Teaching code

4S02266

Teacher

Andrea Rodighiero

Coordinator

Andrea Rodighiero

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Greek Literature [Sede VR] of the course Master's degree in Arts (interuniversity)

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

1 A, 1 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course «Greek Literature» aims at offering a deeper knowledge of the literary and linguistic aspects within the frame of the history of Greek Literature; during the teaching classes Students will translate and comment literary texts (poetry and/or prose), also considering philological aspects and using the usual ‘tools’ of the literary hermeneutic (metrical analysis, textual philology, study of the figures of style, as well as narratology, sociolinguistic, history of the interpretation). 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 date, analyze and comment even other texts of the Greek literary tradition via different interpretive approaches and hermeneutic categories. Knowledge of Greek language is mandatory.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge of the Ancient Greek Language

Program

Sappho and Alcaeus
Texts
(a) Sappho et Alcaeus, fragmenta edidit E.M. Voigt, Amsterdam 1971;
C. Neri, Saffo, Testimonianze e frammenti. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento, Berlin-Boston 2021
Alcée, Fragments, I-II, texte établi, traduit et annoté par G. Liberman, Paris 1999;
Translations: V. Di Benedetto, F. Ferrari, Saffo, Poesie, Milano 1987; A. Aloni, Saffo, Frammenti, Firenze 1997; C. Neri, F. Cinti, Saffo, Poesie. Frammenti e testimonianze, Milano 2017; A. Porro, Alceo, Frammenti, Firenze 1996.
Selections: Lirici greci, a cura di M. Cavalli, G. Guidorizzi, A. Aloni, Milano 2007; Lirici greci, a cura di C. Di Noi, Roma 2015
(b) B. Gentili, Le vie di Eros nella poesia dei tiasi femminili e dei simposi, in Poesia e pubblico nella Grecia antica. Da Omero al V secolo, Milano 2006, 138-174; F. Ferrari, Una mitra per Kleis. Saffo e il suo pubblico, Pisa 2007; A.C. Cassio (a cura di), Storia delle lingue letterarie greche. Seconda edizione, Firenze 2016, cap. 6 (La lirica monodica, O. Tribulato); D. Yatromanolakis, Alcaeus and Sappho, in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric, edited by F. Budelmann, Cambridge 2009, 204-226. P.J. Finglass, A. Kelly (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, Cambridge 2021.
Further readings: G.O. Hutchinson, Greek Lyric Poetry. A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces, Oxford 2001; E. Degani, G. Burzacchini, Lirici greci, Bologna 2005[2]; E. Greene, M.B. Skinner (ed.), The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues, Washington, DC 2009 [online]; C. Neri, Lirici greci. Età arcaica e classica, Roma 2011; A. Bierl, A. Lardinois, The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1-4, Leiden-Boston 2016 [online].

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Seminars

Learning assessment procedures

Oral examination

Evaluation criteria

The oral examination aims at evaluating the student's knowledge, with special reference to the texts read during the lectures and to the general, philological, and literary aspects.
Erasmus students will be informed during the lectures about the oral examination.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

15 + 15 for each of the two halves of the oral examination (history of literature, papers and essays + translation and knowledge of the language)

Exam language

Italiano