Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Classical Culture

Classical Culture
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10739
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First semester
OB
Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Teaching staff


Dr. TORRES MORALES, Bernat - btorres@uic.es

Introduction

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Classical Culture is one of the most essential elements upon which Western culture and civilisation has been built, serving as a precedent and a model for most of current cultural expressions. The past is thus an element that is still alive and that must be revisited and understood in the context of our present.

The course focuses its attention on some topics in Literature, Philosophy, Art and History. The main objective is to achieve an overall vision of the classical word, mainly focussing on the Greek and Latin culture and their legacy.

The course has a global approach and transverse structure, by connecting contents from different disciplines within the Degree in Cultural Sciences.

Pre-course requirements

No requirements needed

Objectives

To bring the student closer to the Greco-Roman legacy in different fields like literature, philosophy and art.

To reflect on the survival of classical culture in the West and the mechanisms of transmission and interpretation of classical culture in western cultural manifestations: literature, art and philosophy. In this regard, a fundamental objective is to improve the knowledge of the Greco-Roman legacy in the cultural context of the student.

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • E04 - Ability to recognise and interpret cultural manifestations.
  • E12 - To acquire knowledge and understanding of imaginary, iconic and symbolic languages and their representation.
  • E13 - To acquire knowlege of the general diachronic framework of the past.
  • E15 - Ability to identify and value the different elements which make up cultural heritage.
  • G01 - To analyse and interpret social and cultural environments to identify need, opportunities, weaknesses and strenghts..
  • G02 - To lead, cooordinate and form part of interdisciplinary work teams.
  • G03 - To search for and/or administer economic resources within the framework of an institution or company, or a cultural programmes, project or service.
  • G05 - To act responsibly and produce high-quality, rigorous and efficient work that benefits society.
  • G07 - To know how to apply and adapt to new technologies in processes of cultural management, production and dissemination.
  • G08 - Ability to carry out research.

Learning outcomes of the subject

1. Acquire key concepts about culture and cultural experiences

2. Applies theoretical knowledge in analysis and debates of face-to-face activities and in autonomous work

3. Know and select specific documentation about cultural experiences

5. Learn to contextualize cultural phenomena and relate them to their social and political dimension

6. Relate concepts of the different subjects worked across

7. Learn to diagnose problems in the cultural intellectual field

11. Analyze and diagnose cases of cultural complexity

Identifies and values the main historical, socio-political, scientific, literary and cultural achievements of the Greco-Roman world.

It identifies the main classical motifs in the cultural manifestations of later times.

Interpret and analyze primary (ancient) sources: texts and material culture.

It collects and interprets data and makes judgments about the social, scientific or ethical aspects of the ancient world and which have been present in later times.

Get to know and / or value the ancient heritage that is close to him/her.

Syllabus

PART I

Man and Cosmos

The Homeric myth and the world
Iliad
Odyssey

 

Polis and Politics

The Greek polis
Theatre as a political and social genre
Greek tragedy and the tragic
Sophocles: Antigone and Oedipus Rex

 

Literature and writing in the Classical world

1. Genres and topics in Classical literature

2. Writing in the Roman world

 

Part II (Philosophy)

  1. The sophistry and Socrates
  2. Plato
  3. Aristotle
  4. The Hellenistic period

Part III (Art History)

A) Greece: 

Archaic Period

  1. Architecture. The orders and temple development
  2. Sculpture (kouroi and korai)
  3. Black-figure pottery, red-figure pottery
  4. The advent of rational thought and its implications in art

Classical Period

  1. Urban layout and Hippodamian planning
  2. Architecture (the Acropolis)
  3. Sculpture. From Severe Style to the mature Classical Style
  4. Pottery (the heyday of the Red-figure technique)

Hellenistic art

  1. Hellenistic cities (Alexandria, Pergamon)
  2. Regional schools in Hellenistic Sculpture
  3. Painting and mosaics
  4. Hellenism beyond Greece. Ptolemaic Egypt

B) Rome:

Architecture and urbanism

  1. The city and its territory, the domus, the forum
  2. Religious architecture and commemorative monuments
  3. Leisure, Roman baths and aqueducts

Sculpture

  1. Greek copies and Roman realism
  2. Republican and imperial portraits

Painting

  1. The Pompeian frescoes
  2. Fayum portraits

Art of Rome’s provinces (Tarraco and Emporiæ)

 

Part IV (History)
Specialised seminars on Greece.

 

  1. The creation of the polis. Sparta.
  2. Athens.
  3. The Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War.

Specialised seminars on Rome.

