160153 VO Homer's origins from a linguist's point of view (2008W)
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Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
06.10.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
13.10.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
20.10.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
27.10.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
03.11.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
10.11.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
17.11.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
24.11.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
01.12.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
15.12.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
12.01.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
19.01.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Monday
26.01.
13:00 - 15:00
(ehem. Seminarraum 2 Berggasse 11 2.OG)
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
In this course I will try to show what kind of conclusions can be reasonably drawn with respect to the personality and the origins of "Homer", i.e. the person(s) who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, on the basis of a careful sifting and probing of the linguistic evidence furnished especially by the Homeric epics themselves and vase inscriptions referring to the complex of the Trojan War.
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
It is the aim of this course to enable students of Classics and Antiquity to form a sound judgment of what can be reasonably stated about "Homer"'s personality and life circumstances on the basis of solid scholarship-which seems to be an aim especially desirable in the wake of the publication of some rather amateurish monographs on these subjects.
Examination topics
A modified and refined version of the methods applied by Jacob Wackernagel in his trailblazing monograph of 1916 named "Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer", which since then have shamefully been mostly ignored.
Reading list
Jacob Wackernagel, Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer, Göttingen 1916.
Association in the course directory
H 423, 808
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