LETTERATURA GRECA A MOD. 1

Introduction to Greek literature, with special regard to lyric poetry and tragedy.

The chorus from lyric to drama.

The students planning to attend this course are required to have a good knowledge of ancient Greek.

This Greek Literature course is a 12 CFU joined course, formed by two 6 CFU each parts. Students can decide wether they want to indicate in their career plane the shole course or a single part of it, according to the demands of their study plan or their degree course.

This course aims at offering a critical introduction to Greek lyric, mainly choral, and tragedy. In particular, the role played by the chorus in the two aforementioned genres will be explained in details thanks to the reading of passages in the original language.

The complete reading list will be provided at the end of the course and published on the web site.

The exam program includes both the subjects treated during classes and a list of further readings in Italian translation, which is five Olympian odes by Pindar, the Dithyrambs of Bacchylides, the Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles.

The institutional part of the exam program, the same for every course in L-FIL-LET/02 (a reading list of Greek texts and/or literary history) will be included in the didactic material of each professor and will be explained and the beginning of the course.

Camillo Neri, Breve storia della lirica greca, Carocci Roma 2010.

Massimo Di Marco, La tragedia greca. Forma, gioco scenico, tecniche drammatiche. Carocci Roma 2010.

or as an alternative

Giulio Guidorizzi (a cura), Introduzione al teatro greco, Mondadori univ.

The students taking their degrees in Greek literature will have to read also:

John Herington: Poetry into Drama. Early Tragedy and the Greek Poetic Tradition, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1985.