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Laurea magistrale in Tradizione e interpretazione dei testi letterari - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
2 course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
Certificate of the CLA at level B2 in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
A stage in a company with an agreement is warmly recommended
3
F
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
2 course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/02
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
6
B
L-FIL-LET/09
Certificate of the CLA at level B2 in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
A stage in a company with an agreement is warmly recommended
3
F
-

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Teaching code

4S001351

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/02 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Period

Sem. IB dal Nov 14, 2016 al Jan 21, 2017.

Learning outcomes

This course aims at offering to the students a methodological approach to the diacronic development of the literary Greek, with special attention to lexical, morphological, and syntactical aspects. Knowledge of Ancient Greek is required.

The course will focus on the Homeric language

Program

Bibliography:
1. Essays:
M. Cantilena, Sul discorso diretto in Omero, in: Omero tremila anni dopo, a cura di F. Montanari, con la collaborazione di P. Ascheri, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2002, pp. 21-39.
A. Ercolani, Il verso; La formularità; La lingua dei poemi omerici, in: Omero, Roma, Carocci, 2006, pp. 154-176.
B. Gentili, P. Giannini, Preistoria e formazione dell’esametro, in: «Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica» 26 (1977), pp. 7-51.

Other references:
A.C. Cassio [a cura di], Storia delle lingue letterarie greche. Seconda edizione, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2016, chap. 5: L’epica, di E. Passa).
P. Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris, Klincksieck, 1961; M. Lejeune, Phonétique historique du mycénien et du grec ancien, Paris, Klincksieck, 1972; P. Chantraine, Grammaire homérique I-II, nuovelle édition revue et corrigée par M. Casevitz, Paris, Klincksieck, 2013-2014; P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, Paris, Klincksieck, 2009(2); Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, begründet von B. Snell, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 1955-2010.
Further readings:
M. Parry, The Traditional Epithet in Homer, in: The Making of Homeric Verse. The Collected Papers of Milman Parry, ed. by A. Parry, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1971, pp. 1-190.

2. Texts:
Iliade 6 (Homer, Iliad, Book VI, ed. by B. Graziosi and J. Haubold, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010);
Iliade 1 (Omero, Iliade, Libro I, La peste – L’ira, Introduzione e commento di M. Giordano, traduzione di G. Cerri, Roma, Carocci, 2010);
Critical edition: Homeri Opera, recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt D.B. Monro et T.W. Allen, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920(3).

Examination Methods

Oral examination

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE