Course

GRE 102   Basic Greek II

Professor

James Romm

CRN

15065

 

Schedule

M T W Th    10:00  - 11:00 am  PRE 101

Distribution

OLD: B/D

NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, & Culture

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

Professor

William Mullen

CRN

15119

 

Schedule

Tu Th          1:30  -2:50 pm      OLIN 301

Distribution

OLD: D

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.