Greek Poetry
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2017-2018
01013041
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
- Theoretical presentation by the teachers
- Reading and literary analysis of texts by Homer, Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Pindar, Bacchylides, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius.
- Discussion in class
Learning Outcomes
This subject aims to present the main questions pertaining to Greek non-dramatic poetry in the archaic, classical and hellenistic periods. The focus is upon the following genres: epic, didactic poetry, monodic and choral lyric, idyll and elegy. By the end of the semester the student should have an overview of how these genres developped in the different periods from Homer to Alexandria.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The syllabus consists in reading and analysing the following authors and works: Homer (Iliad and Odyssey), Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days), Sappho, Alcaeus and Anacreon (monody), Pindar and Bacchylides (victory ode), Callimachus (various genres), Theocritus (idyll), Apollonius (Hellenistic epic).
Head Lecturer(s)
Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Participation in classroom: 20.0%
Exam: 80.0%
Bibliography
HUNTER, R.L., The Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary Studies, Cambridge, new edition, 2005.
HUTCHINSON, G.O., Greek Lyric Poetry, Oxford, 2000.
LOURENÇO, F. (org.), Ensaios sobre Píndaro, Lisboa, 2006.
WEST, M.L., The Making of the Iliad, Oxford, 2011.