Title of the resource
Title of the resource in english
Publisher
Palermo: Palumbo Editore
Original language
Target and Age Group
High-school level students
Contents & Purpose
The book is an Ancient Greek Literature textbook for classical high school students, complying with the secondary education reform. The textbook comprises three volumes, covering Ancient Greek Literature in chronologic order. They can be supplemented with two minor books of classical texts.
The book introduces the study of Classic Greek Literature linking it with the plethora of other cultural manifestations of Ancient Greece such as art, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, etc.
Notions about literary genres (epic, lyric, theater, etc.), presentations of authors (biography, literary works, poetic, conceptual frame, language and style) and anthological pieces are provided with a wide range of indexes, links, interdisciplinary papers. These indexes are of didactic value, incuding tasks such as the comparison of texts, and reading of critical papers, as well as offering innovative sections such as: Anthropology, Cinema, Lexicon, Places, Myth, Literary Works, Stage, Religion and Philosophy, Findings, History. The ancient and the modern world, up to the contemporary age, are linked together via thematic sections. Each volume also provides a Glossary with rhetorical, narratological and theatrical terminology.
The paper copy is matched with an online edition, including multimedia and interactive material. This latter includes a video with reading in metrics and theatrical works played by actors, audio files, activity cards, texts, exercises etc.