STORIA DELLA LINGUA GRECA

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT256

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DI MARZIO MARIALUIGIA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

The ability to read Greek texts in the original language is obligatory.

Objectives

Teaching will contribute to achievement of the learning objectives of the Degree Course in Philology, Linguistics and literary traditions, in accordance with the following coordinates:
• KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING: to consolidate and develop grammatical, syntactical and lexical skills; to master the outlines of the history of the Greek language from both the diachronic and diatopic viewpoint and that of the differentiation between literary genres;
• INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGEMENT: to acquire clear autonomy of judgement in the analysis of ancient Greek texts and in their collection and organization.
• COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS:
- To acquire sufficient skills to expose, communicate and explain linguistic problems to a specialised audience with appropriate terminology;
- To communicate to non-specialists, also through innovative methods, the singularities and richness of a classical world that can and must play a highly important role in the building of new cultural directions in collaboration with scholars from other scientific fields and professionals from the business

Contents

Extended Syllabus

Through elements of historical grammar and dialectology the course aims to deepen knowledge of ancient Greek in relation to the various chronological phases and poetic and literary genres.
An initial 6 hour module will be dedicated to the pre-Aristophanic comic tradition and to the Syracusan comedy of Epicharmus in Doric dialect.
Then we will focus in particular on the Attic dialect, mainly through the reading and the linguistic, metric, stylistic, historical and literary study of the text of the Wasps of Aristophanes. The following sections of the Wasps will be read in detail at lessons:
• The prologue (vv. 1-229)
• The parodos (vv. 230-314)
• Philocleon’s monody (vv. 317a-334).
• The epirrhematic agon (vv. 526-727)
• The second parabasis (vv. 1265-1291)
• Sections from the final scenes (frm vv. 1122-1538)
Over and above the more general historical-literary problems, the linguistic, metric and stylistic singularities will be studied in depth.
Reference texts for exam preparation. One manual chosen from:
• A.C. Cassio, Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2008.
• M. Morani, Introduzione alla linguistica greca: il greco tra le lingue indoeuropee, Edizioni dell’Orso 1999.
Greek lyrics required reading: G. Perrotta- B. Gentili- C.Catenacci (eds.), Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica, D’Anna, Messina-Firenze 2007.

The following editions of The Wasps will be used:
• N.G. Wilson, Aristophanis Fabulae, I, Oxford University Press, Oxonii 2007.
• Z. P. Biles- S. Douglas Olson, Aristophanes. Wasps, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.
Recommended Italian translation and commentary: E. Fabbro [ed.], Aristofane. Le Vespe, Milano 2012.
Further study texts on problems in Aristophanes’ text will be supplied at the start of the course.

Recommended Bibliography

Reference texts for exam preparation. A manual chosen from:
• A.C. Cassio, Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2008.
• M. Morani, Introduzione alla linguistica greca: il greco tra le lingue indoeuropee, Edizioni dell’Orso 1999.
To read more about Greek poets it is necessary to study: G. Perrotta- B. Gentili- C.Catenacci (eds.), Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica, D’Anna, Messina-Firenze 2007.
The following editions of The Wasps will be used:
• N.G. Wilson, Aristophanis Fabulae, I, Oxford University Press, Oxonii 2007.
• Z. P. Biles- S. Douglas Olson, Aristophanes. Wasps, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.

Recommended Italian translation and comment: E. Fabbro [ed.], Aristofane. Le Vespe, Milano 2012.
Further texts on the problems in Aristophanes’ text will be supplied at the beginning of the course.

Teaching Methods

The main teaching method will be frontal teaching; however, group work will also be provided, which will produce seminar meetings at the end of the course, to develop students’ autonomous research and communications skills.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Written and oral exam with final single mark. The written exam consists of translation of an ancient Greek text into Italian and will be assessed on the following scale: excellent, very good, good, discrete, sufficient, insufficient. In order to be admitted to the oral, the written test must be passed with the minimum assessment of sufficient.

Contacts/More Information

Further texts will be supplied during the lessons.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with texts to be agreed with the teacher.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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