GREEK AND LATIN RHETORIC

Massimo LAZZERI GREEK AND LATIN RHETORIC

0322200068
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
EQF7
ANCIENT PHILOLOGY, LITERATURES AND HISTORY
2024/2025

YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
945LESSONS
ExamDate
APPELLO RISERVATO AI F.C.08/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO RISERVATO AI F.C.08/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO STUDENTI CON 94 CFU08/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO STUDENTI CON 94 CFU08/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO GENNAIO21/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO GENNAIO21/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO FEBBRAIO11/02/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO FEBBRAIO11/02/2025 - 09:00
Objectives
THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK AND LATIN RHETORIC; TO CONSOLIDATE LINGUISTIC SKILLS THROUGH THE DIRECT READING OF TEXTS ADDRESSED IN A RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVE, IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES; TO PLACE TEXTS, AUTHORS AND PHENOMENA WITHIN A TRADITION OF GENRES AND A BROADER CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
HE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO
- APPLY THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GREEK AND LATIN TEXTS AND THEIR COLLOCATION AND CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PANORAMA OF RHETORIC
- UNDERSTAND AND DISCUSS, WITH CORRECT TERMINOLOGY, ASPECTS AND TOPICS RELATED TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS
- ACQUIRE THE BASICS OF AN ECLECTIC AND VERSATILE COGNITIVE ABILITY
- INTERACT WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONTIGUOUS DISCIPLINARY AREAS.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- START AN AUTONOMOUS PROCESS OF ELABORATION OF THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, LINKING ITS ORIGINS FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS.

AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE, THROUGH THE INVESTIGATIVE TOOLS ACQUIRED, TO FORM AN AUTONOMOUS JUDGMENT AROUND THE VARIOUS THEMES ESTABLISHED BY THE GREEK-LATIN TRADITION, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISCIPLINE AND THE PROPOSED TEXTS.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO REPRESENT AND COMMUNICATE, IN A CLEAR MANNER, WITH ADEQUATE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE, USING TEXTS OR VIRTUAL TOOLS, THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH OR OWN ELABORATIONS CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO CORRECT INVESTIGATION METHODS.

LEARNING ABILITY
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- USE TRADITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND THE RESOURCES FOR ANALYSIS AND ARCHIVING
- CARRY OUT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, UNDERSTAND, INTERPRET AND CLASSIFY COMPLEX LITERARY AND PARALITERARY TEXTS OF GREEK AND LATIN RHETORIC OR RELATED
- PROCEED TO THE CONTINUOUS UPDATING OF ONE'S KNOWLEDGE, USING THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF EACH ERA IN A CONTINUOUS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE.
Prerequisites
SOLID KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES
Contents
THE COURSE WILL FOCUS ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE FIGURE OF ODYSSEUS 'RHETOR', THROUGH THE READING AND ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED TEXTS, FROM THE ARCHAIC PERIOD TO THE LATE ANTIQUITY, AMONG THE MANY IN WHICH THE REPRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS THIS PARTICULAR TRAIT OF THE HERO, ABLE TO PRONOUNCE 'WORDS AS DENSE AS SNOWFLAKES IN WINTER' (IL. 3, 222).
Teaching Methods
FRONTAL LESSONS, OPEN TO INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WHICH PROMOTES A CONSTANT CHECK OF THE DEGREE OF UNDERSTANDING AND RECEPTION OF THE TOPICS
Verification of learning
ORAL FINAL EXAM.
THE EXAM WILL VERIFY:
THE ACQUISITION OF A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK AND LATIN RHETORIC;
THE ABILITY TO ANALYZE AND DISCUSS TEXTS WITH APPROPRIATE TERMINOLOGY;
THE ABILITY TO CRITICALLY DISCUSS RHETORICAL STRUCTURES
THE ABILITY OF A CORRECT CRITICAL FRUITION OF THE TEXTS AND A CAREFUL EXEGETICAL PRACTICE.
Texts
IT WILL BE PROPOSED THE READING OF PASSAGES IN GREEK AND LATIN, AND IN TRANSLATION, IN PARTICULAR FROM THE ILIAD, BOOKS III AND IX; FROM THE FRAGMENTS OF ANTISTHENES OF ATHENS, AND FROM OTHER AUTHORS, GREEK AND LATIN.
REFERENCE TEXTS:
D. B. MUNRO-TH. W. ALLEN, HOMERI OPERA, RECOGNOVERUNT BREVIQUE ADNOTATIONE CRITICISM INSTRUXERUNT D. B. M. AND TH. W. A., TOMUS I, OXFORD CLASSICAL TEXTS, OXONII 1920 (THIRD EDITION);
F. DECLEVA CAIZZI, ANTISTHENIS FRAGMENTA, COLLEGIT F. D. C., ISTITUTO EDITORIALE CISALPINO, MILAN-VARESE 1966;
L. PERNOT, THE RHETORIC OF THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS, PALUMBO EDITORE, PALERMO 2006
More Information
OTHER USEFUL MATERIAL WILL BE PROVIDED DURING THE COURSE, WHICH IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO ATTEND
Lessons Timetable

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