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090100 UE Reading Greek I (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 06.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 13.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 20.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 27.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 03.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 10.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 08.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 15.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 22.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 05.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 12.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3
  • Thursday 26.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

We will read, translate and comment on a section of Iliad Book XXIV, starting from line 329, in M. L. West's Teubner edition. Students will have to prepare ca. 20-lines in advance of each class, from a linguistic and literary perspective (that means reading the Greek alongside the commentaries, please see the reading list below). The number of lines should ideally increase during the course.
Students will acquire a deeper knowledge of the Homeric Kunstsprache in its metrical context as well as of select aspects of poetic technique.
Regular attendance and participation; weekly preparation; final oral examination on all the lines covered during class.

Assessment and permitted materials

Maximum two absences allowed.
In the final exam students will be required to translate and comment on linguistic, metrical and stylistic aspects of a small portion of lines of Iliad Bk XXIV that will have been covered in class.
The language of the course will be English, but students can turn to German if needed.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance: maximum 2 absences
Co-operation and collegial atmosphere: 15%
Oral preparation to be demonstrated throughout the course: 35%
Final examination: 50%

Examination topics

The text of Iliad XXIV that will be covered during the course.

Reading list

Text:
M. L. West, Homeri Ilias XIII-XXIV, Teubner. Stuttgart-Leipzig 2000.

Commentaries:
• Basler-Kommentar (BK) on Book XXIV (C. Brügger), German or English.
• N. Richardson, The Cambridge Commentary, vol. VI (relevant section, Book XXIV), general ed. G. S. Kirk, Cambridge CUP 1993.
• C. W. Macleod, Homer Iliad Book XXIV, Cambridge CUP 1982.

Grammar and Language:
• R. Wachter, ‘Grammar of Homeric Greek (G)’, pp. 65–105 in BK, Prolegomena 2015 (transl. and revised from ‘Grammatik der homerischen Sprache, pp. 61–108 in BK, Prolegomena 2009).
*Briefly*:
• ‘24 Regeln der homerischen Sprache’, pp. 1–7 in Brügger, BK Iliad 24 (pp. 1–8 in the English ed.)
• ‘Homeric Language’ in A. M. Bowie, Homer Iliad Book III. Cambridge: CUP 2019, pp. 43–66.
• 'Language and style' and 'Metre and prosody' in Macleod, Homer Iliad Book XXIV, Cambridge CUP 1982, pp. 35–58.

Metre:
• ‘Homerische Metrik’ (R. Nünlist) in BK, Prolegomena (2009), pp. 109-114 (pp. 116–21 in the English ed.).

Translations:
• R. Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer, Chicago: 2011 [1951].
• R. Hampe, Homer: Ilias, Stuttgart: Reclam 1994.
• J. Latacz, in Basler-Kommentar, in BK, Band VIII (24. Gesang) Faszikel 1: Text und Übersetzung, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2009.

Reference works on Homer’s language:
• P. Chantraine, Grammaire homérique. Paris: Librairie Klincksieck 2013–15 [1958]. (Tome I: Phonétique et morphologie; Tome II: Syntaxe)
• E. Risch, Wortbildung der homerischen Sprache. Berlin: De Gruyter 1974 (2nd ed.).

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