FF:MED11 Greek Literature - Course Information
MED11 Greek Literature of the Middle Ages and Modern Period
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person. - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Nicole Votavová Sumelidisová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Nicole Votavová Sumelidisová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- A series of seminars devoted to imporatant authors, literary works, eventually genres. The attention is devoted to the most influential authors, imporatnt from the viewpoint of world literature. Students will gain an overview of the basic turning points of the literary development in this period.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will become familiar with the basic turning points in the development of Greek literature from the Byzantine period until today. Students will get to know certain works of Byzantine and Modern Greek literature through reading of chosen literary extracts (translation into Czech or a world language). Students will be capable of independent work with basic scholarly handbooks of Byzantology and Modern Greek studies and of searching for other information concerning these fields.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hagiography.
- 3. Historiography.
- 4. Hymnography.
- 5. Digenis Akritis.
- 6. Cretan Renaissance.
- 7. Byzantine Novel
- 8. Dionysios Solomos.
- 9. Emmanuil Roidis.
- 10. Konstantinos Kavafis.
- 11. Nikos Kazantzakis.
- 12. Greek Avantgarde
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, reading.
- Assessment methods
- 1. Written test (only students of the Mediterranean Studies and Modern Greek Studies). 2. Submission of a paper (at least 6000 characters). 3. Active participation in classes (75%)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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