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

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CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Certificate of CLA B2 Level in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
6
F
-
Other activities
3
F
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Certificate of CLA B2 Level in Italian for students of the University of Augsburg and in German for students of the University of Verona
6
F
-
Other activities
3
F
-

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Teaching code

4S02266

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

First half of Semester 1 , Second half of Semester 1

Learning outcomes

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At the end of the course students should have acquired deep knowledge of the language, the literary and generic aspects of the texts analyzed, and they should be able to analyze and comment even other texts of the Greek literary tradition via different interpretive approaches and hermeneutic categories.

Program

1. Greek tragedy and its performance
2. Sophocles, Antigone

Bibliography
1.
A. Rodighiero, La tragedia greca, il Mulino, Bologna 2013;
M. Di Marco, La tragedia greca. Forma, gioco scenico, tecniche drammatiche, Carocci, Roma 2009;
R.B. Rutherford, Greek Tragic Style. Form, Language and Interpretation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012.

2.
Sophoclis fabulae, recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt H. Lloyd-Jones et N.G. Wilson, OCT, Oxonii 1990.
Essays:
E. Cingano, Figure eroiche nell’Antigone di Sofocle e nella tradizione mitografica arcaica, in Il dramma sofocleo: testo, lingua, interpretazione, Atti del Seminario Internazionale, Verona, 24-26 gennaio 2002, a c. di G. Avezzù, Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2003, pp. 69-84.
D. Cairns, Sophocles: Antigone, Bloomsbury, London 2016.
Commentary:
Sophocles, Antigone, edited by M. Griffith, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.

(More material will be made available during the lessons)

Scheduled lessons:
lectures (36 hours)

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
R.B. Rutherford Greek Tragic Style. Form, Language and Interpretation Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012
A. Rodighiero La tragedia greca il Mulino, Bologna 2013
M. Di Marco La tragedia greca. Forma, gioco scenico, tecniche drammatiche Carocci, Roma 2009
M. Griffith Sophocles, Antigone CUP, Cambridge 1999
D. Cairns Sophocles: Antigone Bloomsbury, London 2016
H. Lloyd-Jones, N.G. Wilson Sophoclis fabulae OCT, Oxford 1990

Examination Methods

The oral examination aims at evaluating the student's knowledge, with special reference to the texts read during the lectures and to the general aspects of Greek tragedy (cf. the Companions in the Syllabus).

Erasmus students will be informed during the lectures about the 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