History of the Greek Theatre - Lecturer: Liana Lomiento - A.Y. 2022/2023

HISTORY OF THE GREEK THEATRE
STORIA DEL TEATRO GRECO

A.Y.	Academic discipline	Credits	Duration (hours)	Year	Period	Location
2022/2023	L-ART/05	6	36	3	Second Semester	URBINO

Lecturer	Email	Office hours for students
Liana Lomiento	liana.lomiento@uniurb.it	Immediately after class

Teaching in foreign languages
Course with optional materials in a foreign language English French This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language.

Assigned to the Degree Course

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Curriculum: PERCORSO COMUNE

Lectures Timetable

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Examinations Timetable

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Learning Objectives

The student will acquire basic information on the material and structural aspects of ancient theatre (actor, chorus, material organization of the representation, agonistic opportunity, scenic space, public) as well as of the history of transmission of the dramatic texts from the "first" performance to us.

Through the reading from the original language of Euripide's Trojan Women, the student will learn to understand a classical dramatic text in its rhetorical, communicative, metrical-musical, thematic, historical-literary aspects, and its theatrical dynamics.

Program

The course will begin (I-III week) from a general introduction to the Attic Theatre, to its historical, evolutionary (from the initial stages to the maturity), and cultural aspects (society, historical events), as well as to its material, dramaturgical and communicative aspects (form of the theatrical building, mask, actors, scenic space, theatrical machines, roles and movements on the scene).

It will continue (IV week) illustrating the figure and work of Euripides, whose tragedy will be the specific object of reading and analysis.

The remaining part of the course (V-IX week) will be entirely devoted to the original language reading of the Trojan Women, whose text will be translated into italian and commented in a critical-textual,rhetorical and historical-literary perspective, as well as in terms of plot and dramaturgy.

Bridging Courses

A preliminary knowledge of ancient Greek is not required.

Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)

The student will be guided to an essential knowledge of Classical Greek theatre, and to the ability to independently read a classical theatrical text with the complexity it involves.

From the point of view of the information obtained, the student will acquire an in-depth knowledge of issues relating to the transmission of the text, its performance and representation on the stage, the treatment of the plot in relation to the mythographical tradition.

More generally, the process of analytical reading of the chosen text will have important consequences on the student's ability to deal proficiently with independent, rigorous reading of every kind of source (literary, historiographical, etc.), and to develop analytical skills of close reading, synthesis and critical thinking on the data and sources.

From the educational point of view, the students will deepen their awareness of specific methodological aspects characterizing literary research and, in particular, his/her dramatic and aesthetic sensitivity to the formal aspects of the poetic and rhetorical and, namely, theatrical discourse.

Teaching Material

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment

Teaching: Front lessons and teaching material in blended mode

Attendance: The attendance of the course and of any supplementary activities is required.

Course books

I. the reference edition:

Euripide. Troiane, a cura di D. Susanetti, Universale economica Feltrinelli/Classici, Milano 2019 (7° ristampa)

II. the reference handbook (mandatory):

G. Mastromarco, P. Totaro, Storia del Teatro greco, Firenze 2008

III. Supplementary readings (mandatory)

a. The student is required to read two out of the following essays:

1. Adrian Poole, Total Disaster: Euripides' the Trojan Women, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 3, 1976, pp. 257-287

2. Ann Suter, Lament in Euripides' "Trojan Women", Mnemosyne , 56, 2003, pp. 1-28

3. ANASTASIA BAKOGIANNI, VOICES OF RESISTANCE: MICHAEL CACOYANNIS' "THE TROJAN WOMEN" (1911), Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 52, 2009, pp. 45-68

4. DANA LACOURSE MUNTEANU, THE TRAGIC MUSE AND THE ANTI-EPIC GLORY OF WOMEN IN EURIPIDES’ TROADES, The Classical Journal 106, 2011, pp. 129-147

5. Niall W. Slater, "The Greatest Anti-War Poem Imaginable": Granville Barker's Trojan Women in America, Illinois Classical Studies 40, 2015, pp. 347-371

6. Elizabeth W. Son, Korean Trojan Women: Performing Wartime Sexual Violence, Asian Theatre Journal 33, 2016, pp. 369-394

7. Paolo Babbiotti and Luca Torrente, Euripides’s Trojan Women: A Critique of Asymmetric Conflict?, in Conflict and Competition: Agon in Western Greece. Selected Essays from the 2019 Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece, eds Heather L. Reid, John Serrati, Tim Sorg, Parnassos Press – Fonte Aretusa, 2020

8. Euripide. Le Troiane. Weiss. L’Istruttoria, a cura di E. Barelli, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2007

b. The student is required to read the following works in translation:

- Aristophanes, Lysistrata

- Euripides, Hecuba

- Euripides, Andromacha

Assessment

verification of learning outcomes will take place through an individual oral interview based on the texts required. It aims at evaluating both the learning of the contents by the student and his / her ability to re-elaborate and to argue.

Evaluations will be sized as follows:

assessments of excellence: the student has good critical skills and in-depth; He knows how to link the main issues addressed during; makes use of appropriate language with respect to the specificity of the discipline.

discrete assessments: the student has a mnemonic knowledge of the contents; decent critical and knows establish relationships between the topics covered: makes use of appropriate language.

sufficient assessment: the student has minimal knowledge on the subject of the course themes, with some information deficiencies; It makes use of a slightly appropriate language.

negative evaluations: the student turns with difficulty on the issues addressed in class; has obvious information deficiencies; makes use of of an inappropriate language.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Additional Information for Non-Attending Students

Teaching: Blended learning will be activated.

Attendance

The student is required to observe carefully the program indicated in the syllabus.

In case of specific needs, requiring a variation of the indicated program, the student should contact the teacher to arrange an alternative program.