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Classical Greek Culture

Objectives

Students should be able:
a) To demonstrate knowledge of ancient Greek culture in its different ages;
b) To identify ancient Greek authors and their times, being able of establishing relations among them;
c) To identify the main values of ancient Greek society;
d) To identify the traces of the Hellenic legacy in European culture.

General characterization

Code

01100476

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Leonor Santa Bárbara de Carvalho

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Burckhardt, Jacob (1998). The Greeks and Greek Civilization (tr. by Sheila Stern; introd. By Oswyn Murray), Londres, Fontana Press.
  • Burkert, W. (1993). A religião grega na época clássica e arcaica (trad. de M. J. Simões Loureiro), Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
  • Ferreira, José Ribeiro (2004, 2ª ed.). A Grécia antiga, Lisboa, Edições 70 (2ª. ed.).
  • Foley, John Miles (ed.) (2009). A Companion to Ancient Epic, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Hornblower, Simon (2006, reimpr.). The Greek World (479-323 B. C.), Londres & Nova Iorque, Routledge.
  • Soares, Carmen, Inés Calero Secall e Mª do Céu Fialho (coord.) (2008). Norma e transgressão, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

Teaching method

Lectures, with analysis and discussion of texts, and the oral presentations by the students, related with the topics of the programme.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Trabalho escrito presented orally and its mark is the weighing of the written version and the oral presentation(50%), Written Test(50%)

Subject matter

I. Greece and its history: the framing of a civilisation.
1. Formation of Greece and the constitution of the Greeks.
2. Greek identity.
3. Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations.
4. From the Archaic age to the Hellenistic age: the evolution of one civilisation.
II. Greek culture.
1. Literature and culture.
2.The Homeric poems.
3. Hesiod and a new conception of life.
4. The archaic poetry.
5. Greek education in Classical age: Athens and Sparta.
6. Greek religion: gods and man.
7. The theatre: tragedy and comedy.
8. Greek art.
9. Greek political thought.
10. The Hellenistic age: a new conception of life; literature and culture in the Hellenistic age.