GREEK 463 A: Hellenistic Greek Literature

Greek 463 Lucian’s A True Story (Spoiler: it ain’t!)

Spring 2021

MW 2:30-4:20

Zoom!

Instructor: James J. Clauss, Department of Classics

Office: Denny Hall M262F (difficult to find even apart from plague); tel. 543-2266 (department office phone)

E-mail: jjc@uw.edu

Office Hours: zoom by appointment

Holidays: Monday, May 31

Required Texts:

Hayes and S. Nimis (edd.), Lucian’s A True Story. An Intermediate Greek Reader. Faenum Publishing 2011; revised 2014.

Resources:

Herbert Weir Smyth, Greek Grammar Harvard University Press 1920 (on-line at Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001181313)

A True Story, with grammatical assistance, can be found at the Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a2008.01.0431

H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, Greek-English Lexicon is available on line at:

Logeion: https://logeion.uchicago.edu/lexidium

The Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0057

The Loeb Classical Library is available through the UW Library: http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/classics

Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: OUP 4^th ed. 2012 (3^rd ed. revised 2003), also at the UW Library: http://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/classics

Goals of the Course:

In addition to reading Lucian’s A True Story, a fantastic account of space travel in written in the 2^nd century CE, we’ll have a look from time to time at other post Classical texts, especially poems from the 3^rd century BCE Alexandria. The text presents much grammatical review, so we will also review morphology (forms), grammar and syntax along the way.

We will also have a look at Lucian’s remarkable output. I’ll ask students to read (in English) and report on some of his other works so that we can get an idea of the issues addressed by a 2nd century CE author of Syrian descent writing in Classical Athenian Greek, a fad of the century favored by writers associated with the so-called Second Sophistic. We will be learning about this together. I hope you are ready to have fun!

Grade:

Midterm (May 3): 25%

Final (Tuesday, June 8, completed by 4:20): 25%

Final Paper: (due Friday of the last week of class): 25%

Participation: 25%

The topics of the final paper will emerge during the quarter.

Schedule of Readings:

                        Monday          Wednesday   

Week 1            Intro                1.1-3

Week 2            1.4-8                1.9-13

Week 3            1.14-18            1.19-23

Week 4            1.24-28            1.29-33

Week 5            1.34-38            1.38-42

Week 6            Midterm          2.1-6

Week 7            2.7-12              2.13-18

Week 8            2.19-24            2.25-30

Week 9            2.31-36            2.37-42

Week 10          Holiday           2.43-47

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