  1. The Roman Republic I.
  2. The Roman Republic II.
  3. Augustus, father of the Empire.
  4. Early Empire (1st-3rd century AD).

 

 



  1. Greece


  2. Rome


Bibliography and resources

Other bibliography and resources will be recommended during the course. Editions of classical texts will be also given during the sessions.Readings related to syllabus will be uploaded in the Campus Moodle. 

 

Greece

Adrados, F., La democracia ateniense, Madrid, Alianza, 1998.

Bengston, H., Historia de Grecia, Madrid, 1965.

Bowra, C.M., Introducción a la literatura griega, Madrid, Guadarrama, 1983.

Fernández Nieto, F. J.. (coord.), Historia antigua de Grecia y Roma. València, Tirant lo Blanch, 2005.

Finley, M.I, El legado de Grecia, Barcelona, Crítica, 1975.

Fornis Vaquero, C., Esparta : la historia, el cosmos y la leyenda de los antiguos espartanos. Sevilla, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2016.

Mossé, C., Pericles : el inventor de la democracia. Barcelona, Espasa-Calpe, 2007.

 Rome

 Alföldy, G., Nueva historia social de Roma. Sevilla, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2012.

Barceló, P. Ferrer, J. J., Historia de la Hispania romana, Madrid, Alianza, 2016.

Carcopino, J., La vida cotidiana en Roma en el apogeo del Imperio, Madrid, Temas de hoy, 1993.

Cornell, T.J., Los orígenes de Roma (trad. T. de LOZOYA). Barcelona, Crítica, 1998.

Grimal, P., La civilización romana. Vida, costumbres, leyes, artes, Barcelona, Juventud, 1999.

Guillén, J., Urbs Roma. Vida y costumbres de los romanos, Madrid, 2000 (1ª 1985).

Fernández Nieto, F. J.. (coord.), Historia antigua de Grecia y Roma. València, Tirant lo Blanch, 2005.

Le Bohec, Y., El Ejército romano : instrumento para la conquista de un imperio. Barcelona, Ariel, 2004. 

Nicolet, C.: Roma y la conquista del mundo mediterráneo, 2 vols. Barcelona, Ed. Labor, Nueva Clío, 1982 y 1984.

 

Filosofia

 

Annas, Julia. Introducció a la filosofia antiga. Barcelona: Enoanda. 2020.

Burnet, John. La Filosofia grega: de Tales a Plató. Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Societat Catalana de Filosofia, 2013.

Burnet, John. L'aurora de la filosofia grega. Barcelona: Barcelonesa d'Edicions, 2010.

Copleston, Frederick. Historia de la Filosofía, vol. I. Ariel: Barcelona, 2011.

De Romilly, J. Les Grands Sophistes dnas l’Athènes de Périclès. Paris: Fallois. 1988

Ferrer, Joan. De Tales a Demòcrit. El pensament presocràtic. Girona: Ela Geminada.

Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, Historia de la Filosofía Griega. Madrid: Gredos:

Volumen I: Los primeros presocráticos y los pitagóricos. 1999.

Volumen II: La tradición presocrática desde Parménides a Demócrito. 1994.

Volumen III: Siglo V. Ilustración. 1994.

Volumen IV: Platón, el hombre y sus diálogos, primera época. 1998.

Volumen V: Platón, segunda época y la Academia. 1992.

Volumen VI: Introducción a Aristóteles. 1993.

Gilson, Étienne, La filosofía en la Edad Media. Madrid: Gredos 1965.

Hadot, Pierre. ¿Qué es la filosofía antigua? México: FCE 1995.

Hadot, Pierre. Eloge de la philosophie antique. Paris: Allia 1999.

Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: Los ideales de la cultura griega. México: FCE, 1990.

Kirk, G. S. & Raven J. E. & Schofield, M. (1994) Los Filosofos Presocraticos. Madrid: Gredos.

Long, Anthony. La filosofia helenística: Estoicos, Epicureos, Escepticos. Madrid: Alianza, 2007

Piqué, A (trad. ed.). Sofistas. Testimonios y fragmentos. Barcelona: Bruguera. 1985

Pòrtules, J. & Grau, S. Saviesa grega arcaica. Barcelona: Adesiara. 2011.

Reale, Giovanni; Introducción a Aristóteles, Barcelona: Herder, 1985.

Reale, Giovanni; Antiseri, Dario. Historia del pensamiento filosófico y científico I. Antigüedad y Edad Media, Barcelona: Herder, 1995.

