Greek Literature (advanced)
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The advanced course of Greek Literature aims to offer students the opportunity to further expand the critical knowledge of texts, themes and problems of Greek literature from its origins up to the Late Antiquity and Early Byzantine era.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students are expected to demonstrate an autonomous and complete knowledge of themes, authors and genres covered in the course, in their historical and cultural contexts: forms, chronological development, geographical location, fortune.
Skills
As learning outcomes, students are also expected to be able to analyse texts in their linguistic and dialectal aspects, in their stylistic and rhetorical levels, in their metric structures. Students are also expected to be acquainted with the main bibliographical and research tools
Students are expected to demonstrate an autonomous and complete knowledge of themes, authors and genres covered in the course, in their historical and cultural contexts: forms, chronological development, geographical location, fortune.
Skills
As learning outcomes, students are also expected to be able to analyse texts in their linguistic and dialectal aspects, in their stylistic and rhetorical levels, in their metric structures. Students are also expected to be acquainted with the main bibliographical and research tools
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The autobiographical writings of Galen
(60 hours, 9 credits)
Part A (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary on Galen, The Order of My Books and Galen, My Books.
Part B (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary on Galen, My Opinions.
Part C (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary—partly in seminar form with active student participation—on Galen, Imperturbability.
Non-attending students must agree on the program (which consists of additional readings and critical essays) with Prof. Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.
(60 hours, 9 credits)
Part A (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary on Galen, The Order of My Books and Galen, My Books.
Part B (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary on Galen, My Opinions.
Part C (20 hours, 3 credits): Reading and commentary—partly in seminar form with active student participation—on Galen, Imperturbability.
Non-attending students must agree on the program (which consists of additional readings and critical essays) with Prof. Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.
Prerequisites for admission
The advanced course in Greek Literature is intended for students in the Antiquarian curriculum of the three-year degree course in Literature who have already taken the Greek Literature examination (12 cfu) and who wish to deepen their study of the subject in a second year.
Knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature at university level is therefore required.
Knowledge of ancient Greek language and literature at university level is therefore required.
Teaching methods
In addition to traditional face-to-face lectures, alternative teaching methods will be experimented with that involve the active intervention of the students, with work that will be presented in the classroom following an exegetical scheme that will be previously presented and discussed.
These teaching methods are aimed at structuring and encouraging the autonomous analysis of literary texts in their complexity through the immediate use of the tools necessary to produce analysis of the text, commentary, translation and in-depth bibliography.
Texts, iconographic materials and documentation will be available on the My-Ariel platform.
Attendance at the course is strongly recommended.
These teaching methods are aimed at structuring and encouraging the autonomous analysis of literary texts in their complexity through the immediate use of the tools necessary to produce analysis of the text, commentary, translation and in-depth bibliography.
Texts, iconographic materials and documentation will be available on the My-Ariel platform.
Attendance at the course is strongly recommended.
Teaching Resources
A. Recommended editions:
1. Galen, Nuovi scritti autobiografici, Introduction, translation, and commentary by Mario Vegetti, Rome, Carocci, 2013 and subsequent reprints (for all four writings)
2. Galen, The Soul and Pain. De indolentia, De propriis principiis, edited by Ivan Garofalo and Alessandro Lami, Milan, BUR, 2012 and subsequent reprints (for the two writings Imperturbability and My Opinions).
3. Critical edition of reference for part C: Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. De Boor - P. Wirth, I-II, Stuttgartiae, 1978 (1904).
B. Lecture notes
C. The critical editions of reference (in particular those of the major editorial project of the Collection Budé and the Berlin Corpus Medicorum Graecorum), together with further bibliographical references for further study and useful references for independent bibliographical research and for the scientific study of the proposed texts, will be provided at the beginning of the course.
PLEASE NOTE: all materials and critical editions that are difficult to find will be made available to students on the My-Ariel website.
1. Galen, Nuovi scritti autobiografici, Introduction, translation, and commentary by Mario Vegetti, Rome, Carocci, 2013 and subsequent reprints (for all four writings)
2. Galen, The Soul and Pain. De indolentia, De propriis principiis, edited by Ivan Garofalo and Alessandro Lami, Milan, BUR, 2012 and subsequent reprints (for the two writings Imperturbability and My Opinions).
3. Critical edition of reference for part C: Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. De Boor - P. Wirth, I-II, Stuttgartiae, 1978 (1904).
B. Lecture notes
C. The critical editions of reference (in particular those of the major editorial project of the Collection Budé and the Berlin Corpus Medicorum Graecorum), together with further bibliographical references for further study and useful references for independent bibliographical research and for the scientific study of the proposed texts, will be provided at the beginning of the course.
PLEASE NOTE: all materials and critical editions that are difficult to find will be made available to students on the My-Ariel website.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination is an oral test aimed at ascertaining that the student has read the passages in the syllabus in the original and is able to translate and comment on them with critical autonomy, relating them to the underlying literary issues, clearly stating the contents and competently using the specialist vocabulary. The work presented in the classroom contributes to the final assessment using the same criteria, with particular emphasis on critical reasoning skills.
The assessment is in 30ths.
The assessment is in 30ths.
L-FIL-LET/02 - GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor:
Martinelli Tempesta Stefano
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