CULTURE AND TRADITION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LET022

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

RECCHIA MARCO

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of Greek and Latin languages is NOT required.

Objectives

Know the fundamental aspects of ancient Greek culture.
Know themes, motifs and characteristics of the Greek poetesses’ literary production.

Contents

The course aims to illustrate the essential lines of development of Greek culture and literature, and to trace certain avenues of their reception in the literary and artistic tradition down to the modern and contemporary age, through the reading and analysis of literary texts.

Extended Syllabus

Knowledge of the following literary genres and authors is required, together with their historical reference context:
- epic (Homer and the Homeric question; Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days);
- iambus and archaic elegy;
- monodic and choral lyric;
- historiography of the classical age (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon);
- tragedy and comedy;
- philosophy of the classic age (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle);
- oratory (Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes);
- Hellenistic poetry (Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, greek epigrams);
- philosophy of the hellenistic age (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynism, Skepticism);
- Polybius;
- New Testament;
- Plutarch and Lucian.
Knowledge of the following ancient works is also required:
- Homer, Iliad book 6;
- Framments of greek lyric poets (selected passages);
- Plato, Socrates' Apology;
- Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos or Euripides', Medea;
- Catullus, translation of Callimachus' Coma Berenices;
- Theocritus 1.

Recommended Bibliography

One of the following manuals of the history of Greek literature: L.E. Rossi, Letteratura greca, Le Monnier, Firenze 1995 (or subsequent editions); G.A. Privitera - R. Pretagostini, Storie e forme della letteratura greca, Einaudi, Torino 1997; G. Guidorizzi, Letteratura greca. Da Omero al secolo VI d.C., Mondadori, Milano 2002; A. Porro - W. Lapini - C. Laffi, Ktema es aiei. La letteratura greca, Loescher Editore, Torino 2017; A. Porro - W. Lapini, Letteratura greca, Il Mulino, Bologna 2017.
- G. Cerri, Omero. Iliade, Rizzoli, Milano 1996.
-G. Reale, Platone. Apologia di Socrate, Milano 1996, Rusconi Libri.
- B. Gentili - C. Catenacci, I poeti del canone lirico nella Grecia antica, Feltrinelli, Milano 2010.
- F. Condello, Sofocle. Edipo Re, Siena 2009 oppure V. Di Benedetto-E. Cerbo, Euripide. Medea, Milano 1997.
- G.B. Pighi, Il libro di Gaio Valerio Catullo e i frammenti dei Poeti nuovi, Torino 1996.
- B.M. Palumbo Stracca, Teocrito, Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 1999.

Teaching Methods

Teacher up front lessons with student participation.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Semi-structured written exam preparatory to the oral and oral exam.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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