20702454-2 - LETTERATURA GRECA II L.M.

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

Callimachus and the Epigram

Core Documentation

G. B. D’Alessio. Callimaco. Opere, Milano 2007, BUR.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni)
L’Epigramma in M. Fantuzzi- R. Hunter, Muse e Modelli, Roma- Bari 2002, Laterza, pp. 389-482
B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995


Reference Bibliography

G. B. D’Alessio. Callimaco. Opere, Milano 2007, BUR. Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni) L’Epigramma in M. Fantuzzi- R. Hunter, Muse e Modelli, Roma- Bari 2002, Laterza, pp. 389-482 Per la metrica si consiglia: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995

Type of delivery of the course

Reading the Epigrams the Students will be introduced to the study of this Literary Hellenistic genre and to the constitution of the Callimacus’poetry anthology and to the literary Hellenistic poetry system. The students could also improve their knowledge of the Greek Metric, especially of Greek esameter.

Type of evaluation

EXAMINATION TYPE (oral) The type of examination is oral and evaluates: 1) the mastery of the subject 2) the ability in translating ancient Greek texts 3) the critical capacities and the skills in identifying and formulating philological and textual problems