Filologia, Letterature e Storia dell'Antichità | HISTORY OF GREEK

cod. 0322200049

HISTORY OF GREEK

	0322200049
	DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
	EQF7
	ANCIENT PHILOLOGY, LITERATURES AND HISTORY
	2018/2019

PERCORSO COMUNE

	YEAR OF COURSE 2
	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017
	PRIMO SEMESTRE

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	L-FIL-LET/02	9	45	LESSONS	COMPULSORY SUBJECTS, CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CLASS

	Objectives
	EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS: 1. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE (VOCABULARY, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY, METRE) AND ITS HISTORY, AS ATTESTED BY LITERARY AS WELL AS SELECT EPIGRAPHICAL TEXTS FROM VIII CENT. BCE TO VI CENT. CE; ACQUISITION OF ADVANCED SKILLS IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK LITERARY LANGUAGES, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, PROSODY, METRE, SYNTAX AND CONTENT OF AN ADEQUATE NUMBER OF TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASIC METHODS AND TOOLS OF HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THIS PARTICULAR CHRONOLOGICAL PERIOD, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ONLINE RESOURCES; ABILITY TO COPE WITH PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK LANGUAGE, AND TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, AND OF THESE LAST TO OTHER COMPONENTS OF CULTURE (SCIENCE, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, FINE ARTS), WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 2. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: A) IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS OF STUDY: ABILITY TO ANALYSE AND UNDERSTAND WITH ACCURACY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; TO IDENTIFY PERSONAL THEME-BASED ROUTES, AND INITIATE SELF-LEARNING PROCESSES IN SPECIFIC FIELDS OF RESEARCH; B) IN MORE GENERAL STUDY AND/OR WORK CONTEXTS: TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO ANALYSE COMPLEX SITUATIONS.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS: 1. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE (VOCABULARY, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY, METRE) AND ITS HISTORY, AS ATTESTED BY LITERARY AS WELL AS SELECT EPIGRAPHICAL TEXTS FROM VIII CENT. BCE TO VI CENT. CE; ACQUISITION OF ADVANCED SKILLS IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK LITERARY LANGUAGES, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, PROSODY, METRE, SYNTAX AND CONTENT OF AN ADEQUATE NUMBER OF TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASIC METHODS AND TOOLS OF HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THIS PARTICULAR CHRONOLOGICAL PERIOD, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ONLINE RESOURCES; ABILITY TO COPE WITH PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK LANGUAGE, AND TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, AND OF THESE LAST TO OTHER COMPONENTS OF CULTURE (SCIENCE, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, FINE ARTS), WITHIN THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 2. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: A) IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS OF STUDY: ABILITY TO ANALYSE AND UNDERSTAND WITH ACCURACY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; TO IDENTIFY PERSONAL THEME-BASED ROUTES, AND INITIATE SELF-LEARNING PROCESSES IN SPECIFIC FIELDS OF RESEARCH; B) IN MORE GENERAL STUDY AND/OR WORK CONTEXTS: TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO ANALYSE COMPLEX SITUATIONS.

	Prerequisites
	1. MASTERY OF WRITTEN AND ORAL ITALIAN (ABILITY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND WRITTEN TEXTS, TO LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND ORAL SPEECHES, TO EXTEMPORISE SUMMARIES OF THEM WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, ORALLY AND/OR IN WRITING; ABILITY TO PRODUCE, WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, WRITTEN AND ORAL REPORTS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS); 2. CONFIDENT KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE (VOCABULARY, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY, METRE) AND THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE; ABILITY TO CONSTRUE AND INTERPRET GREEK LITERARY TEXTS; 3. ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD; 4. ABILITY TO USE A HISTORICAL ATLAS; 5. ABILITY TO USE THE PRINCIPAL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF CLASSICS AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELD.

