GREEK

CRN	90221	Distribution	D
Course No.	GRE 101
Title	Elementary Greek I
Professor	James Romm
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm OLIN 302

Ancient Greek is the language of the epics of Homer, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the comedies of Aristophanes, the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, etc. In this course, students will learn the grammar of Greek and acquire a fundamental vocabulary. Attention will also be given to pronunciation and recitation of poetry and prose. Discussions of Greek culture and thought will occasionally result. In the second semester, significant passages from ancient authors will be read.

CRN	90267	Distribution	D
Course No.	GRE 201
Title	Intermediate Greek I: Plato's Symposium
Professor	William Mullen
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 118

Arguably the most brilliant dinner party ever portrayed or imagined, the symposium dramatized by Plato in his dialogue of that name covers, in its various characters' speeches on Eros, a whole range of different styles associated with genres flourishing during its imaginary date in the late Fifth Century: comedy, tragedy, rhetoric, medical treatise, Socratic dialectic, philosophical exposition. We will sample all these styles through reading parts of each speech in Greek, along with a reading of the entire dialogue in English and a sustained discussion of its philosophical content and its literary art. Through readings in translation we will also compare Plato's version of each style to Fifth Century specimens of it and examine the drama of the dialogue in the light of its historical moment. There will be periodic review of the grammar of Attic Greek and frequent vocabulary quizzes.