Riflessioni sull'insegnamento letterario del greco antico e del latino nella scuola italiana

Abstract

The provision of literature teaching in Italy, strongly conditioned by a twentieth-century matrix treatment based on the principle of acculturation, has led to the progressive crystallisation of the idea of literary teaching currently in force in schools of all levels, consisting in the identification of the discipline with an aseptic vivisection of textual material to be broken down and analysed in a mechanical and procedural way; such rigidity and short-sightedness of teaching practice has led to the inevitable impoverishment of the literary offer, deprived of the most strictly human component: literature does not convey skills, it does not stimulate the critical sense, it does not
broaden horizons. In order to remedy this problem, it is essential to rethink the very foundations of the teaching of literature, in particular by paying attention to Greek and Latin literary histories and researching how to transform literary teaching into true literary education.