KRMgrA04 M.A. Interpretative Seminar

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:35 pracovna
Prerequisites
KRBcZk B.A. Final Exam || KRBcA04 Greek Grammar IV
B.C. Final Exam in Classical Greek
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
This seminar concerns the most archaic phase of documented Greek, i.e. the Mycenaean Greek dialect from the 14/13. cent. B.C., written in the Linear B syllabic Script (reading selected passages from LB inscriptions), and the most archaic Greek literary idiom, i.e. the language of Homers epical poetical works Iliad and Odyssey from the 8th century B. C., writen in the Greek alphabet already (reading selected passages from Iliad I, III, VI and Odyssey I, VI, IX, XIX.).
The aims of the course are: 1) understanding of main phenomena of the Mycenaean and Homeric Greek, 2) at the end of the seminar, the students are capable of independent interpretation and translation of selected passages from Iliad and Odyssey.
Syllabus
  • 1.The beginnings of the oral poetry among the Greeks (Il. I, 1-21).
  • 2. The peculiarities of Homeric hexameter (Il. I, 22-52).
  • 3. The peculiarities of Homeric vocalism (Il. III, 146-180).
  • 4. The peculiarities of Hometic consonantism (extracts from  Il. VI).
  • 5. The declension of nouns in Homeric poems (extracts from Il. VI).
  • 6. The conjugation of verbs in Homeric poems (extracts from Il. VI).
  • 7. The lexical stock of Homeric poems (Od. I, 1-43).
  • . 8. The proper names in Homeric poems (extracts from Od. I).
  • 9. The epical dimension of Homeric poems (extracts from Od. I).
  • 10. The structure od Homeric hexameter and Homeric formulae (extracts from Od. VI).
  • 11. The interrelation between the Mycenaean Greek and the Homeric idiom (extracts from Od. IX).
  • 12. The place of the Homeric language among the Ancient Greek Dialects (extracts from Od. IX).
  • 13. The reality of the Homeric world within the complex of early Greek history (extracts from Od. XIX).
Literature
  • Odysseia (Unif.)(Souvis.) : A commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Vol. 1, Introduction, and books I-VIII : A commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Vol. 3, Books XVII-XXIV. info
  • AUTENRIETH, Georg. Wörterbuch zu den Homerischen Gedichten. Edited by Andreas Willi - Joachim Latacz - Adolf Kaegi. 14. Aufl. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1999, 255 s. ISBN 3-519-07403-6. info
  • Greek writing from Knossos to Homer : a linguistic interpretation of the origin of the Greek alphabet and the continuity of ancient Greek literacy. Edited by Roger D. Woodard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, xiv, 287. ISBN 0195105206. info
  • LATACZ, Joachim. Homer :der erste Dichter des Abendlands. 3. Aufl. Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 1997, 211 s. ISBN 3-7608-1320-8. info
  • HOMÉROS. Ílias. Translated by Otmar Vaňorný. Vyd. 10. Praha: Rezek, 1996, 177 s. ISBN 80-86027-05-8. info
  • RUSSO, Joseph, Manuel FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO and Alfred HEUBECK. A commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, xii, 447. ISBN 0198140487. info
  • Colloquium Rauricum. 200 Jahre Homer-Forschung. Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1991. info
  • HEUBECK, Alfred, Stephanie WEST and J. B. HAINSWORTH. A commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Oxford: The Clarendon press, 1990, 396 s. ISBN 0198147473. info
  • LATACZ, J. Homer. München-Zürich, 1989. info
  • HOMÉROS. Odysseia. Translated by Otmar Vaňorný - Ferdinand Stiebitz, Illustrated by Karel Vodák. V SNKLHU vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1956, 479 s. info
  • HOMÉROS. The Iliad of Homer ; and, The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952, 322 s. info
  • ARNOLD, Matthew. On translating Homer. London: John Murray, 1896, 178 s. info
  • HOMÉROS. Homérova Ilias. Translated by Antonín Škoda. V Praze: [s.n.], 1886. info
Assessment methods
Type of course: lecture, readings and texts interpretation. The course ends with an oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017.
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