Programme

Anacreontes' poetry.
The monographic course studies Anacreontes’ fragments and his late ancient imitators, as a laboratory for analysis, interpretation and textual criticism.

Core Documentation

- Paul Maas, La critica del testo, Traduzione a cura di Giorgio Ziffer, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2017;
- Poetae melici Graeci, edidit D.L. Page, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1962 (passim);
- Anacreon, edidit B. Gentili, Romae, in aedibus Athenaei, 1958 (passim);
- Carmina Anacreontea, edidit M. L. West, Leipzig, Teubner, 1984 (passim);
- photocopies provided by the teacher.

Reference Bibliography

- Poetae melici Graeci, edidit D.L. Page, Oxford 1962; - Anacreon, edidit B. Gentili, Romae, in aedibus Athenaei, 1958; - Carmina Anacreontea, edidit M. L. West, Leipzig, Teubner, 1984; - Poesia e simposio nella Grecia antica: Guida storica e critica, a cura di M. Vetta, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1983.

Type of delivery of the course

Didactic articulation: 6 cfu, semester I, 4 hours every week, 10 weeks. During frontal lessons, some representative Anacreontes' fragments handed down by indirect tradition or papyrus tradition will be read, interpreted metrically and commented and in parallel of the imitations that flourished during the following centuries, known today under the name of Anacreontea. Particular attention will be paid to the study of metric forms, to intertextual relations with the remaining Greek lyric tradition and to the poet's fortune in the Latin world. The textual material will be provided as a photocopy to the students and will also be downloadable from the teacher's internet page.

Attendance

The course requires the active participation of the students. Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with the texts indicated in the bibliography.

Type of evaluation

Oral exam. The exam will start from the metric reading and commentary on some of the texts examined during the lessons; subsequently the discussion will extend to more general aspects linked to the covered topics. The student must demonstrate the acquired linguistic, metric and philological competences. The evaluation will take into account the following elements: metric reading and translation of the text, classification in the historical-literary context, philological analysis and interpretation, intra-textual and inter-textual links.