Greek Literature

The course aims to provide the students with the basic informations about the Greek literature through his historical development, from the archaic period till the Roman- Imperial epoch.
The course will then offer a monographic close investigation about a specific theme, developed through readings and commentaries of texts, with the aim to offer to the students the various methods of approach to and analysis of the ancient Greek literary texts.
Along with the course, it will be possible to attend translation classes. Those who don't possess a preliminary knowledge of ancient Greek language can attend a specific class.

Knowledges
The course aims to lead the students to the knowledge of the major traits and issues of archaic, classical and Roman-Imperial Greek Literature. It will also be essential to contextualise authors and texts in their historical period, to learn some basic notions of metrics and rhetoric and to identify the various literary genres of lyric poetry and Greek prose.
Skills
Students will be asked to accurately read the texts and to gain an adequate skill in analysing their content and style, along with their meaning within their literary genre and historical context. Students will be guided in understanding and using the related scholarly literature and the basic bibliographic resources in order to allow them to autonomously widen their research on the matter. As a result, students will improve their communication skills and will be able to identify their own research interests and evaluate their own intellectual maturation.