The Early Greek Lyric Poets 03-AP-EGL

Course learning content:
- terminology, the poet’s voice and transmission,
- Sappho’s poetry,
- Alcaeus’ poetry,
- Anacreon’s poetry,
- Simonides’ poetry,
- Bacchylides’ poetry,
- Pindar’s poetry,
- Mimnermus’ poetry,
- Solon’s poetry,
- Theognis’ poetry,
- Xenophanes’ poetry,
- Archilochus’ poetry,
- Semonides’ poetry,
- anonymous poems,
- conclusions.

Module learning aims

Course aims: The primary aim of the tutorial is to make the students aware of the main problems and controversies associated with the Greek lyric poets and to provide the necessary introduction for further reading. All Greek in translation. The aim is also to explore the ancient texts of lyric poets and to look at tchem in relations to modern conceptions of lyric. We will try to answer the question what made tchem attractive to a wide range of readers, ancien as well as modern (also non-classicists).

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

Interactive lecture, discussions, text-based work.

Student workload (ECTS credits)

Module type

elective

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Fluent English.

Course coordinators

Krystyna Bartol

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- describe the main feature of poems composed by early Greek lyric artists,
- describe the ‘mother context’ of presenting early Greek lyric poetry,
- define lyric genres,
- answer the questions concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions,
- enumerate names of lyric masters and describe the context of their activity,
- discover the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

Assessment criteria

Grade system:

very good (bdb; 5,0): student perfectly describes early lyric genres, identifies the main features of literary production of archaic poets, knows concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discovers the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

good plus (+db; 4,5): student almost perfectly describes early lyric genres, identifies the main features of literary production of archaic poets, knows details concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discovers the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

good (db; 4,0): student correctly describes early lyric genres, identifies the main features of literary production of archaic poets, knows detailsconcerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discovers the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

satisfactory plus (+dst; 3,5): student describes in a satisfactory way early lyric genres, identifies the main features of literary production of archaic poets, knows details concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discovers the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

satisfactory (dst; 3,0): student hardly describes early lyric genres, identifies the main features of literary production of archaic poets, knows details concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discovers the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

unsatisfactory (ndst; 2,0): student is not able to describe early lyric genres, identify the main features of literary production of archaic poets, define details details concerning the difference between lyric poems presented at public and private occasions, discover the meaning of metaphors used by early Greek poets.

Bibliography

Reading list:
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric, ed. Felix Budelmann, Cambridge 2009.
K. J. Dover and Others, Ancient Greek Literature, Oxford 1980.
G. Schade, Lectures on Greek Poetry, Poznań 2016.

Additional information

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