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Teacher
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GIUSEPPETTI MASSIMO
(syllabus)
The course will offer a historical outline of ancient Greek literature from its origins to the Roman age. A selection of key authors and texts will be translated and commented upon in class: Homer, Iliad 5.792-863 and Odyssey 17.290-327; Homeric Hymn to Apollo 146-176; Hesiod, Theogony 174-201; Archilocus, frr. 1, 5, 19 West; Hipponax, fr. 128 West; Solon, frr. 1-3 West; Xenophanes, frr. 1-2 West; Theognis, 19-38; Alcaeus, fr. 6 Voigt; Sappho, fr. 31 Voigt; Pindar, Pythians 1.1-40; Herodotus 3.80-83; Thucydides 1.20-23; Sophocles, Antigone 450-96; Aristophanes, Birds 904-57; Plato, Republic 487e-489a, 493a-c; Isocrates, Panathenaic 1-4; Lysias, Against Heratosthenes 4-13; Callimachus, Aetia frr. 67-75 Pfeiffer; Theocritus, Idylls 11.1-24; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.275-98.
(reference books)
Students must have a good knowledge of the history of Greek literature (any recent handbook will do). The selection of texts discussed in class will be circulated via the website of the teacher (http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/mgiuseppetti/bacheca/).
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Università Roma Tre