Prerequisites

1. MASTERY OF WRITTEN AND ORAL ITALIAN (ABILITY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND WRITTEN TEXTS, TO LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND ORAL SPEECHES, TO EXTEMPORISE SUMMARIES OF THEM WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, ORALLY AND/OR IN WRITING; ABILITY TO PRODUCE, WITH ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS, WRITTEN AND ORAL REPORTS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS); 2. CONFIDENT KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE (VOCABULARY, MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, PROSODY, METRE) AND THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE; ABILITY TO CONSTRUE AND INTERPRET GREEK LITERARY TEXTS; 3. ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD; 4. ABILITY TO USE A HISTORICAL ATLAS; 5. ABILITY TO USE THE PRINCIPAL ONLINE RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF CLASSICS AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELD.

	Contents
	OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK LITERARY LANGUAGES: EPIC POETRY, LYRIC POETRY (MONODIC AND CHORAL), ELEGY AND IAMBUS, TRAGEDY AND COMEDY, THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PROSE HISTORIOGRAPHY; THE KOINÈ; HELLENISTIC LITERATURE; READING, TRANSLATION INTO ITALIAN, HISTORIC-LINGUISTIC COMMENTARY OF A NUMBER OF SELECTED TEXTS (CF. REFERENCE TEXTS)

	Teaching Methods
	THE COURSE IS DIVIDED INTO 22 LECTURES OF 2 HOURS EACH AND 1 LECTURE OF 1 HOUR (45 HOURS IN TOTAL); THE LECTURES WILL BE DEVOTED TO READING, IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION INTO ITALIAN, TEXTUAL AND LITERARY ANALYSIS, EXEGETICAL AND HISTORICAL-LITERARY COMMENTARY OF THE TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME (SEE “CONTENUTI DEL CORSO, 3.”). DURING THE LECTURES, STUDENTS WILL BE INVOLVED INTO DISCUSSIONS ON TEXTS AND TEXTUAL PROBLEMS. ATTENDANCE AT THESE LECTURES IS NOT COMPULSORY. THOSE STUDENTS WHO DECIDE NOT TO ATTEND THE LECTURES MUST ANYWAY STUDY THE CONTENTS OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE REFERENCE TEXTS. THE LECTURES WILL BE DELIVERED IN ITALIAN; DURING THEM NUMEROUS TEXTS IN ANCIENT GREEK WILL BE READ, TRANSLATED INTO ITALIAN AND COMMENTED ON. CLARIFICATIONS AND EXPLANATION COULD BE GIVEN, ON REQUEST OF THE STUDENTS, AT THE END OF THE LECTURES; STUDENTS COULD ALSO WRITE TO THE PROFESSOR VIA EMAIL: A.MERIANI@UNISA.IT.

Teaching Methods

THE COURSE IS DIVIDED INTO 22 LECTURES OF 2 HOURS EACH AND 1 LECTURE OF 1 HOUR (45 HOURS IN TOTAL); THE LECTURES WILL BE DEVOTED TO READING, IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION INTO ITALIAN, TEXTUAL AND LITERARY ANALYSIS, EXEGETICAL AND HISTORICAL-LITERARY COMMENTARY OF THE TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMME (SEE “CONTENUTI DEL CORSO, 3.”). DURING THE LECTURES, STUDENTS WILL BE INVOLVED INTO DISCUSSIONS ON TEXTS AND TEXTUAL PROBLEMS. ATTENDANCE AT THESE LECTURES IS NOT COMPULSORY. THOSE STUDENTS WHO DECIDE NOT TO ATTEND THE LECTURES MUST ANYWAY STUDY THE CONTENTS OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE REFERENCE TEXTS. THE LECTURES WILL BE DELIVERED IN ITALIAN; DURING THEM NUMEROUS TEXTS IN ANCIENT GREEK WILL BE READ, TRANSLATED INTO ITALIAN AND COMMENTED ON. CLARIFICATIONS AND EXPLANATION COULD BE GIVEN, ON REQUEST OF THE STUDENTS, AT THE END OF THE LECTURES; STUDENTS COULD ALSO WRITE TO THE PROFESSOR VIA EMAIL: A.MERIANI@UNISA.IT.

