Classical Culture
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Classical Studies |
Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
LEI |
49 |
Study plan |
1 |
- |
6 |
41 |
162 |
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The study of political, moral and religious ideas of ancient authors, as expressed in their literary and artistic works, aims to enhance the knowledge of the models of European cultures and the recognition of the educational and informative value of classical culture.
Learning outcomes and competences
At the end of the semester, students must be able to situate the figures and events of Ancient Greece and Rome; discuss the links between literature and politics, rhetoric and art; identify and interpret the literary and artistic sources selected; critically present their reception in the Renaissance period.
Working method
Presencial
Program
1.1. Homeric Poems and Hesiod’s works, as the foundations of a heroic worldview.
1.2. The word and the action or the representation of the human in archaic Greek art and poetry.
1.3. Philosophy, art and science in the classical period; the institution of the arts and the teaching of the sophists; the schools of Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle.
1.4. Hellenistic literature, art and globalization; Apollonius’s Argonautica.
2.1. From the idea of Rome, and foundation myths, to the ideology of imperium.
2.2. Dissemination of Greek arts in Rome and the construction of a universal civilization.
2.3. Literature and art in Roman classicism. Virgil's Aeneid.
3.1. The reception of classical arts in the Renaissance.
Mandatory literature
Apolónio de Rodes; A Argonáutica, Coimbra, Classica Digitalia., 2021
Hesíodo; Teogonia. Trabalhos e Dias, Lisboa, INCM, 2014
Homero; Ilíada, Lisboa, Bolso Cotovia, 2017
Homero; Odisseia, Lisboa, Bolso Cotovia, 2017
Virgílio; Eneida, Lisboa, Cotovia, 2020
Complementary Bibliography
Ames-Lewis, F.; The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist. , New Haven (CT), Yale UP, 2000
Beard, M.; Classical Art from Greece to Rome, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2001
Bloomer, W. ; A Companion to Ancient Education, Oxford, Blackwell, 2015
Borg, B. ; A Companion to Roman Art, Oxford, Blackwell, 2015
Foley, J. ; A Companion to Ancient Epic, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005
Horsfall, N.; A Companion to the Study of Virgil, Leiden, Brill, 1995
Kennedy, G.; A New History of Classical Rhetoric, Princeton (NJ), Princeton UP, 1994
Pereira, Belmiro Fernandes; Retórica e Eloquência em Portugal na Época do Renascimento, Lisboa, INCM, 2012
Rocha Pereira, M. H. ; Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica, vol. I, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2017
Rocha Pereira, M. H.; Estudos de História da Cultura Clássica, vol. II, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2009
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical exposition of programme contents; analysis and interpretation of texts and images; discussion of themes prepared by students.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
50,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
50,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Estudo autónomo |
108,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
54,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.
Calculation formula of final grade
Assignments /reading reports: 50% Written tests and exam: 50%