ID:
501050
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA GRECA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
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 Archaic 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 Archaic Age.
1) appropriate knowledge of Greek language and literature of Archaic 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 Archaic Age.
Course Prerequisites
Good knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature, such as provided in the Italian high school (Liceo classico).
Teaching Methods
In-presence lessons, implying lively interaction and recourse to multimedia.
Assessment Methods
The exam is oral and aims to verify the knowledge of:
1) contents, learning materials and Greek texts proposed in the classroom, with metrical reading;
2) the bibliography indicated;
3) the Greek text of an anthology of Archaic poets (see "Programma e contenuti") or, for the absolute beginners, of Plato's Ion;
4) the historical outline of the Greek literature in Archaic age (8th-6th c. BCE).
1) contents, learning materials and Greek texts proposed in the classroom, with metrical reading;
2) the bibliography indicated;
3) the Greek text of an anthology of Archaic poets (see "Programma e contenuti") or, for the absolute beginners, of Plato's Ion;
4) the historical outline of the Greek literature in Archaic age (8th-6th c. BCE).
Texts
Texts and learning materials read in the classroom will be made available on the web platform Kiro.
Handbook of literary history: F. Montanari-F. Montana (collab.), Storia della letteratura greca. I: L’età arcaica e classica, Nuova edizione, Roma 2022.
Recommended anthology of Greek lyric poetry: C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età arcaica e classica, Roma 2011.
For the Greek text of Plato’s Ion: any school or paperback editions.
For the study or review of the ancient Greek language it is recommended to resort to a good high school handbook, to be submitted to the teacher for approval. Further tools: R. Pierini-R. Tosi, Capire il greco, Bologna 2014; G. Ugolini, Lexis. Lessico della lingua greca per radici e famiglie di parole, Bologna 2018.
Learning material useful 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.
Handbook of literary history: F. Montanari-F. Montana (collab.), Storia della letteratura greca. I: L’età arcaica e classica, Nuova edizione, Roma 2022.
Recommended anthology of Greek lyric poetry: C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età arcaica e classica, Roma 2011.
For the Greek text of Plato’s Ion: any school or paperback editions.
For the study or review of the ancient Greek language it is recommended to resort to a good high school handbook, to be submitted to the teacher for approval. Further tools: R. Pierini-R. Tosi, Capire il greco, Bologna 2014; G. Ugolini, Lexis. Lessico della lingua greca per radici e famiglie di parole, Bologna 2018.
Learning material useful 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
The poet and his audience in Archaic Greece.
The first part of the course will consider and discuss the dynamics of the poetic communication in ancient Greece from a general and functional viewpoint. In the second part, poetic texts representative of these dynamics in Archaic age will be read in original language and deeply examined in their historical, cultural and literary landscape. The choice of texts includes epic and lyrical works.
The main course is supported by a module of Lettorato di greco per principianti, which is mandatory for absolute beginners of ancient Greek language (60 hours, 1st semester). The Lettorato provides the essential knowledge of Greek (nominal and verbal morphology, elements of syntax, vocabulary).
The exam program is divided into 4 points:
1) Topics, texts and bibliography proposed in the classroom, with metrical reading of dactylic hexameter and Sapphic strophe.
2) Reading of no less than two essays among the following:
– B. Gentili, Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica. Da Omero al V secolo, Bari 1995 (3rd ed.; repr. Milano 2006);
– L.E. Rossi, L'ideologia dell'oralità fino a Platone, in: Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica, I: La produzione e la circolazione del testo, 1: La polis, dir. G. Cambiano, L. Canfora, D. Lanza, Roma 1992, pp. 77-106;
– L.E. Rossi, Lo spettacolo, in S. Settis (dir.), I Greci. Storia Arte Società, II/2, Torino 1997, pp. 751-793;
– R. Pretagostini, “Mousike”: poesia e “performance”, in S. Settis (dir.), I Greci. Storia Arte Società, II/3, Torino 1998, pp. 617-633;
– S. Goldhill, Programme Notes, in S. Goldhill-R. Osborne (eds), Performance culture and Athenian democracy, Cambridge 1999, pp. 1-29;
– F. Montanari, Introduzione a Omero. Con un’appendice su Esiodo, Roma 2013 (1st ed. Milano 1990);
– F. Bertolini, Il palazzo: l’epica, in: Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica, I: La produzione e la circolazione del testo, 1: La polis, dir. G. Cambiano, L. Canfora, D. Lanza, Roma 1992, pp. 109-141;
– B.P. Powell, Homer and Writing, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 3-32;
– M. Willcock, Neonalysis, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 174-189;
– S.V. Tracy, The Structures of the Odyssey, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 360-379;
– R. Scodel, The Story-Teller and His Audience, in R. Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge 2006, pp. 45-55;
– C.C. Tsagalis, Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods, in J. Ready-C.C. Tsagalis (eds.), Homer in Performance. Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters, Austin 2018, pp. 29-75;
– M. Ebbott, Homeric Epic in Performance, in C.O. Pache (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge 2020, pp. 9-20;
– C. Neri (ed.), Saffo. Testimonianze e frammenti, Berlin-Boston 2021, pp. 1-95 (Introduzione);
– S. Caciagli, Poeti e società. Comunicazione poetica e formazioni sociali nella Lesbo del VII-VI secolo a.C., Amsterdam 2011;
– D. Loscalzo, Saffo, la hetaira, Pisa-Roma 2019;
– a chapter from: F. Budelmann (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric, Cambridge 2009;
– a chapter from: P.J. Finglass-A. Kelly (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, Cambridge 2021.
