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GK 503 First-Year Modern Greek: II Grammar/Reading |
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Unique No: |
28120 |
Modern Greek is the language of Greece, the major language of the Republic of Cyprus, and of emigrant Greeks in this country and throughout the world. The language is closer to ancient Greek than, say, Italian or Spanish is to Latin; but it is sufficiently differentiated in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation to require separate study. Its literature encompasses not only a rich tradition of folk songs and ballads but also such authors of international stature as Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek), Vassilikos (Z), Cavafy (poems "Waiting for the Barbarians," "Ithaca"), and Seferis (Nobel prize in poetry).
GK503 would be of special interest and value to various constituencies of students: those of Greek ancestry, who may want to revive something of their background or who seek to improve on informal learning of the rudiments of the language; those who are considering touring Greece; those who seek to use modern Greek as a bridge to the study of New Testament or ecclesiastical Greek; classics students who seek to develop an understanding of the history of the Greek language; students interested in archaeology, art history, or anthropology who contemplate field work in Greece or Cyprus; students of modern and contemporary European history and culture.
GK503 normally has GK502 as prerequisite. The course will, however, start with a quick review of the grammar covered in GK502. Accordingly, students who possess the rudiments of reading and writing modern Greek and who have a working vocabulary of the language may be allowd to enroll without the stipulated prerequisite. Qualification for enrollment will be determined through consultation with the instructor.
Given the oral/aural method of learning employed in the class, there will be some requirement of regular attendance (with an appropriate allowance for absences) and some in-class testing of developing skills of comprehension and conversation. In determining the final grade, written tests given in the course of the term will carry progressively more weight (e.g., 20%, 30%, 40%). Detailed will be furnished during the first week of classes.
- to be announced.
GK 606Q Accelerated First-Year Greek |
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Unique No: |
28125 |
Course grade based on daily class work and weekly quizzes.
Prerequisite: Students should have previous experience studying a foreign language.
- Hansen & Quinn, Greek: An Intensive Course (2nd revised ed.).
- Adam, Plato: The Apology of Socrates
GK 507 First-Year Greek II |
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28135 |
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28130 |
Daily assignments covering grammar, vocabulary, composition, and translation will enable the diligent student to acquire a firm grasp of Attic Greek. Regular attendance is essential. Evaluation will be based on participation, homework, weekly quizzes, and three tests and a final.
Prerequisite: Greek 506 or equivalent (i.e. one semester of Greek).
The course can be used to meet elective or Area D requirements, or in partial fulfillment of the foreign language requirement.
- Shelmerdine and Wilding, Greek for Beginners (at Paradigm)
- Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (OUP)
- Freeman and Lowe, A Greek Reader for Schools (Bolchazy)
GK 312K Second-Year Greek II: Homer |
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Unique No: |
28145 |
Class meetings will be devoted not only to translation and discussion of Homer's Greek but also to exploring the mythological and cultural context of the Odyssey.
Grades will be based on regular quizzes (75% cumulative). Class participation will count for 25% of the final grade.
- W. B. Stanford, ed. Homer, Odyssey 1-12
- W.B. Stanford, ed. Homer, Odyssey 13-24
- Cunliffe, A Homeric Lexicon
GK 324 Sophocles |
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Unique No: |
28150 |
Grade: 20% each for two midterms and a final, 20% research paper, 20% daily in-class translation, including attendance.
- R.D. Dawe, Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge)
- B. M. W. Knox, Oedipus at Thebes (Yale)
- R.D. Dawe, Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge)
- B. M. W. Knox, Oedipus at Thebes (Yale)
GK 328/362 Christian Greek: Pauline Epistles |
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28155/28160 |
For those at the intermediate level (GK 328)the class will focus on reading and translating the Greek of Paul's letters with grammatical and syntactic analysis. Readings will survey the range of Paul's letters from earlier to later periods. Some will be read as a whole; others only in part to sample the flavor of language and composition. In addition students will be introduced to critical issues in Pauline letter formation and the tools for study of Pauline language and context, e.g., concordance and lexical aids. In addition to regular readings and quizzes, students will be expected to complete one essay project analyzing language of Paul's letters.
For those at the advanced level (GK 362) there will be an additioinal written project for comparing Paul's language and style with other Hellenistic Greek writings, especially in Greek Epistolography.
All students are expected to be prepared for daily readings in class of assigned sections of text. The schedule of readings plus additional readings and preparation will be given at the beginning of the semester.
Grading:
Class preparation/reading 33%
Quizzes/tests 33%
Paper/project 33%
- Nestle & Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece (27th ed.; Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993)
- H. Schmoller, Handkonkordanz zum Neuen Testament (revised ed.; Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994).
- S. Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986).
- C.F.D. Moule, An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek (2nd ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1960).
- An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon founded upon the 7th edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon, 1889; repr. 1997).
GK 365 Advanced Readings in Plato |
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28165 |
We will read two dialogues of Plato in Greek, Symposium and Phaedrus. A few other dialogues or passages will be read in English. We will spend some time in class discussing matters of translation (syntax, etc.) but will also consider many other matters, such as the dialogue form, Plato's views on love, rhetoric, drama, metaphysics, etc., Greek style, and the relation of the two dialogues to each other.
