FF:KRMgrA04 Interpretative Seminar - Course Information

KRMgrA04 M.A. Interpretative Seminar

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

Prerequisites

KRBcZk B.A. Final Exam || KRBcA04 Greek Grammar IV
B.C. Final Exam in Classical Greek

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

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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.).

Syllabus

• 1.The beginnings of the oral poetry among the Greeks.
• 2. The peculiarities of Homeric hexameter.
• 3. The peculiarities of Homeric vocalism.
• 4. The peculiarities of Hometic consonantism.
• 5. The declension of nouns in Homeric poems.
• 6. The conjugation of verbs in Homeric poems.
• 7. The lexical stock of Homeric poems.
• . 8. The proper names in Homeric poems.
• 9. The epical dimension of Homeric poems.
• 10. The structure od Homeric hexameter and Homeric formulae.
• 11. The interrelation between the Mycenaean Greek and the Homeric idiom.
• 12. The place of the Homeric language among the Ancient Greek Dialects.
• 13. The reality of the Homeric world within the complex of early Greek history.

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.

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