ID:
24343
Dettaglio:
SSD: Greek Language and Literature
Duration: 36
CFU: 6
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
HUMANITIES - 24-R/Letterario Year: 1
Approval Status:
Draft
Year:
2025
"What is tradition?" "Is there a difference between the Ancient and the Classic?" "What do the Ancients still have to tell us?" These are questions that seem 'new' and have instead been asked repetitively, but never the same, throughout history. Students will be enabled to critically investigate, in the different historical and geographical contexts of reference, the continuous reception and reworking of the cultural heritage of antiquity, even when the latter is a priori denied. In this way, students will acquire specific skills and competences regarding the importance of cultural 'filters'.
No prior knowledge of Greek and Latin language and literature is required.
Lectures, sometimes accompanied by PowerPoint presentations and handouts. This material, published on the course Moodle channel, is an integral part of the examination programme. During the course, some internal workshops may be held.
The oral examination is a dialogue that is not limited to theoretical aspects, but aims to explore the student's ability to think critically and express themselves correctly in light of the technical specificity of the course.
The course will be divided into three parts. The first part will present the methods used in ancient times to create, use and preserve literary and documentary texts. The main centres of teaching and knowledge transmission in the Mediterranean world will be analysed and compared, with particular attention paid to the delicate historical transition from oral civilisation to book civilisation. The second part will focus on the long historical phase from late antiquity to the invention of printing, both in the Western and Eastern cultural contexts. It will examine not only the different ways in which ancient culture was copied and reused, but also the divergent conceptions of classicism that developed in the Latin and Byzantine worlds respectively. The third part will focus on some of the salient stages in the reflection on the recovery of the ancient world – and, in general, on the meaning of studying the past – in the modern and contemporary age.
If teaching is delivered in a blended or distance learning format, changes may be made to the Syllabus in order to make the course and examinations accessible in these formats. - Please refer to the LEGANTO application for reference texts (for attending and non-attending students).