The aim of the course is the acquisition of advanced knowledge and the improvement of the skills previously acquired in the field of Greek literature. Through the study and translation of a text or a selection of different texts in the original language according to a research and investigation path presented on the same from various points of view (historical, literary, philological and performative or dramaturgical), also through laboratory or seminar experiences, the student will be able to acquire a wide-ranging critical and philological methodological competence that allows him to face the exegesis of any other Greek literary text, from the archaic age to the Hellenistic age.
Curriculum
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Programme
The sophistic movement was a cultural and intellectual revolution in fifth-century Athens and Greece. They defied traditional paideia, but unfortunately only a fraction of their texts has been transmitted by ancient sources. A selection of key texts will be the basis for an assessment of crucial aspects of the sophistic revolution (myth, ethics, politics, intellectual paideia). The following texts will be discussed and commented upon in class (the references are to the sixth edition of pre-Socratic philosophers by Diels and Kranz): Protagoras, 80 B1-4, C 1; Gorgias, 82 B 11 (encomium of Helen) and 11a (Palamedes’ apology); Prodicus of Ceos, 84 B 1-2 (Heracles at the crossroads); Thrasymachus, 85 B 1; Antiphon, 87 B 44, 44a, 49, 53, 54, 58-61; Critias, 88 B 1, 2, 4, 5, 25 (from the Sisyphus).Core Documentation
The selection of texts discussed in class will be circulated via the website of the teacher (http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/mgiuseppetti/bacheca/). Students are also encouraged to read M. Untersteiner, I sofisti, Mondadori, Milan 1996; M. Bonazzi, I sofisti, Carocci, Rome 2010.Type of delivery of the course
36 hours, 6 CFU, II term. A selection of key texts will be the basis for an assessment of crucial aspects of the sophistic revolution (myth, ethics, politics, intellectual paideia).Type of evaluation
A few questions on one or more texts among those discussed in class. teacher profile teaching materials
Programme
The sophistic movement was a cultural and intellectual revolution in fifth-century Athens and Greece. They defied traditional paideia, but unfortunately only a fraction of their texts has been transmitted by ancient sources. A selection of key texts will be the basis for an assessment of crucial aspects of the sophistic revolution (myth, ethics, politics, intellectual paideia). The following texts will be discussed and commented upon in class (the references are to the sixth edition of pre-Socratic philosophers by Diels and Kranz): Protagoras, 80 B1-4, C 1; Gorgias, 82 B 11 (encomium of Helen) and 11a (Palamedes’ apology); Prodicus of Ceos, 84 B 1-2 (Heracles at the crossroads); Thrasymachus, 85 B 1; Antiphon, 87 B 44, 44a, 49, 53, 54, 58-61; Critias, 88 B 1, 2, 4, 5, 25 (from the Sisyphus).Core Documentation
The selection of texts discussed in class will be circulated via the website of the teacher (http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/mgiuseppetti/bacheca/). Students are also encouraged to read M. Untersteiner, I sofisti, Mondadori, Milan 1996; M. Bonazzi, I sofisti, Carocci, Rome 2010.Type of delivery of the course
36 hours, 6 CFU, II term. A selection of key texts will be the basis for an assessment of crucial aspects of the sophistic revolution (myth, ethics, politics, intellectual paideia).Type of evaluation
A few questions on one or more texts among those discussed in class.