Modern Greek Culture

- The notions of classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek philology; antiquity, Byzantine and Modern Greek period.
- The issue of continuity and discontinuity in Greek history, culture, language.
- Early Modern Greek history, culture and literature (Greece after 1204; Cretan renaissance culture and literature).
- Greece after 1453; Greeks and Greek culture in the Ottoman empire.
- Greek enlightenment, the war of independence and the emergence of the Modern Greek state; Greek literature in this period.
- Greece in the period between the emergence of the modern state and the Micro-Asiatic catastrophe; the language question, culture and literature in this period.
- Greek culture and literature in the 19th and 20th century; main currents and authors (N. Kazantzakis, O. Elytis, G. Seferis, C. Cavafy).

Obvezna: 

- Clogg, R. A concise history of Greece. Second edition. Cambridge 2002. COBISS.SI-ID – 83901443  

- Beaton. R.: The Greeks: A global history. New York: 2021.COBISS.SI-ID - 104240131  

- Beaton, R. Byron's war: Romantic rebellion, Greek revolution. Cambridge 2013. COBISS.SI-ID - 52676962 
 

Dodatna: 

- Gantar, K. »Kopitar in grštvo«. V: Kopitarjev zbornik: mednarodni simpozij v Ljubljani, 29. Junij-1.julij 1994, 375-381. Ljubljana 1996. 

- Holton, D., ur. Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete. Cambrige 1991. 

- Fabjan, D. »Trije modeli upesnjene zgodovine v poeziji Konstantina Kavafisa.« Keria, Studia Latina et Graeca 8, št. 1 (2009): 91-117.