GREEK (GREK)

Comprehensive coverage of basic grammar and syntax in two semesters, preparing students for reading Plato or Xenophon in GREK 203 (and with the instructor's permission, New Testament Greek in GREK 205).

Comprehensive coverage of basic grammar and syntax in two semesters, preparing students for reading Plato or Xenophon in GREK 203 (and with the instructor's permission, New Testament Greek in GREK 205).

Review of fundamentals; reading primarily in selected prose texts, such as Xenophon, Plato, Lysias, or others.

Reading primarily in selected poetic texts, such as Homer, Euripides, or others.

Readings from the Greek New Testament and related texts, with particular attention to grammar and syntax and consideration of their literary and cultural context.

Readings from classical Greek poetry or prose, with attention to their syntax, style, and cultural and historical context.

Readings from classical Greek poetry or prose, with attention to their syntax, style, and cultural and historical context.

Readings in Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, or other authors, with attention to their style and cultural/historical context. With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Readings from Homer, Greek tragedy, or other Greek poetry. With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

This course allows a student to design and execute an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Although the specifics will be determined on a case-by-case basis by the student and the faculty supervisor, the project will normally involve the careful study of key primary sources and engagement with relevant scholarship, and culminate in a major research paper (around 25 pages) or a suitable equivalent in another format (e.g., website, video). Permission of the Instructor.

Special Readings in Greek Literature.

Review of Attic grammar and idiom, exercises in composition, introduction to stylistics.

Selections from Homer, Hesiod, and/or the lyric and elegiac poets of the Archaic period, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from tragedy, Old Comedy, and/or historiography, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

Selections from philosophy, oratory, historiography, and/or New Comedy, focusing on works on the M.A. and Ph.D. reading lists.

This class has three goals: familiarizing students with Greek language, introducing them to concepts of Greek law by reading secondary literature, and directing them to current debates in the field.

With permission of the department, this course may be repeated for credit.

Topics vary from year to year.

Fall and spring. Staff.

Fall and spring. Staff.