There will be two midterm exams and a final; these will include translation and essay questions. Students will also write a 7-10 page paper. Grades will be based roughly equally on these four assignments (paper and three exams), together with class participation.
- Plato, Symposium. Ed. with commentary by Dover.
- Oxford Classical text of Plato, vol. 2.
- Students should have access to a translation or translations of several of Plato's dialogues.
GK 380J Proseminar In Classical Literature |
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28185 |
Students will be expected to read the appropriate sections of standard literary histories, and approximately 500 lines of Greek or Latin text per week, as assigned by the various instructors.
The course grade will be based on periodic translation quizzes on the assigned reading (one-third) and an essay-style final exam on the general history of Greek and Latin Literature (two-thirds). G. B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Johns Hopkins).
- A. Lesky, A History of Greek Literature (xeroxed).
GK 383 Greek Tragedy |
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28190 |
Students will present a class report, will write a long paper, and will take a short test with translation and comments. The grade will be based on all three.
- Aeschylus OCT (Page).
- M. Griffith Sophocles Antigone. Cambridge U. P. 1999.
- C. Collard Euripides Hecuba Aris and Phillips.
GK 383 Papyrology |
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28195 |
- extensive reading of edited papyrus texts, from the Loeb editions and elsewhere;
- careful attention to the linguistic phenomenon of koine Greek with regard to phonology, morphology, and syntax; how the koine differs from the classica language and the relationship of the idiom of the papyri to that of other koine documents, such as the New Testament;
- acquaintance with the major branches of papyrology (including documentary, literary, magical, and Christian texts), including analysis of the form and structure of different kinds of papyrus documents;
- investigation of the contribution of papyrology to other areas of the study of antiquity such as literature, social history, linguistics, and religion.
Approximately the second half of the course will be devoted to the editing of an actual papyrus text including transcription, translation, and commentary.
Requirements for the course will include weekly preparations of translations of papyrus texts, reports from students on various topics, and a final paper consisting of the edition of a papyrus.
- E. G. Turner, Greek Papyri
- P. W. Pestman, A Papyrological Primer
- Loeb editions, Select Papyri, vol. I (private texts); II (public documents).
GK 383K Current Concepts in Research in Greek |
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28200 |
GK 390/CC 383 Greek Constitution |
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28210/28050 |
- • Students of the Lyceum collected one hundred fifty-eight of them.
- • Xenophon's treatment of Sparta's includes a description of brides dressed in drag.
- • Aristotle contrived a taxonomy of them.
- • None exists in fact.
Question: What is a politeia?
In this seminar we shall explore the full range of evidence (textual, archaeological, and epigraphic) for ancient Greek government. It is probably fair to conclude that we know more about Athens' democracy than we do about the governments of all other Greek poleis combined. And so Athens has become our model-- and yet a peculiar model in that Athens' democracy was clearly (or was it?) extraordinary. Our focus will be the Greek poleis apart from Athens.
We shall begin with Aristotle's taxonomy of politeiai and his discussion of political change in the Politics and then move on to examine how government worked in a range of Greek poleis.
Among the questions we shall consider are:
- • Are the categories of democracy and oligarchy as defined by Aristotle useful in analyzing ancient Greek government?
- • How was citizenship defined and how was its definition manipulated?
- • Can we identify political change in the epigraphic and archaeological sources? Or are we largely at the mercy of the interests and attention of the literary texts in its detection?
- • What was the nexus between the social organization of the community and its political structure?
- • How were public decisions made?
- • What mechanisms were there for controlling the conduct of officials?
- • Did the political institutions of a polis encourage or discourage broad participation on the part of the citizen population?
Grades will be based on regular and informed class participation, reports by seminarians, and a research paper. If you have $165.00 to spare, I would recommend P. J. Rhodes with the late D. M. Lewis, The Decrees if the Greek States. Oxford, 1997.
GK 390/CC 383 Mycenaean and Minoan Religion |
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28215/ 28060 |
Handouts and a substantial library reserve list.
GK 390 Presocratics |
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Unique No: |
28220 |
Materials will be discussed in translation. For students taking the class under the PHL 381 number, knowledge of Greek will not be presupposed. Both classics students and philosophy students in the seminar should have some prior familiarity with Greek intellectual history generally or with the history of ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle).
Students will be evaluated on term paper, seminar reports, collaborative projects, contributions to discussion, and attendance. Details and relative weights will be furnished in the course syllabus.
There will be special reading assignments (and compensatory modifications in requirements) for students taking the class under the GK 390 number. A "satellite" reading group, for students taking the course under the GK 390 number and for philosophy students who have sufficient proficiency in Greek, will work out translations of the new Empedocles fragments.
- Brad Inwood, The Poem of Empedocles (University of Toronto Press)
- C. C. W. Taylor, The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus
- (Both volumes in the Phoenix Pre-Socratics series of University of Toronto Press.)
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