Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
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.
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Latin literature (i)
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
History of Classical Tradition LT (i) (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S02174
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Also offered in courses:
- History of Classic Tradition BC (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/05 - CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
Period
Sem 2B dal Apr 6, 2020 al May 30, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to introduce the student to the knowledge of the ‘survival’ of classics beyond the ancient world. It will focus on some relevant aspects of the tradition and reception of Greek and Latin literature in postclassical times.
At the end of the course, students must be able to show:
1) that they have acquired an adequate knowledge of the concepts of ‘classical tradition’ and ‘classical reception’ in their essential features;
2) that they have acquired a thorough knowledge of the texts that have been read in the course as well as of their thematic and hermeneutic aspects;
3) that they have acquired an adequate knowledge of some of the main literary rewritings of the themes and characters of the classical literary civilization both in Greek-roman antiquity and in the modern era.
4) that they can autonomously and critically assess analogies and differences between the literary works analysed in class.
Program
The course aims to introduce students to the History of the Classical Tradition through the discipline’s basic conceptual and theoretical premises (concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘classical reception’, etc.) and will focus on the fortune of the figure of the Greek hero Philoctetes. Lectures will focus on some of the most relevant literary works featuring Philoctetes, starting from Sophocles’ play of the same name up to modern and contemporary times.
In addition to the texts found in the box underneath (‘Reference books’), further bibliography will be provided or suggested in class.
Students unable to attend classes will be provided a few additional texts and are expected to contact the lecturer during the weekly consultation times.
Prerequisites: a basic knowledge of the classical languages is desirable, but not necessary
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| A. Alessandri, M. Massenzio (a cura di) | Filottete. Variazioni sul mito. | Marsilio, Venezia | 2009 | ||
| E. Dugdale | Philoctetes, in R. Lauriola e K.N. Demetriou (a cura di), Companion to the Reception of Sophocles. | Brill, Leiden | 2017 | Pp. 77-145. | |
| C. Martindale | Reception, in C.W. Kallendorf (ed.), A Companion to the Classical Tradition. | Blackwell, Malden, MA – Oxford – Victoria | 2007 | Pp. 297-311. | |
| L. Hardwick | Reception Studies. | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2003 | Capp. 1 (‘From the Classical Tradition to Reception Studies’), 2 (‘Reception within Antiquity’), 4 (‘Staging Receptions’). |
Examination Methods
The students’ knowledge on the course contents will be assessed via a written exam. The exam will feature essay questions. The same assessment method applied to all students, either attending classes or not.
The exam questions will focus both on the ‘theoretical’ aspects of the course and on the literary texts specifically pertaining to the figure of Philoctetets and their main thematic and hermeneutical features.
The exam will be based on a series a questions. The sum of the marks awarded for each question will determine the exam’s total marks, up to a maximum of 30/30.
Students willing to write the exam without attending classes are required to contact the lecturer during the weekly consultation times.
N.B.: due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during the 2020 summer session the assessment method will be modified as follows: online oral exam.
