Course teached as: B019103 - LABORATORIO DI LINGUA GRECA 2 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDIES Curriculum LETTERE ANTICHE
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The prosody of Greek poetry; the most important metrical forms of ancient Greece; the peculiarities of Homeric language.
M. C. Martinelli, Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna, Cappelli 1997.
G. Devoto - A. Nocentini, La lingua omerica e il dialetto miceneo, Firenze, Sansoni 1975.
Learning Objectives
Acquiring the ability to understand the Homeric language and the metrical structure of the most important Greek verse forms, reading them correctly and fluently.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Greek language in its basic form as usually taught in both high school and first steps at the University (i.e. Attic dialect and koinè).
Teaching Methods
Lectures and exercises: the students will often be asked to read and translate.
Further information
No need to have already studied Greek metrics.
Type of Assessment
Questions, discussion and exercitations during the class; written examination at the end, consisting in the linguistic analysis of a Homeric passage and metrical scansion of dactylic and iambic texts.
Course program
The Homeric language.
Greek prosody.
The most important Greek verse forms: dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, iambic trimeter, choliamb, trochaic tetrameter, anapaests, dactylo-epitrites, Sapphic stanza, Alcaic stanza, Asclepiadeans.