MED11 Greek Literature of the Middle Ages and Modern Period

Faculty of Arts
Spring 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
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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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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