01:490:101Elementary Greek I (3) Intensive study of Greek grammar in conjunction with readings in simple Greek prose. One weekly meeting in the Instructional Microcomputing Lab. |
01:490:102Elementary Greek II (3) Continued study of Greek grammar in conjunction with readings. Prerequisite: 01:490:101 or permission of instructor. One weekly meeting in the Instructional Microcomputing Lab. |
01:490:207Classical Greek Prose (3) Advanced review of Greek grammar through the reading of a work of Plato or several speeches of Lysias. Prerequisite: 01:490:102 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:208Euripides (3) Study of fifth-century Athenian drama through the reading of a play of Euripides. Prerequisite: 01:490:102 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:304Aristophanes (3) Reading of Clouds and of one other comedy; comparison of the Aristophanic with the Platonic Socrates; study of relation of Old Comedy to Athenian life. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:305Greek Drama (3) Readings in the works of fifth-century Greek dramatists with special emphasis on Sophocles. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:306From Athens to Alexandria (3) Major works of the literature of Greece from the fourth century b.c. into the Hellenistic Age. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 305 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:308Greek Historical Writings (3) Readings of selected narratives in Herodotus and of main speeches, excursuses, and parts of Books six and seven of Thucydides. Comparative study of historical method. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:309Lyric Poetry (3) Survey of the main poets of the "lyric age" of Greece (Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Solon, Theognis, Anacreon); reading of an ode of Pindar. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:310Greek Heroic Poetry (3) Studies in the poetry and culture of Homeric Greece. Selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:311New Testament Greek (3) Selections from the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles supplemented by a review of grammar and syntax. |
01:490:312Socratic Literature (3) Portraits of Socrates in Plato, Xenophon, Aeschines of Sphettus, and Aristophanes, with emphasis on the reading, in Greek, of selections from the writings of these authors. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 208 or permission of instructor. Course is jointly taught (in part) with 01:190:312. Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:312. |
01:490:315Menander (3) Study of Dyskolos and Samia as examples of "New Comedy"; their relation to Athenian life at the end of the fourth century. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:335Greek Prose Composition (3) Review of syntax, composition in Greek, and translation from English to Greek of continuous passages adapted from classical authors. Prerequisite: 01:490:207 or 208. |
01:490:391Readings in Greek Prose (3) Readings in selected ancient Greek prose authors or genres. Prerequisites: 01:490:305, 306 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:392Readings in Greek Poetry (3) Readings in the works of selected Greek poets or poetic genres. Prerequisites: 01:490:305, 306 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:400Demosthenes (3) Reading of one public and one private oration; study of Demosthenes as orator; as source for Athenian law, commerce, and private life; as statesman. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
01:490:402Plato and Aristotle (3) Reading of one Platonic dialogue followed by selected portions of an Aristotelian treatise. Attention to prose style and also to common problems and diverging solutions. Prerequisites: 01:490:207, 208 or permission of instructor. |
