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Laurea magistrale in Tradizione e interpretazione dei testi letterari - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Metrics and Poetry in Ancient Greece (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S007394
Teacher
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/02 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Period
CuCi 2 A, CuCi 2 B
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course offers a comprehensive insight of the metres and the rhythms of the Greek poetic tradition, with specific attention to: (a) the relation existing between metrics and textual interpretation; (b) the literary analysis of the texts. The course focuses on: - Prosody - Greek lyric metre - The textual transmission of poetry and its philological and exegetical tradition - The ancient sources on metrics - Ancient Greek music and rhythms. Students will become familiar with the specific vocabulary of the discipline, and will apply it to the textual and metrical analysis. They will also be able to recognize the main poetical forms, considered under a critical perspective and placed within the frame of the history of the discipline on a case-by-case basis (with special reference to companions, monographs, essays, and lexica focused on the topic). Knowledge of Greek language is mandatory.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Knowledge of ancient Greek language
Program
The course aims to illustrate the fundamental theoretical principles of metrics and rhythmics developed in ancient Greek culture and their relationship with musical performance, with the aim of providing tools and skills useful for reading and interpreting Greek poetic texts.
• The fundamental notions of metrics and rhythm (meter, rhythm and word; prosody and strophic; recited verses and lyrical verses; meters/rhythms and poetic genres).
• The theoretical reflection: birth and development of metric science (derivationist system vs. metra prototypa) and rhythmic science (Aristoxenus of Tarentum), production of the related treatises.
• From theory to practice: meter and rhythm in Greek musical documents.
• Case studies: the meters and rhythms of ancient drama (selection of passages with reading, analysis and commentary).
Recommended textbooks:
- C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna, Cappelli Editore, 1995.
- B. Gentili, L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2003.
Critical essays:
- M. Ercoles, La metrica greca oggi: principali ten-denze. Aggiornamento, in P. Maas, Metrica greca, Cesena, Stilgraf, 2016, pp. 197-267.
- E. Rocconi, Metro e ritmo nelle fonti di scuola aristossenica, «Lexis» 26, 2008, pp. 283-294.
- L. Lomiento, Ancient Greek Metrics and Music: Is It Time for a New Dialogue?, «Greek and Roman Musical Studies» 10.2, 2022, pp. 357-382.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Frontal teaching.
After an introduction focusing on the fundamentals of the discipline, some case studies will be examined, which will imply a seminar involvement of the course participants.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam will consist of an oral interview, in which the student will have to demonstrate:
- knowledge of the texts indicated in the bibliography and of the topics discussed in class;
- the ability to critically reflect on the main themes addressed, especially the most problematic ones;
- the ability to metrically read the main recited verses (hexameter and iambic trimeter) and to describe the lyrical verses;
- the ability to relate the metrical aspects with the musical documents.
The examination procedure is the same for both attending and non-attending students. Non-attending students have to read an additional essay, to be agreed upon with the professor.
Evaluation criteria
Each of the parts described above will be assigned a score, divided as follows:
- (up to a maximum of) 20 points;
- (up to a maximum of) 5 points;
- (up to a maximum of) 3 points;
- (up to a maximum of) 2 points.
The sum of the scores of the evaluations will form the final grade, expressed in thirtieths.
Exam language
Italiano
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