Course |
GRE 102 Basic Greek II |
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Professor |
James Romm |
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CRN |
15065 |
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Schedule |
M T W Th 10:00
- 11:00 am PRE 101 |
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Distribution |
OLD: B/D
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NEW: Foreign
Language, Literature, & Culture
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A continuation of Greek 101. Students will master
advanced grammar and syntax and begin preliminary readings in Plato,
Demosthenes, Sophocles, Euripides, and other Classical authors.
Course |
GRE 202 Intermediate Greek II |
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Professor |
William Mullen |
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CRN |
15119 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 301 |
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Distribution |
OLD: D
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NEW: Foreign Language,
Literature, & Culture
|
We will begin with Plato’s Ion, in which Socrates questions a Homeric rhapsode about his
craft. This reading will consolidate
students’ mastery of Attic prose. In
mid-semester we will then turn to the supreme poet whose status Plato has
Socrates question in both the Ion itself
and in Book X of the Republic (which
we will read in English, with looks at a few passages in Greek). The rest of the semester will consist of
reading as much as possible of the first book of the Iliad. In our prose reading we will explore questions of the
difference between imitations of colloquial speech and sentences stylized in
ways distinctive of fifth and fourth century Attic prose. In verse we will pay
close attention to meter and to the interaction of meter, sound and poetic
meaning.