Selected Topics in Greek Literature DD 2/I

Two-year (four-semester) cycle for students of the first three years.
Lectures on a selected topic are supplemented by individual work (general survery of Greek literature). Each semester course is composed of a brief survey of the selected topic and the presentation of an exemplary case. The analysis of a particular text provides an introduction into the methods of philological work.
Individual work includes surveys of four periods of classical Greek literature, with examinations attached to the regular exams; the order of the four periods is free, provided that all of them are assessed by the end of fourth semester:

- preclassical period
- classical p.
- Hellenistic p.
- Roman age.

Main subjects:
epic poetry (Homer)
lyric poetry of preclassical period
historiography
tragedy
comedy,
Hellenistic literature
ancient novel and epistolography
Hellenistic Jewish and Christian literature

Seminary reading of texts from any period of ancient Greek literature. Introduction to philological methods, defining and solving interpretative issues

Obvezna:
- M. Marinčič, Grška književnost arhaične dobe. Zgodovinski, problemski in bibliografski uvod, Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta 2004, 210 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 215041536
- S. Said, M. Trédé, Short History of Greek Literature, London 1999, 218 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 215041536

Eden od dveh navedenih priročnikov po izbiri:
- A. Lesky, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, Bern 31971, 974 str. (hrvaški prevod 2001) COBISS.SI-ID – 14551906
- P. E. Easterling, B. M. W. Knox (ur.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, 1: Greek Literature, Cambridge 1985, 960 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 29748066

Dodatna:
- T. Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature, Cambridge 2004, 284 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 37698658
- R. Cantarella, Grška književnost, Trst s. a., 564 str. (že precej zastarel, a edini celovit pregled grške književnosti v slovenščini) COBISS.SI-ID – 5339392

Bibliography to individual thematic units is provided according to the choice of topic.