Zubiri, Xavier. Cinco lecciones de filosofía, Madrid: Alianza, 1994.

Zubiri, Xavier. Introducción a la filosofia de los griegos. Madrid: Alianza, 2018.

 

Fonts

Kirk, G.S.; Raven, J. E.; Schofield, M. (trad. Eds.). LOS FILOSOFOS PRESOCRATICOS: HISTORIA CRITICA CON SELECCION DE TEXTOS. Madrid: Gredos. 1987.

De Tales a Demòcrit. El pensament presocràtic. Girona: Edicions de l'Ela Geminada. Introducció i traducció de Joan Ferrer Gràcia. 2011.

Plató; Diàlegs. Barcelona: Fundació Bernat Metge.

Platón; Diálogos. Gredos.

Aristóteles, [tots els seus textos], Barcelona: Fundació Bernat Metge.

Aristóteles, [todos sus textos], Madrid: Gredos.

 

 

Art History

ALCOCK, S. E., OSBORNE, R., (eds.), Classical Archaeology, Malden-Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (2ª ed.).

ARIÑO, E., GURT, J.M., PALET, J.M., El pasado presente. Arqueología de los paisajes en la Hispania romana, Salamanca-Barcelona, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca-Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2004.

BIANCHI BANDINELLI, R., El arte en la antiguedad clásica. Etruria y Roma, Akal, 2000

BOARDMAN, J., El arte griego, Destino, Barcelona, 1997

BORG, B. E., A companion to Roman Art, Malden-Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

HÖLSCHER, T., Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome. Between Art and Social Reality, Oakland, University of California Press, 2018.

HÖLSCHER, T., The Language of Images in Roman Art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

KEAY, S.J., Hispania romana, Ausa, 1992

OSBORNE, R., CUNLIFFE, B. (eds.), Mediterranean Urbanization, 800-600 BC, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.

SEAMAN, K., SCHULTZ, P.,  Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

SMITH, T.J., PLANTZOS, D. (eds.),  A Companion to Greek Art, 2 vols., Malden-Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

STEWART, P., The Social History of Roman Art, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

ZANKER, P., Roman Art, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2012.

ZANKER, P., Augusto y el poder de las imágenes, Madrid, Alianza, 1992 

 

Other general bibliography

FRANKFORT, H.: El pensamiento prefilosófico, F.C.E., México 1954

GIGON, O.: Los orígenes de la filosofía griega, Gredos, Madrid 1971

HOFFMAN, E.: Die Sprache und die archaische Logik. Tubingen 1925

JAEGER, W.: La teología de los primeros filósofos griegos, FCE, México1977.

REALE, G.: Storia della filosofia antica, Vita e Pensiero, Milan 1979

ROBIN, L.: La pensée grecque. Paris, 1928

VERNANT, J.P.: Mito y pensamiento en la Grecia antigua, Ariel, Barcelona 1973

 

Webgrafia

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Un dels projectes web més importants per a la cultura clàssica. Disposa de textos, imatges i enllaços d’arreu.

http://www.culturaclasica.com/ Portal del món grecollatí amb notícies d’interès (estrenes de cinema, obres de teatre, llibres, etc.) i més recursos.

http://www.centro-michels.org/public_htm/scriptoriumdigital.htm Portal especialitzat en Cultura Clàssica amb llibreria on-line d’accés gratuït i notícies sobre el món clàssic d’arreu.

http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/ La pàgina web finlandesa demostra l’activitat de la llengua llatina encara avui. Els Nuntii Latini és un informatiu que recull l’actualitat en llatí. Amb seccions tan curioses com ara “jazz en llatí”. Un diari digital íntegrament en llatí, http://www.alcuinus.net/ephemeris/

Lacus Curtius:  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html 

VRBS ROMA http://www.vroma.org 

INTERCLASSICA: Investigacion y difusión del mundo clásico http://interclassica.um.es/

https://smarthistory.org/introduction-to-greek-architecture/ Brief article with a synthetic introduction to Greek architecture.

https://smarthistory.org/the-parthenon-athens/ Video with images of the Acropolis and a dialogue between two specialists about the Parthenon (possibility of subtitles). 

https://smarthistory.org/introduction-to-ancient-roman-art/  Pleasant article with a brief introduction to Roman art.

https://smarthistory.org/ancient-rome/  Visit through a reconstruction with virtual reality of ancient Rome.

http://www.termcat.cat/ca/Diccionaris_En_Linia/147/Cerca/  Online Dictionary of terms of architecture, sculpture and painting in English, Spanish and Catalan.

 


 

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