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

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Scopri i percorsi formativi promossi dal  Teaching and learning centre dell'Ateneo, destinati agli studenti iscritti ai corsi di laurea, volti alla promozione delle competenze trasversali:
Academic year:
Cuci 1 A From 9/26/22 To 11/5/22
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Business English for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° Russian for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° Books and writings of the Greek world F Paolo Scattolin (Coordinator)
1° 2° Music in History F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
CuCi 1 B From 11/14/22 To 12/22/22
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Conference PRIN "Ippolito Nievo tra i Mille" F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Business English for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° Russian for everybody F Serena Dal Maso (Coordinator)
1° 2° Books and writings of the Greek world F Paolo Scattolin (Coordinator)
1° 2° Music in History F Vincenzo Borghetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° Contemporary history seminars F Renato Camurri (Coordinator)
1° 2° Text, author, audience. The forms of reception from antiquity to modernity F Massimo Natale (Coordinator)
CuCi 2 A From 2/13/23 To 4/6/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Seminar Day “I would annex the planets if I could”. Representations of exploration and conquest between 19th and 20th century F Luca Ciancio (Coordinator)
1° 2° Introduction to robotics for humanities students F Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Opera Workshop F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° Reading the Middle Ages. Authors, Meetings, Debates F Marco Stoffella (Coordinator)
CuCi 2 B From 4/12/23 To 5/27/23
years Modules TAF Teacher
1° 2° FAI Activities F Edoardo Bianchi (Coordinator)
1° 2° Meeting cycle «Anniversari» F Fabio Danelon (Coordinator)
1° 2° Conference "Franca Rame, not only an actress" F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° Ferments, experiments and meetings on the Italian dance and theatre scene between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° Festival of journalism F Simona Brunetti (Coordinator)
1° 2° Introduction to robotics for humanities students F Paolo Fiorini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Opera Workshop F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° Reading the Middle Ages. Authors, Meetings, Debates F Marco Stoffella (Coordinator)
1° 2° 3° Conversations F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
List of courses with unassigned period
years Modules TAF Teacher
Laboratory of photo F Carlo Vannini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Conference Civici Museum Verona F Tiziana Franco (Coordinator)
1° 2° Know to respect and respect each other F Nicoletta Zerman (Coordinator)
1° 2° International Congress CRIER “Verona at the Centre of Europe: Diplomacy, Literature and the Arts at the Congress of 1822” F Paolo Pellegrini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Dialogoi. Inter-university reading seminar on classical texts F Gherardo Ugolini (Coordinator)
1° 2° Future's Festival F Alessandra Zangrandi (Coordinator)
1° 2° For the centenary of the death of Giovanni Verga. Study meeting F Fabio Danelon (Coordinator)
1° 2° Literature and dance project: Pier Paolo Pasolini (Life, death and miracles) F Nicola Pasqualicchio (Coordinator)
1° 2° You aint't heard nothing yet. The transition from the silents to the talkies (Bridge Film Festival) F Alberto Scandola (Coordinator)

Teaching code

4S007393

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

1 B dal Nov 14, 2022 al Dec 22, 2022.

Learning objectives

The course «Homeric and epic language and poetry» aims at offering to Students a large perspective on literary Greek, with special reference to lexical and morphological aspect of the archaic language; the course will also provide the Students with some methodological knowledge to read and comment analytically Greek literary texts. The main topics are Homer and the archaic epic, the so-called ‘Homeric Question’, the concepts of orality and formularity, as well as Homeric reception in other literary genres. At the end of the course students should have acquired deep knowledge of the language, the metrics, and the main themes of the Homeric and epic poetry. They should also be able to analyze, to comment and to translate Greek texts (with special reference to the Homeric language). Knowledge of Greek language is mandatory.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge of ancient Greek language is mandatory.

Program

1. The origins of the Greek epic
2. Phonology and morphology of the Homeric language
3. The Odyssey (with special reference to books 16-18)

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Main instruments:
M. Finkelberg (Ed.), The Homer Encyclopedia, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011; 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; A.-F. Christidis (Ed.), A History of Ancient Greek. From the Beginnigs to late Antiquity, Cambridge, CUP, 2007.

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.

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P. von der Mühll, Homeri Odyssea, Basel, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1962.
Homerus, Odyssea, recensuit et testimonia congessit M.L. West, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2017.
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Odissea, voll. I-VI, a cura di S. West, J.B. Hainsworth, A. Heubeck, A. Hoekstra, J. Russo, M. Fernández-Galiano, trad. it. di G.A. Privitera, Milano, Mondadori (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla), 1981-1986.
Odissea, a cura di V. Di Benedetto, trad. di V. Di Benedetto e P. Fabrini, Milano, BUR, 2010.
Homer, Odyssey, Books XVII and XVIII, edited by D. Steiner, Cambridge, CUP, 2010.

(More material will be made available during the lessons)

Bibliography

Visualizza la bibliografia con Leganto, strumento che il Sistema Bibliotecario mette a disposizione per recuperare i testi in programma d'esame in modo semplice e innovativo.

Didactic methods

Lectures (36 hours)

Learning assessment procedures

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

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 aspects of Greek epic (cf. the Companion in the Syllabus).

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Erasmus students will be informed during the lectures about the oral examination.

Exam language

Italiano