3) An anthology of Greek Archaic lyric, with metrical reading of elegiac distich, iambic trimeter, trochaic trimeter, Sapphic strophe. Requested authors and fragments: Tyrtaeus fr. 10 West; Mimnermus frr. 1 and 2 West; Solon frr. 4 and 27 West; Archilochus frr. 1, 2, 5, 13, 19, 114, 120, 122, 128; Hipponax frr. 2, 42, 43, 44, 126 Degani; Alcaeus frr. 140, 208a, 332, 338, 346, 347, 348 Voigt; Sappho frr. 1, 16, 31, 34, 104a, 105a, 114, 168B Voigt; Anacreon frr. 356, 358, 396, 417 Page; Stesichorus fr. 192 Davies; Ibycus frr. 286 e 287 Davies; Simonides frr. 521, 531 Page.
NB: as an alternative to this point, the absolute beginners can prepare the Greek text of Plato, Ion.
4) History of Greek literature in the Archaic Age (8th-6th centuries).
The first part of the course will consider and discuss the dynamics of the poetic communication in ancient Greece from a general and functional viewpoint. In the second part, poetic texts representative of these dynamics in Archaic age will be read in original language and deeply examined in their historical, cultural and literary landscape. The choice of texts includes epic and lyrical works.
The main course is supported by a module of Lettorato di greco per principianti, which is mandatory for absolute beginners of ancient Greek language (60 hours, 1st semester). The Lettorato provides the essential knowledge of Greek (nominal and verbal morphology, elements of syntax, vocabulary).
The exam program is divided into 4 points:
1) Topics, texts and bibliography proposed in the classroom, with metrical reading of dactylic hexameter and Sapphic strophe.
2) Reading of no less than two essays among the following:
– B. Gentili, Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica. Da Omero al V secolo, Bari 1995 (3rd ed.; repr. Milano 2006);
– L.E. Rossi, L'ideologia dell'oralità fino a Platone, in: Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica, I: La produzione e la circolazione del testo, 1: La polis, dir. G. Cambiano, L. Canfora, D. Lanza, Roma 1992, pp. 77-106;
– L.E. Rossi, Lo spettacolo, in S. Settis (dir.), I Greci. Storia Arte Società, II/2, Torino 1997, pp. 751-793;
– R. Pretagostini, “Mousike”: poesia e “performance”, in S. Settis (dir.), I Greci. Storia Arte Società, II/3, Torino 1998, pp. 617-633;
– S. Goldhill, Programme Notes, in S. Goldhill-R. Osborne (eds), Performance culture and Athenian democracy, Cambridge 1999, pp. 1-29;
– F. Montanari, Introduzione a Omero. Con un’appendice su Esiodo, Roma 2013 (1st ed. Milano 1990);
– F. Bertolini, Il palazzo: l’epica, in: Lo spazio letterario della Grecia antica, I: La produzione e la circolazione del testo, 1: La polis, dir. G. Cambiano, L. Canfora, D. Lanza, Roma 1992, pp. 109-141;
– B.P. Powell, Homer and Writing, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 3-32;
– M. Willcock, Neonalysis, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 174-189;
– S.V. Tracy, The Structures of the Odyssey, in I. Morris-B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer, Leiden-New York-Köln 1997, pp. 360-379;
– R. Scodel, The Story-Teller and His Audience, in R. Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge 2006, pp. 45-55;
– C.C. Tsagalis, Performance Contexts for Rhapsodic Recitals in the Archaic and Classical Periods, in J. Ready-C.C. Tsagalis (eds.), Homer in Performance. Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters, Austin 2018, pp. 29-75;
– M. Ebbott, Homeric Epic in Performance, in C.O. Pache (ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Homer, Cambridge 2020, pp. 9-20;
– C. Neri (ed.), Saffo. Testimonianze e frammenti, Berlin-Boston 2021, pp. 1-95 (Introduzione);
– S. Caciagli, Poeti e società. Comunicazione poetica e formazioni sociali nella Lesbo del VII-VI secolo a.C., Amsterdam 2011;
– D. Loscalzo, Saffo, la hetaira, Pisa-Roma 2019;
– a chapter from: F. Budelmann (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric, Cambridge 2009;
– a chapter from: P.J. Finglass-A. Kelly (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, Cambridge 2021.
3) An anthology of Greek Archaic lyric, with metrical reading of elegiac distich, iambic trimeter, trochaic trimeter, Sapphic strophe. Requested authors and fragments: Tyrtaeus fr. 10 West; Mimnermus frr. 1 and 2 West; Solon frr. 4 and 27 West; Archilochus frr. 1, 2, 5, 13, 19, 114, 120, 122, 128; Hipponax frr. 2, 42, 43, 44, 126 Degani; Alcaeus frr. 140, 208a, 332, 338, 346, 347, 348 Voigt; Sappho frr. 1, 16, 31, 34, 104a, 105a, 114, 168B Voigt; Anacreon frr. 356, 358, 396, 417 Page; Stesichorus fr. 192 Davies; Ibycus frr. 286 e 287 Davies; Simonides frr. 521, 531 Page.
NB: as an alternative to this point, the absolute beginners can prepare the Greek text of Plato, Ion.
4) History of Greek literature in the Archaic Age (8th-6th centuries).
Course Language
Italian
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Learning material available on the platform Kiro (https://elearning.unipv.it/).
For further information, please contact the teacher.
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