In the World of Achilles and Odysseus: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Homeric Epic 3700-AL-SAO-OG

Assessment will include class activities and a credit project.
The course ends with a pass mark. The pass mark is based on classroom activities (25%) and an oral examination on a problem prepared by the student on a chosen topic from the Homeric epic (75%).

Literatura źródłowa

Homer, Iliada, przekł. R. Chodkowski, Lublin 2022
Homer, Odyseja, przekł. R. Chodkowski, Lublin 2020

Tukidydes, Wojna peloponeska, przekł. K. Kumaniecki, Warszawa 2023.
Literatura przedmiotowa

Bachvarova M., From Hittite to Homer. The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic, Cambridge University Press 2016;

Epos. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, red. S. Morris, R. Laffineur, Liege 2007;

Grethlein J., Memory and Material Objects in the Iliad and the Odyssey, “Journal of Hellenic Studies” 128 (2008).

Kitts M., Anthropology and the Iliad, w: The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology, red. Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, Ashgate 2015.

Kordys J., Gest Achillesa, „Teksty Drugie” 6 (2004).

Latacz J. Homer. His Art and His World, Ann Arbor 1999.

Lord A., Pieśniarz i jego opowieść, przekł. P. Majewski, Warszawa 2010.

Mieletynski E., Pochodzenie eposu bohaterskiego. Wczesne formy i archaiczne zabytki, przekł. Paweł Rojek, Kraków 2009;

Nagy G., Homer the Preclassic, University of California Press 2010;

Russo J. Homer’s Style: Nonformulaic Features of an Oral Aesthetic, “Oral Tradition” 9:2 (1994).

Russo J., Re-Thinking Homeric Psychology: Snell, Dodds and their Critics, “Quaderni. Urbinati di Cultura Classica” 101:2 (2012).

The Homer Encyklopedia, red. M. Finkelberg, vol. 1-3, Blackwell Publishing 2011;

Whitley J. Homer’s Entangled Objects: Narrative, Agency and Personhood In and Out of Iron Age Texts, “Cambridge Archaeological Journal” 23:3 (2013).

Williams B., Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology, w: The Sense of the Past, Princeton University Press 2006;

Zieliński K., Iliada i jej tradycja epicka. Studium z zakresu greckiej tradycji oralnej, Wrocław 2014.

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

• Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 3700-AL-SAO-OG in USOSweb