GK 606Q Accelerated First-Year
Greek
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27980
Cook
MWF 2-3/TTH 2-3:30
WAG 112/WAG 112
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This course is an intensive introduction to ancient Greek designed to
provide students as quickly as is feasible with a solid foundation
for reading original passages in Attic prose and poetry. We shall use
a long-established introductory Greek text, and move at a pace which
will challenge but not overwhelm. At the end of the course, we shall
begin reading Plato's Apology.
Course grade based on daily class work, periodic quizzes, regular
one-hour tests, and a final exam.
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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27985
Martinez
M-F 9:00-10:00
WAG 10
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This course continues the introduction to reading Ancient Greek begun
in Greek 506. Starting with a brief review, we shall complete the
basic grammar and move on to read some actual Greek literature.
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 two 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.
CW Shelmerdine, Greek for Beginners (at
Paradigm)
Freeman and Lowe, A Greek Reader for Schools
GK 507 First-Year Greek II
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27990
Armstrong
M-F 11:00-12:00
JES A209A
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This course continues the introduction to reading Ancient Greek begun
in Greek 506. Starting with a brief review, we shall complete the
basic grammar and move on to read passages from various Greek
authors. As Greek 506 this year was based on Shelmerdine &
Wilding, Greek for Beginners, and the brief review will be based on
this book, copies will be available at the Co-Op for any student who
wants to start on the basis of some previous knowledge of Greek.
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
Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (OUP)
Freeman & Lowe, Greek Reader (Bolchazy)
GK 312K Second-Year Greek II: Homer
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28000
Cook
MWF 12:00-1:00
WAG 308
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We shall read in Greek extensive selections from the Odyssey, and the
entire epic in English translation.
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 (50% cumulative), and a final
examination (25%). 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 1 - Euripides
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28005
Nethercut
MWF 10:00-11:00
WAG 112
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This is a Junior level reading course; students should have two years
of ancient Greek or its equivalent. In the course we shall translate
and discuss two complete Euripidean plays, the Hippolytus and the
Bacchae. We shall also read approximately twenty-five verses of
trimeter from these plays at the beginning of each session. Although
mastery of the grammar and vocabulary is the primary objective of the
course, class discussion of significant interpretive issues will be
encuraged.
Grades will be based on a midterm (20%), class participation (30%),
and a final (50%).
Euripides, Hippolytus (Oxford)
Euripides, R.E. Dodds, ed. Bacchae (Oxford)
GK 328 /362 Apocalyptic
Literature
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28010/28015
McNicol
TTH 12:30-2:00
GAR 203
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We will spend most of the time in this course in reading and
translating Koine Greek in early Christian literature in the area of
apocalyptic literature. Our goal is to improve facility in reading
Greek and to come to grapple with the phenomenon of apocalyptic
thinking as it emerged in early Christian literature.
Procedurally, we will commence looking at some of the earliest
writing on the subject (Paul's letters to Thessalonica); and then we
will turn to the famous Markan synoptic Apocalypse. After that, we
will work through the Apocalypse of John (Revelation). Finally, if we
have time, we will look at the phenomenon of the apocalypse in some
non-canonical literature (Didache, and perhaps Hermas, etc) of the
second century of our era.
The course will focus upon reading. However, depending upon need we
will stop from time to time and review points of grammar and
syntax.
Requirements
*Regular preparation for translating the assigned passage each day in
class. Students should come prepared to read and translate the
assigned passage on any given day.
*Students will be expected to read the textbook and answer general
discussion questions about it on quizzes.
*Students will be given an assignment to define apocalypticism and to
determine its role and function in some movement or period in western
culture (5-7 pages)
Method of Evaluation
*Three tests will be given during the semester. The tests will
feature primarily translation and location of verbs, participles, and
infinitives, several discussion questions based on the reading will
also occur (75% of grade).
*Assignment on Apocalypticism. (15% of grade).
*Grade for competency in daily reading. (10% of grade).
Aland, Black, Martini (et al. editors) The Greek New
Testament and Dictionary. 4th revised edition (Stuttgart:
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1994). The dictionary should be
adequate for the course.
Russell, D.S., Prophecy and the Apocalyptic Dream
(Hendrickson)
Court, J.M., Revelation! New Testament Guides (Academic
Press)
GK 365 Aristotle
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28020
Perlman
MWF 11:00-12:00
WAG 308
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Why do people live together in states rather than separately in
households? What is a state (polis)? What is a democracry? an
oligarchy? an aristocracy? What are the positive and negative
qualities of each? How are they changed? How preserved? Did all
Athenians favor the radical democracy of the fifth century B.C. and
the Athenian maritime empire which helped to support it? If not, what
form(s) did criticism of the democracy and empire take? These are
only a few of the questions which we will explore through the
writings of Aristotle, especially Aristotle's Politics, book 4, 5 and
6, Xenophon, especially Xenophon's Constitution of the
Lacedaemonians, and the "Old Oligarch". One goal of this course is to
read Greek prose with ease and accuracy. To that end, we shall spend
most of our time translating and analyzing the Greek of Aristotle,
Xenophon and the Old Oligarch. But to appreciate the larger social
and political context, we shall read and discuss supplementary
material on the period and the issues.