	Verification of learning
	FOR ATTENDING AND NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ORDER TO CERTIFY THAT THEY ACHIEVED THE TEACHING OBJECTIVE, IT IS REQUIRED TO PASS AN EXAM, WHICH WILL CONSIST IN A DISCUSSION OF ABOUT 40 MINUTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE AND ON THE ADOPTED TEXTS (SEE THE SECTION “TESTI ADOTTATI”). GRADES ARE EXPRESSED ON A SCALE OF 30: THE MINIMUM SCORE TO PASS THE EXAM IS 18/30. DURING THE EXAM, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE EVALUATED: 1. CORRECTNESS AND ACCURACY OF INFORMATION; 2. ABILITY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS PERTINENTLY AND ACCURATELY; 3. ABILITY TO SPEAK CLEARLY, SHOWING ACCURACY AND ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS; 4. ABILITY TO RELATE CLEARLY, SHOWING ACCURACY AND ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS; 5. ABILITY TO PLACE THE HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA IN WIDER HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS; 6. ABILITY TO SYNTESISE. STUDENTS WHO WON’T HAVE DEMONSTRATED AN ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TOPICS ADDRESSED DURING THE COURSE, WITH REFERENCE TO THE PARAMETERS LISTED ABOVE, WON’T PASS THE EXAM. THOSE WHO WILL HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUCH A KNOWLEDGE, WILL BE AWARDED WITH GRADES FROM 18/30 TO 30/30 CUM LAUDE, DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPICS AND OF PERSONAL CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT; THE ‘CUM LAUDE’ GRADE WILL BE AWARDED TO THOSE WHO WILL HAVE DEMONSTRATED EXCELLENT MASTERY AND GIVEN PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOPICS.

Verification of learning

FOR ATTENDING AND NON ATTENDING STUDENTS, IN ORDER TO CERTIFY THAT THEY ACHIEVED THE TEACHING OBJECTIVE, IT IS REQUIRED TO PASS AN EXAM, WHICH WILL CONSIST IN A DISCUSSION OF ABOUT 40 MINUTES ON THE CONTENTS OF THE COURSE AND ON THE ADOPTED TEXTS (SEE THE SECTION “TESTI ADOTTATI”). GRADES ARE EXPRESSED ON A SCALE OF 30: THE MINIMUM SCORE TO PASS THE EXAM IS 18/30. DURING THE EXAM, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE EVALUATED: 1. CORRECTNESS AND ACCURACY OF INFORMATION; 2. ABILITY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS PERTINENTLY AND ACCURATELY; 3. ABILITY TO SPEAK CLEARLY, SHOWING ACCURACY AND ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS; 4. ABILITY TO RELATE CLEARLY, SHOWING ACCURACY AND ADEQUATE LANGUAGE SKILLS; 5. ABILITY TO PLACE THE HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA IN WIDER HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS; 6. ABILITY TO SYNTESISE. STUDENTS WHO WON’T HAVE DEMONSTRATED AN ADEQUATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TOPICS ADDRESSED DURING THE COURSE, WITH REFERENCE TO THE PARAMETERS LISTED ABOVE, WON’T PASS THE EXAM. THOSE WHO WILL HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUCH A KNOWLEDGE, WILL BE AWARDED WITH GRADES FROM 18/30 TO 30/30 CUM LAUDE, DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPICS AND OF PERSONAL CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT; THE ‘CUM LAUDE’ GRADE WILL BE AWARDED TO THOSE WHO WILL HAVE DEMONSTRATED EXCELLENT MASTERY AND GIVEN PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOPICS.

	Texts
	A. C. CASSIO (CUR.), STORIA DELLE LINGUE LETTERARIE GRECHE, LE MONNIER UNIVERSITÀ, FIRENZE 2016 (SECOND EDITION) OTHER TEXTS AND STUDY MATERIALS WILL BE COMMUNICATED DURING THE LECTURES, AND MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTP://DOCENTI.UNISA.IT/001411/DIDATTICA.

	More Information
	CLARIFICATIONS AND EXPLANATION COULD BE GIVEN, ON REQUEST OF THE STUDENTS, AT THE END OF THE LECTURES; STUDENTS COULD ALSO WRITE TO THE PROFESSOR VIA EMAIL: A.MERIANI@UNISA.IT.

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