1) Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the literary
genres and of main authors; understanding of the relevant topics and of formal
aspects that are proper of each author/genre.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
ability to translate texts fluently and to analyze them from a content and
formal point of view in their grammatical, syntactic, stylistic and possibly
metric aspects, and to recognize the ground elements of Greek culture.
3) Autonomy of judgment: gradual development of the
aptitude for critical reflection through continuous comparison with sources in
the original language.
4) Communication skills: acquisition of a specific
technical vocabulary relating to the formal aspects of the text.
5) Learning ability: ability to select relevant
information in a manual and organize it in a system; acquisition of an
effective translation method.
Lectures.
Attendance is not compulsory.
A – Literary history (3 ECTS)
History of Greek Literature from the beginnings to the IV century AD.
B - Reading of texts in original language (3 ECTS)
1) Homer, Ilias XXII;
2) A selection from Greek lyric poetry (numbers refer to Degani and
Burzacchini): Archilochus: 2, 3, 6, 8; Hipponax: 7, 8, 19, 20;
Tyrtaeus: 1-2; Mimnermus: 1, 2; Solon: 1; Xenophanes: 1, 2; Sappho: 1, 2, 3,
11; Alcaeus: 2, 7, 8, 15; Anacreon: 3, 9; Alcman: 1, 3, 5; Stesichorus: 1, 2;
Ibycus: 1, 2; Simonides: 1-2; Pindar, Olympian I.
3) Sophocles, Antigone 1-581,
883-928, 988-1114, 1155-1353
In addition to thorough study of the selected passages in Greek, full
reading in translation of the tragedy is required.
Rhythmical reading is required for poetic texts of module B in spoken
verse (dactylic hexameter, elegiac distich, iambic trimeter, trochaic
tetrameter)
A – Literary
history (3 ECTS)
D. Del Corno, Letteratura Greca, Milano,
Principato 1995, pp. 37-58, 63-77
(epic poetry), 90-118,
120-142, 144-147 (lyric poetry), 165-179
(introduction to tragedy), 183-196 (Aeschylus), 199-214 (Sophocles), 217-239
(Euripides), 255-268 (introduction to comedy), 275-290 (Aristophanes), 317-329
(historiography. Herodotus), 331-342 (Thucydides), 345-350 (beginnings of
rhetoric. Lysias), 359-364 (Xenophon), 369-376 (IV century orators.
Demosthenes, Aeschines, Isocrates, Hyperides), 412-432 (Middle and New Comedy.
Menander), 437-449, 452-457 (Hellenism. Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes),
459-469 (Theocritus), 469-471 (Herodas), 472-481 (Epigram), 485-490 (Polybius),
529-535 (Plutarch), 538-546 (Novel). A different textbook may be chosen in accordance with the
teacher.
B - Reading of texts in original language (3 ECTS)
1) Omero, La morte di Ettore: Iliade XXII,
a cura di M.G. Ciani, commento di E. Avezzù, Venezia 1987 (available at
Department Library; pages corresponding to Greek text and translation), or:
Homer, Iliad Book XXII, ed. by I.
De Jong, Cambridge 2012, pp. 1-58.
2) E. Degani - G.
Burzacchini (a cura di), Lirici Greci. Antologia. Aggiornamento
bibliografico a cura di M. Magnani, Bologna, Pàtron editore, 2005, pp. 23-24,
26-27, 30-31, 36-42, 54-58, 70, 72-74, 86-94, 96-103, 107-113, 115-119,
125-146, 157-163, 195-197, 214-222, 232-233, 248-250, 258-260, 283-284,
290-291, 294-296, 299-302, 305-312, 318-322, 324-329, 332-348.
3) Sofocle, Antigone, Edipo re, Edipo
a Colono, a cura di F. Ferrari, Milano, BUR 1982, or any edition
with facing Greek text (pages corresponding to the selected verses).
Recommended text for metrical analysis and reading: P.B. Cipolla, ρ. ῥυθμός. La
musica, in Greco. Lingua storia e
cultura di una grande civiltà, a cura di M. Centanni e P.B. Cipolla,
vol. 21, “I manuali del Corriere della Sera”, Milano, RCS 2023, pp. 1-44.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
