Course:	GRE 102 Beginning Greek II
Professor:	Robert Cioffi
CRN:	90206	Schedule:	Mon Tue Wed Thurs 8:50 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 306
Distributional Area:	FL Foreign Languages and Lit	Class cap:	15
Credits:	4

Cross-listed: Classical Studies

This course, the second semester of the introductory Ancient Greek sequence, is designed to build on the foundations of Greek 101. Regular grammatical exercises and drills will be combined with an emphasis on developing skills for translating, reading, and interpreting Greek literature, with longer passages from classical authors as the semester continues. Prerequisite: Greek 101 or equivalent with the permission of the instructor ([email protected]).

Course:	GRE 306 Advanced Greek: Comedy and the City, Aristophanes' "Frogs"
Professor:	Lauren Curtis
CRN:	90207	Schedule:	Mon Fri 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 303
Distributional Area:	FL Foreign Languages and Lit	Class cap:	15
Credits:	4

Cross-listed: Classical Studies

Aristophanes' comedies, at once bawdy and wordy, revolutionary and reactionary, combine spectacular mass entertainment with highly topical social commentary on Athens in the fifth century BCE. We will read in the original Greek Aristophanes' Frogs, first performed in 405 BCE, in which the god Dionysus descends to the Underworld to choose one of the recently-deceased tragic playwrights, Aeschylus and Euripides, to return to help the city in crisis. Part biting literary satire, part absurdist fantasy, the play puts under the microscope the relationship between drama and society in Athens. Students will further develop Greek reading fluency while gaining a range of critical approaches to Aristophanes' play and working on research skills in Classics (including writing a research paper). Prerequisite: Greek 201/202 or permission of the instructor.