SPECIALIZED TOPICS OF ANCIENT GREEK POETRY

Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation

will describe major figures and moments in the history of badness and ugliness in ancient Greek poetry will evaluate, analyze and compare the roles played by ugliness and badness in establishing artistic genre, narrative, character, etc. will classify approaches to aesthetics and ethics and will offer plausible explanations for their evolution will evaluate how the ancient world has informed contemporary concepts of beauty and virtue will write on cultural products, verbal and visual, with the ability to situate the works within social and intellectual trends will develop an individual research topic, set an agenda for its timely completion, condense arguments for effective oral presentation

"The anti-aristocratic ideal in ancient Greek poetry": A method of defining the Classical Ideal in ancient Greek Poetry is by outlining not the positive ideas, values, and principal encompassed within the Ideal in antiquity but rather what were “not”. The polar opposites to the Ideal representing aristocratic values (kalos kagathos) which was the collective outlook of the Greek male citizen body, the dominant, exclusive group in Greek society, will be the focus of this course.

anti-aristocratic ideal, ugliness, badness, ugly, bad

28-11-2019