Università Roma Tre

Course Name: Ancient Greek Literature LM I (= Master’s Degree) (6 CFU)

Students of this course will acquire advanced knowledge on Greek literature, improving their competence. Reading and translating a text (or a selection of texts) in original language, they will acquire exegetical competence, in order to examine Greek literature in many respects, including linguistic, historical, philological, performative, and dramaturgic issues. This course also includes workshops in order to provide students with a very diversified philological competence, making them able to read complex Greek texts, dealing with textual reconstruction and philological problems

The aim of the course is the acquisition of advanced knowledge and the improvement of the skills previously acquired in the field of Greek literature. Through the study and translation of a text or a selection of different texts in the original language according to a research and investigation path presented on the same from various points of view (historical, literary, philological and performative or dramaturgical), also through laboratory or seminar experiences, the student will be able to acquire a wide-ranging critical and philological methodological competence that allows him to face the exegesis of any other Greek literary text, from the archaic age to the Hellenistic age.