Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
190301501101	CLASSICAL LITERATURE	Compulsory	1	1	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The course touches upon Plato’s ideas on imitation in relation to art/poetry and Aristothles’s work Poetica and mainly dwelling on the arguments of the latter. After the explanation and discussion of the general characteristics of the classical Greek and Roman literature, works of Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes (from classical Greek literature) and Seneca, Virgil and Ovid (from Roman literature) are exemplified and examined.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Knowing about what Classical Literature means.
2	Knowing about what Classical Literature means.
3	Learning about the genres of classical literature.
4	Learning about the genres of classical literature.
5	To be able to link the relationship between classical Geek and Roman literature.
6	To be able to link the relationship between classical Geek and Roman literature.
7	To be able to write comparative essay on the works of Classical Greek and Roman Culture.
8	To be able to write comparative essay on the works of Classical Greek and Roman Culture.
9	To be able to evaluate/criticize the works written about Classical Greek and Roman Culture.
10	To be able to evaluate/criticize the works written about Classical Greek and Roman Culture.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

The participants are expected to have obtained Classical Literature A Concise History by Richard Rutherford/Blackwell Publishing (2005) and scrutinize the book. Please note that the weekly schedule concerning this course can be ever-changing.

Course Contents

The course covers the notions of tragedy, comedy, poetry, epic and satire in the west with its historical development dating back to ancient Greek and Roman culture.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction: Characteristics of classical Greek literature
2	The conception of epic, tragedy, poetry and comedy in relation to classical Greek literature	-	-
3	Introduction and the discussion of Aristotle’s Poetica as a founding text and criteria for classical art with specific reference to dramatic forms and their elements in which Aristotle expound upon the unities, hamartia, hubris, nemesis, catharsis, peripetia and anagnorisis	-	-
4	Heroic age and heroic ideal in classical Greek literature/epic poetry	-	-
5	Homer’s Iliad	-	-
6	Sophocles’ Oedipus the King as a Greek drama/tragedy Aristophanes’ Lysistrata as a Greek comedy	-	-
7	Mid-Term Exam	-	-
8	Characteristics of Roman literature	-	-
9	Epic, tragedy, comedy, satire and rhetoric in relation to classical Roman literature	-	-
10	Ars Poetica by Horace as a preliminary classical Roman literary criticism	-	-
11	Aeneid by Virgil as a Roman epic	-	-
12	Excerpts from Horace as genre of satire	-	-
13	Presentation and discussions of excerpts from Juvenal for Roman satire
14	Ovid’s Ars Amatoria as an example for Roman rhetoric	-	-

Recommended or Required Reading

Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature: A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan/ Wiley-Blackwell (2005) A History of Ancient Greek Literature, by Gilbert Murray Cornell, University Library(2009) The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature by Gilbert Highet (1985) 1st Week: A Student’s Guide to Classics by Jeffrey O. Nelson Jeremy M. Beer(2003) What is Classics? (pp. 1-21) 2nd Week: Epic, Poetry, Drama, Prose Fiction, Literary Criticism (pp. 11-59), 3rd Week: Aristotles’ Poetics 4th Week: Epic Poetry Homer, Apollonius, Virgil with a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems by Charles Rowan Beye(2006) Oral Poetry, Poet’s World, Poetic Technique (pp.1-74.) 5th Week: Homer’s Iliad (pp.113-144) 6th Week: The Theatre of Apollo Divine Justice and Sophocles' Oedipus the King by R . Drew Griffit(1996), Asserting Eternal Providence: The Question of Guilt (pp. 45-59), The Authority of Prophecy: Theodicy in the play (pp. 59-70), Reading the Name of Oedipus and Other Riddles (pp. 70-76), The Humiliation of Oedipus (pp. 76-82), Conclusion (pp. 82-87) 7th Week: Talking about Laughter and Other Studies in Greek Comedy, by Alan H. Sommerstein(2009), The anatomy of euphemism in Aristophanic comedy (pp. 70-104), Talking about laughter in Aristophanes( pp. 104-116) -Mid-Term- 9th – 15th Week: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Latin Literature by E. J. Kenney(1982), (pp. 5-10) 10th Week: (pp. 53-60) 11st Week: (pp.77-138) 12nd Week: (pp. 346-368) 13rd Week: (pp. 370-385) 14th Week: (pp. 597-624)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	20	20
Final Examination	1	20	20
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Discussion	1	15	15
Criticising Paper	1	50	50
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			147

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4	4	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	3	3	4	5
LO5
LO6
LO7
LO8	4	3	5	4	3	4	3	5	3	4	5	4	5	4	3	5
LO9
LO10

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High