13522 - Greek Grammar (1)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to know the historical grammar of Greek language; to be able to explain its major phenomena within the Indoeuropean linguistic system; to appreciate stylistic features and peculiarities of the texts read during the course; to know the guidelines of formal philology and history of tradition, in order to analyze and place the literary documents under exam in their historical and communicative contexts, paying attention to their transmission channels. She/he is also expected to know the main lines of the history of ancient Greek linguistics and literary criticism, on the basis of the reading of ancient texts belonging to these domains, and to be able to compare their assumptions to modern and contemporary scholarship.

Course contents

1) Elements of historical morphology of ancient Greek.

2) Reading and historical-morphological analysis of passages from texts by different authors and belonging to different literary genres.

For attending the course, a complete knowledge of the structures of ancient Greek is required.

Hours and days: Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 1-3 pm, Aula Mansarda (Via Zamboni 32).

BEGINNING OF THE COURSE: 11 NOVEMBER 2024.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/ studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes.

The reading of one of the following handbooks is required: V. Garulli-C. Neri, Morfologia e storia del greco antico, Roma, Carocci, 2024; L. Heilmann, Grammatica storica della lingua greca, Torino, Sei, 1963; P. Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, Paris, Klincksieck, 1947.

See also C. Neri (et all.), Μέθοδος. Corso di lingua e cultura greca. Grammatica, Firenze, D’Anna, 2018.

We also recommend: O. Szemerényi, Introduzione alla linguistica indoeuropea, Milano, Unicopli, 1985; F. Fanciullo, Introduzione alla linguistica storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011; A.C. Cassio (ed.), Storia delle lingue letterarie greche, Milano 2016 (second edition).

Attending the course is crucial for learning how to prepare for the exam. Students who cannot attend the course are not required to use an alternative bibliography.

For the exam, students are expected to read, translate and discuss from a historical-morphological point of view the texts analysed during the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures will outline a systematic historical morphology of ancient Greek, within the frame of Indoeuropean languages.

Assessment methods

Una prima verifica dell'apprendimento avverrà già durante le lezioni, quando gli studenti saranno sollecitati a ragionare sulle forme e ad applicare l’analisi storico-morfologica al greco antico.

A first assessment will be carried out to begin with during the course, where the students will be invited to analyse some Greek inflected forms.

The oral examination will be an interview in which the teacher, through a series of questions, will test the theoretical knowledge and the theoretical-practical methodologies as explained during the lectures. In particular, the student will be invited to read one of  the texts analysed during the course, to give a translation and to highlight and comment the grammatical phenomena found in that passage.

As a result, the student may be asked to analyze from a grammatical point of view any Greek word found in the text read. The candidate will pass the exam by proving to understand very well the Greek text, to have a firm knowledge of the grammatical structures of ancient Greek, and to be able to place them into a historical perspective. In this case, the evaluation ranges from 18 to 30 cum laude depending on how sure, well-founded, precise and rigorous will be the answers of the candidate.

The maximum grade (30L) requires accurate and complete answers to all questions posed during the oral examination. The exam will be deemed to have been passed (with variable evaluation depending on the quality of the answers) if the candidate has answered in a precise and complete manner to most questions. As for the theoretical knowledge and the translation and exegesis of the texts, the metric is the following: outstanding: 30L; excellent: 28-30; good: 25-27; discrete: 22-24; sufficient: 18-21.

Exam registration must be made through AlmaEsami at the following website: https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm [https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2021/Exam registration must be made through AlmaEsami at the following website: https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm]

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities. It is necessary to contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/ studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

PC, projector, virtual board, Virtuale.unibo.

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Garulli