, Leiden-Boston 2020, pp. 121-138.
3) Reading of two Greek literary works or books in the original, to be defined with the teacher. The choice must be made from the following lists:
a) drama (with metrical reading of iambic trimeter): Aeschylus, “Persians”, or “Seven against Thebes”, or “Agamemnon”; Sophocles, “Ajax”, or “Antigone”, or “King Oedipus”; Euripides, “Alcestis”, or “Medea”, or “Helen”; Aristophanes, “Knights”, or “Clouds”, or “Frogs”;
b) prose: Herodotus, “Histories” book 1; Thucydides, “The Peloponnesian War” book 2; Xenophon, “Spartan Constitution”; Lysias: “For the murder of Eratosthenes”, or “Against Eratosthenes”, or “For the invalid”, or “Funeral oration for the men dead in defense of Corinth”; Isocrates, “Helen”, or “Panegyric”, or “On the peace”; Demosthenes, “Philippic 3” (short version); Plato, “Socrates’ apology”, or “Ion”, or “Symposium”, or “Crito”, or “Phaedo”.
4) history of ancient Greek literature, classical age (5th-4th c. BC).
Course Language
Italian.
More information
The learning material will be available on the platform Kiro (https://elearning.unipv.it/).
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