HISTORY OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

FLT029N2

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Degree:

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

Disciplinary Sector:

GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Is part of:

GREEK LANGUAGE & LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DI MARZIO MARIALUIGIA

Cycle:

Second 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 8 hour module will be dedicated to the fundamental characteristics of the elegy. Then we will focus on the direct reading of the texts of the elegiac authors, going into the linguistic choice of dialect, the historical and performative contexts.
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 (a cura di), Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica, D’Anna, Messina-Firenze 2007.

The following edition of elegiac Poetry will be used:
M.L. West, Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, voll. 1-2, Oxford 1989-1992.

A selection of five articles:
E. Bowie, Early Greek Elegy, Symposium and Public Festivals, ‘JHS’ 106, 1986, 13-35.
A. Aloni, L’elegia di Simonide dedicata alla battaglia di Platea (Sim. Frr. 10-18 W.2) e l’occasione della sua performance, ‘ZPE’ 102, 1994, 9-22.
L. Sbardella, Achille e gli eroi di Platea. Simonide frr. 10-11 W.2, ‘ZPE’ 129, 2000, 1-11.

da L. Swift- Ch. Carey (edd.), Iambus et Elegy. New Approaches, Oxford 2016:
E. Bowie, Cultic Contexts for Elegiac Performance
C. Nobili, Choral Elegy
D. Boedeker, Coarse Poetics: Listening to Hipponax,
D. Lavigne, Archilochus and Homer in the Rhapsodic Context
A. Rotstein, The Ancient Literary History of Iambos
C. Carey, Mapping Iambos: Mining the Minor Talents
D. Sider, Simonides' Personal Elegies
A. Iannucci- A. ALoni, Writing Solon
A. Nicolosi, Archilochus' Elegiac Fragments: Textual and Exegetical Notes
L. Lulli, Elegy and Epic: A Complex Relationship
M. Alexandrou, Mythological Narratives in Hipponax
T. Hawkins, Bupalus in Scheria: Hipponax's Odyssean Transcontextualizations
L. Swift, Poetics and Precedents in Archilochus' Erotic Imagery
Ch. Brown, Warding Off a Hailstorm of Blood: Pindar on Martial Elegy
P. da Cunha Correa, The 'Ship of Fools' in Euenus 8b and Plato's Republic 488a-489a
AJ. Nelson Hawkins, Anger, Bile, and the Poet's Body in the Archilochean Tradition

Further texts on Balbilla's lines will be supplied at the beginning 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 (a cura di), Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica, D’Anna, Messina-Firenze 2007.

The following edition of elegiac Poetry will be used:
M.L. West, Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, voll. 1-2, Oxford 1989-1992.

Further texts on Balbilla's lines 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:

The final assessment consists of a written and an oral exam with final single mark. The written exam consists of a translation of an ancient Greek text into Italian. In order to be admitted to the oral exam, the written test must be passed with the minimum assessment of sufficient (18).
The aim is to assess students' skills and, in particular, a understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course program, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours: 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours excellent.

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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