Subject

Classical Culture

  • code 10739
  • course 1
  • term Semester 1
  • type OB
  • credits 9

Main language of instruction: Catalan

Other languages of instruction: Spanish

Teaching staff

Introduction

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

  • 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.
  • E14 - To develop the ability for critical analysis with regard to literary and artistic expression.
  • E15 - Ability to identify and value the different elements which make up cultural heritage.
  • E24 - Ability to present the results of research project in accordance with the standards of each subject area.
  • E26 - Ability to read and write texts in one's own language and other languages, as well as transcribe, summarise and categorise pertinent information.
  • G05 - To act responsibly and produce high-quality, rigorous and efficient work that benefits society.
  • G08 - Ability to carry out research.
  • G03 - To search for and/or administer economic resources within the framework of an institution or company, or a cultural programmes, project or service.
  • G07 - To know how to apply and adapt to new technologies in processes of cultural management, production and dissemination.
  • 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.
  • E04 - Ability to recognise and interpret cultural manifestations.

Learning outcomes of the subject

Learning outcomes are expressed in part through previous competences:

Ability to use methods and techniques specific to other human sciences.

Ability to identify and value the different elements which make up cultural heritage.

Ability to locate and interpret real or represented spaces, territories and landscapes.

Ability to present the results of research in accordance with the standards of each subject area.

Ability to read and write texts in one’s own language and another language, as well as transcribe and summarise information.

Ability to analyse and synthesise.

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).

 

 


Chapter  useful materials
      Material
            Memòria visita a un museu memoriadunmuseu.docx 
            Taula cronològica comparativa per a ampliar cronologiaculturaclassica.docx 
      .1 Greece
            Material
                  Pintors grecs Plini el Vell fydpintorsgrecs.pdf 
            Websites
                  Documental sobre l'Esculapi (Empúries) http://blocs.xtec.cat/elfildelesclassiques/2012/10/20/lesculapi-dempuries-una-historia-fascinant/  
                  Programa sobre el Partenon http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/035976-000/les-secrets-du-parthenon 
      .2 Rome
            Material
                  Lloba capitolina romuliremcov.pdf 
                  Loba capitolina cave covaderomulirem.pdf 
                  Portrait fydretrat.pdf 
                  Ròmul i Rem Titus Livi fydromuloyremo.pdf 
            Websites
                  Ara Pacis http://www.sovraintendenzaroma.it/cosa_facciamo/studi_e_ricerche/i_colori_di_augusto  
                  Barcino 3D http://arqueologiabarcelona.bcn.cat/pla-barcino/barcino3D/ 
                  Bimillennial anniversary Augustus http://pagines.uab.cat/august/ 

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

Manuals

Brague, R.; Europa, la via romana(Realitats i Tensions, 2). Barcelona: Barcelonesa d’Edicions 1992.

Brague, R.; El passat per endavant (Realitats i Tensions, 10). Barcelona: Barcelonesa d’Edicions 2002.

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

Burnet, John.; L'aurora de la filosofia grega. Barcelonbesa d'Edicions. 2010.

Copleston, F.; Historia de la Filosofía, Ariel, Barcelona 1977

Guthrie, W. K. C.; Historia de la filosofía griega, vol. III, Siglo V. Ilustración

Guthrie, W. K. C.; Historia de la filosofía griega, vol. IV, Platón, el hombre y sus diálogos: primera época.

Guthrie, W. K. C.; Historia de la filosofía griega, vol. V, Platón, segunda época y Academia.

Guthrie, W. K. C.; Historia de la filosofía griega, vol. VI, Introducció a Aristóteles.

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

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

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

Jaeger, W. Paideia: Los ideales de la cultura griega. Fondo de Cultura Económica de España. 1990.

Long, A. A., La filosofia helenística: Estoicos, Epicureos, Escepticos. Madrid: Alianza Editorial Sa. 2007.

Marías, J.; La Filosofía en sus textos, Labor, Barcelona 1962

Reale, G; Introducción a Aristóteles, Herder, Barcelona, 1985

Reale, G. I Antiseri, D.; Historia del pensamiento filosófico y científico I. Antigüedad y Edad Media, Herder, Barcelona 1995

Zubiri, X.; Cinco lecciones de filosofía, Alianza, Madrid 1994


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.

 


 

Teaching and learning material

      Material
            Polis clásica elseglevac.pdf 
            Odissey homer-odissea.ppt 
            Periodización Roma esquemacivilitzacioromana.docx 
            Itroduction to Iliad homero-iliada-1.ppt 
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