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GRE 102 Basic Greek II

Carolyn Dewald

M T W Th .

10:30 - 11:30 am

OLIN 304

FLLC

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.  Class size: 15

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GRE 202 Intermediate Greek II

Carolyn Dewald

M . W . .

1:30 - 2:50 pm

OLIN 304

FLLC

In order to enter the spirit of Greek lyric, we will begin by reading for a couple of weeks the opening the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, which sings of the birth, haunts and skills of the god who presides over lyric composition and performance. We will then read selected poems of the two great poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, and later in the spring enter the world of victory song in odes of Pindar and Bacchylides. For a final stretch we will study a few of the great choruses of the Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, to be chosen in consultation with student interest. Careful attention will be paid from the beginning to meter, to questions of original performance practices, and to the occasions for which the texts we have were first fashioned. Class size: 15