Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature

The formation of a general view of ancient Greek grammatology from its beginnings to the Hellenistic period. Oral tradition and written speech. Literary genres and their importance.

Week #1. Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature.

Week #2 - #3: Classic philology and auxiliary sciences, literature and society in antiquity, classic text tradition.

Week #4: Heroic Epic (oral tradition and written texts, and Homeric epics’ structure and composition).

Week #5: Hesiod (his relation to tradition, influences, resources).

Week #6: Lyric poetry (elegies, iambic poetry, melic poetry).

Week #7: Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon).

Week #8 - #9: Philosophy and science (Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates).

Week #10 - #11: Rhetoric (Isocrates, Lysias, Demosthenes, Aeschines).

Week #12 - #13: Selected epic texts, lyric poetry, philosophy, rhetoric and historiography

• E. Easterling – B.M.W. Knox, Ἱστορία τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς λογοτεχνίας, μτφρ. N. Κονομῆς κ.ἄ., ἐκδ. Παπαδήμας, Ἀθήνα 1994²·
• Lesky, Ἱστορία τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς λογοτεχνίας, μτφρ. Ἀ.Γ. Τσοπανάκης, ἐκδ. Κυριακίδης, Θεσσαλονίκη 2014 (νέα ἔκδοση, ἀναθεωρημένη)·
• H.-G. Nesselrath (ἐπιμ.), Εἰσαγωγὴ στὴν ἀρχαιογνωσία, τόμ. Α΄, Ἀρχαία Ἑλλάδα, μτφρ. Ἰ. Ἀναστασίου κ.ἄ. (ἐπιμ. Δ.Ἰ. Ἰακὼβ – Ἀ. Ρεγκᾶκος), ἐκδ. Παπαδήμας, Ἀθήνα 2003·
• Θ.Γ. Παππᾶς, Προσεγγίσεις στὴν ἀρχαία ἑλληνικὴ παιδεία. Ἀπὸ τὸν Ὅμηρο ὣς τὸν Ἰσοκράτη, ἐκδ. Καρδαμίτσα, Ἀθήνα 2007·
• Franco Montanari, Ἱστορία τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς λογοτεχνίας. Ἀπὸ τὸν 8ο αἰ. π.Χ. ἕως τὸν 6ο αἰ. μ.Χ., μτφρ. Σπ. Κουτράκης – Δ. Κουκουζίκα – Κ. Σαββᾶ (ἐπιμ. Δανιὴλ Ἰακὼβ – Ἀντώνιος Ρεγκᾶκος), ἐκδ. University Studio Press, Θεσσαλονίκη 2010.

Course material: Besides the textbook chosen by the students from the suggested bibliography, material is also distributed during the course of the semester containing text (in the original and its translation), extended bibliography as well as other sources and study material.

Lecture / Course language: Greek (optional: French)

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• Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative, Summative)
• Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
• Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
• Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)