Introduction to the anthropology of the Homeric epic 3700-AL-WAEH-qKR

Assessment will include class activities, attendance, and a credit project
The course concludes with a passing grade, which is determined based on attendance (20%), class participation (20%), and the completion of an individual or team project related to the course subject at the end of the year (60%). The project involves analyzing a selected theme from the epics using an interdisciplinary approach that combines anthropology with philological or archaeological methods.

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;

Havelock E., Przedmowa do Platona, Warszawa 2007

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

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

Homeric Contexts. Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry, red. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, Ch. Tsagalis, De Gruyter 2012

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

Kordys J., Kategorie antropologiczne i tożsamość narracyjna. Szkice z pogranicza neurosemiotyki i historii kultury, Kraków 2006;

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

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

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

Powell B., Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press 2002;

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

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.

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