Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the literary forms and of the stylistic devices of the archaic and classical Greek literature

Program

Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy

Texts
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Sophocles, Antigone, Euripides, Trojan Women.


Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoedias, edidit D. Page, Oxford, 1972; Sophoclis fabulae, recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt H. Lloyd-Jones et N.G. Wilson, Oxford 1990; Euripidis fabulae I-III, edidit J. Diggle, Oxford 1981-1994.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, edited with a Commentary by E. Fraenkel, I-III, Oxford 1950;
Sophocles, Antigone, edited by M. Griffith, Cambridge 1999;
Euripides, Troades, Edited with Introduction and Commentary by K.H. Lee, London 1976.

Further readings: A.E. Harvey, The classification of Greek lyric poetry, «CQ» n.s. V (1955) 157-175; L.E. Rossi, I generi letterari e le loro leggi scritte e non scritte nelle letterature classiche, «BICS» XVIII (1971) 69-94; C. Calame, Réflections sur les genres littéraires en Grèce archaïque, «QUCC» XVII (1974) 113-128; S.L. Schein, Narrative Technique in the parodos of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon”, in Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature, Edited by J. Grethlein and A. Rengakos, Berlin-New York 2009, 377-398.


L.A. Swift, The Hidden Chorus. Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric, Oxford 2010; R. Garner, From Homer to Tragedy. The Art of Allusion in Greek Poetry, London-New York 1990.

Examination Methods

Oral examination