ARCHAIC GREEK LITERATURE

GREEK UTOPIAS
Golden Ages, Utopias, Lands of Cockaigne, Isles of the Blessed in Greek Literature.
Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Crates, Lucian.
Linguistic analysis and commentary of Ancient Greek texts in verses and prose. Increase of linguistic, grammatical and literary accomplishments. Reading and knowledge of worthwhile works of Greek Literature in the original language. Knowledge of the outlines of the history of Greek Literature in the Archaic Age.

e course aims to train specific skills in the archaic Greek literature, with the ability to evaluate the peculiar characteristics of orality, of the aurality and of the cultural functions within the society and of the polis between the archaic age and the beginning of the classical world.
In relation to the themes of ancient utopia, the course aims to create the autonomous skills of applying the theoretical knowledge acquired.

The class is open to all students of the first three years with a training in Greek language.
For a good result it is useful to attend the GREEK LITERATURE EXERCISES that are held in the first semester to train adequate skills on the metric and on the problems of interpretation and translation of ancient texts.

ANCIENT GREEK UTOPIAS
The class offers a broad survey on Utopia images in ancient Greece, on the ideal and happy worlds of Greek literature through the analysis of a series of texts in the original language. We will be examined the myth of the five ages and particularly the golden age in Hesiod, the utopian world of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey, the utopia of peace in Aristophanes, with the frames of the world turned upside down and of the land of Cockaigne, the utopian and paradoxical island of the cynic philosopher Crates of Thebes, the Island of the Blessed (with its opposite of the island of the damned) in the True Stories of Lucian of Samosata.The class concerns linguistic and metrical questions, problems and theory of Literature. It investigates the specific strategies of Ancient Comedy and Iambic and Satirical Tradition.

GREEK TEXTS
Hesiod, Works and Days (vv. 105-251).
Homer, Odyssey VII-VIII
Pindar
Aristophanes, Peace
Crates of Thebes, Pere (SH 351 = Diog. Laert. 6.85)
Lucian of Samosata, True Stories (2.4-32)

Omero, Odissea, vol. II, libri V-VIII, a cura di J.B. Hainsworth, trad. di G.A. Privitera, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Milano 2002.
Aristofane, La Pace, a cura di G. PADUANO, Milano, 2002.
Luciano di Samosata, Storia vera, a cura di Q. Cataudella, BUR, Milano 1990.
The Greek texts of Hesiod, Homer and Crates of Thebes will be provided by the teacher.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. FARIOLI, Mundus alter. Utopie e distopie nella commedia greca antica, Milano 2001, pp. 3-26.
M. FUSILLO, The Mirror of the Moon: Lucian's A True Story – From Satire to Utopia, in S. Swain (ed.), Oxford readings in the Greek novel, Oxford 1999, 351-381
G. MASTROMARCO - P. TOTARO, Storia del Teatro greco, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2008 (Cap. 7 La commedia, pp. 165-191, Cap. 8 Aristofane, pp. 192-229).
A. CAMEROTTO, Come diventare un eroe. Le virtù e le imprese di Trygaios Athmoneus, Incontri triestini di filologia classica 6, 2006-2007, 257-287.
A. CAMEROTTO, Guerra e pace. Poteri della parodia, in Diafonie. Esercizi sul comico, Atti del Seminario di Studi (Venezia, 25 maggio 2006), a cura di A. Camerotto, Padova, S.A.R.G.O.N., 2007, pp. 129-154.
A. CAMEROTTO, Voci e suoni dall'Aldilà. L'utopia musicale dell'Elisio nelle Storie Vere di Luciano di Samosata, Musica e Storia 13, 2005, pp. 101-129.
A working bibliography will be supplied during the class.

Outline of Greek Literature: L.E. ROSSI, Letteratura greca, Le Monnier, Firenze 1995, pp. 1-226. For an introduction to Greek metrics see M.C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna 1995 (Cappelli).

The exam is an oral test and consists of the reading, translation and commentary of the greek texts. It includes a discussion of a subject from the history of Greek Literature.

Conventional. Metrical reading and interpretation of the text.
It is required a regular attendance at the lectures.

Italian

WORKSHOP OF GREEK LITERATURE
In connection with the course of Greek Literature II is held a seminar-workshop on metrics and on the problems of translation. The laboratory, with a regular attendance and a final report for each part, has the value of 2 CFU.

oral

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