Grades will be based on periodic quizzes and exercises (20%), a
midterm (15%) and final (25%), an 8-10 page written paper (20%) and
classroom participation (20%).
Prerequisite: Three years of Greek or consent of instructor.
Xenophon VII Scripta Minora (Loeb)
Aristotle, Politics (OCT)
C. D. C. Reeve, ed., Aristotle Politics (Hackett)
J. M. Moore, Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and
Oligarchy (UCal Press
GK 385 Hellenistic Poetry
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28060
Cairns
MW 12:00-1:30
WAG 10
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This course will devote itself to reading and discussion of a wide
range of hellenistic poetry. Selected passages from writers of the
third century BC - Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, the major
epigrammatists, and others - will be its basis.
We shall be attempting to identify the key characteristics and
techniques of hellenistic literature ('learning' in all its
manifestations, 'ponos', 'variety', etc.) and to elicit
interpretative methods applicable to it. We shall also take some
thought about its cultural and historical background and examine some
of the current scholarly approaches to it.
Grades will be assessed partly on classroom work and presentations
(40%), partly on occasional translation exams and quizzes (30%), and
partly on an in-depth term paper in lieu of a final examination.
Neil Hopkinson (sel. and ed.), A Hellenistic Anthology,
Cambridge U.P., 1998, Paperback.
GK 390 Aristotle on Scientific
Method
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28070
Hankinson
T 3:30-6:30
WAG 210
meets with PHL 381 ( 38805)
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It has long been noticed that there is a mismatch between what
Aristotle says science ought to look like in his meta-theoretic
moments, and what his actual science actually does look like. We
shall examine both Aristotle's theory of science ('Posterior
Analytics,' 'Parts of Animals I') and his practice of it (various
texts drawn from 'Physics,' 'Metaphysics,' 'De Caelo,' 'Meteorology'
and the biology). Questions to be addressed will include: what is the
relation between empiricism and the a priori for Aristotle?
How defensible is his theory of scientific explanation? What is the
relation between science and demonstration? Does Aristotle have an
adequate epistemology for scientific investigation?
Grading: 1 term paper
J. Barnes, Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
(Oxford: Clarendon Aristotle Series)
D.M. Balme, Aristotle's Parts of Animals I and Generation of
Animals I (ibid.)
plus various photocopied readings
GK/LAT 180K Meter
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28043/28308
Hubbard
TBA
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CC/GK/LAT 380J Proseminar In Classical
Literature
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27900/28040/28305
Hubbard
TTH 2:00-3:30
WAG 10
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This course is designed for first-year graduate students as a brief
survey of the history of Classical Literature, and a basic
orientation to the major periods and genres. Different members of the
faculty (and occasionally, visitors from outside the department) will
lecture students in one-week installments on topics such as Archaic
Greek Epic, Archaic Greek Lyric, Greek Tragedy, Greek Comedy, Greek
Historiography, Greek Oratory, Hellenistic Literature, Ancient
Philosophy, Republican Roman Literature, Roman Epic, Roman
Historiography, Roman Satire, Republican and Augustan Lyric, Silver
Latin, and the Literature of Late Antiquity.
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/LAT 180K Social Theory
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28045/28310
Riggsby
M 3:00-4:00
WAG 10
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This seminar is a counterpart to the literary theory seminars taught
recently by Drs. Goff and Collins. We will consider various topics of
interest to the general theory of social interaction such as
"ideology", "social construction", "structuration", and whether there
can even be a "general theory of social interaction." We will be
interested both in how these concepts arose in their original (mostly
sociological and anthropological) contexts and how/whether they may
usefully be applied to the study of classical antiquity--whether in
"literary", "art/archeological", or "historical" modes. Each meeting
will consist of discussion of readings of important theoretical
texts. No exam or paper. Students may occasionally be asked to
present a summary of the general reading assignment for the week.
course reader
GK/LAT 180K 2- Sight
Translation
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28050 / 28315
Zissos
F 12:00-1:00
WAG 10
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Coursework will consist of extensive translations. Students will be
expected to have a solid background in Greek and Latin grammar and
vocabulary.
Grades will based on quizzes, in-class translation drills, and a
final exam.
Latin
Classical Civilizations
Spring 1999 Classics Offerings
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