Università Roma Tre

Part I of the course in GREEK LITERATURE (Profs. Cozzoli - Giuseppetti): Plato's Phaedrus

The course will take into exam some passages of Plato's Phaedrus, which will provide the basis for a discussion on the most significant aspects of Plato's thought. The dialogue is set in the surroundings of Athens, in the valley of the river Ilissus. This peaceful and idyllic space is the starting point for reflecting about some of the main themes of Plato's philosophical anthropology: the eros as mania (the famous myth of the winged chariot), the relationship between rhetoric and thruth, the value of the writing.

Possible propedeutics: Students are recommended to attend lessons. The course implies the knowledge of Greek.

Bibliography:

I part: The edition with translation and commentary edited by G. Reale, Platone: Fedro, Milano 1998; for occasional references consult the commentary by H. Yunis, Plato: Phaedrus, Cambridge 2011. Further bibliographical material will be available on the page http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/mgiuseppetti/bacheca/.

II part of the course of GREEK LITERATURE
Title of the course: The fall of Athens and the Utupia of the Comedy: Aristophanes's Frogs.

Athens is falling, his power is completed destroyed. What could promise the comic poet in his utopia to the his theatrical public?
What ould now save the city? The Aristophanes Frogs tell us something about this crical historical period

Bibliography of the second part of the course:
A good knowledge of Euripide's dramatic proiduction and notions of ancient dramaturgy are required. The following texts are recommended:
- E. Medda- V. Di Benedetto, La tragedia sulla scena, Torino 1997, Einaudi
- E V. Di Benedetto, Euripide: teatro e società, Torino Einaudi 1971.

With regards to the text of Euripides, students can choose any edition provided with translation; the one by J. Diggle, Oxford Classical Texts, tomo III, 1994 is recommended.