GREEK 103 A: Introductory Greek

Summer 2024 B-term
Meeting:
MTWThF 9:30am - 11:40am / * *
SLN:
11585
Section Type:
Lecture
Instructor:
PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SEQUENCE
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Welcome to Greek 103!

Here's the Zoom link we'll use for class. (Monday-Friday at 9:30am PDT)

Course materials will be organized under Modules.

 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

-read and translate selections from ancient Greek authors and compose simple sentences in Greek.

-understand and explain literary, historical, and cultural context of ancient Greek texts

-analyze and explain ancient Greek grammar and syntax

-analyze and explain ancient Greek’s influence on and connection to other languages and literatures

By the end of the sequence (Greek 101, 102, 103 or Greek 300, Greek 103) you equip yourself to read any Greek author. In our second-year courses (Greek 304, 305, 306, 307) students read selections of Xenophon (306), Plato (307), Homer (307), and biblical texts (304).

This class will be held online in synchronous format. It is the 2nd course in a series of 2 continuing on from GREEK 300.

 

Required textbooks:

Anne Groton, From Alpha to Omega (4th ed.)

Anne Groton and James May, 46 Stories in Classical Greek

Course Schedule

Week 1

Thursday July 18

  • ΑΩLesson 27: Aorist Passive and review of verbs
  • In-class: Synopsis of παιδεύω

Friday July 19

  • Homework: Lesson 27 GtE (1, 2, 10) and EtG (1)
  • ΑΩ Lesson 28: Future Passive Tense; Future Perfect Active, etc.; οἶδα
  • Assessment 1 due Saturday by 5pm

Week 2

Monday July 22

  • Homework: Lesson 28 GtE (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10) and EtG (2)
  • ΑΩLesson 29: Third Declension: Vowel Stems and Syncopated Stems

Tuesday July 23

  • Homework: Lesson 29 GtE (1, 3, 5, 7–9) and EtG (2)
  • ΑΩLesson 30: Deponent Verbs; Genitive Absolute; εἶς, οὐδείς/μηδείς

Wednesday July 24

  • Homework: Lesson 30 GtE(1–3, 5, 6, 9) and EtG (3)
  • ΑΩLessons 31 & 32: Adverbs, Result Clauses; Comparatives and Superlatives

Thursday July 25

  • Homework: Lesson 31 GtE(5, 7, 8 10) and Lesson 32 GtE (3, 5, 6)
  • ΑΩLessons 33 & 34: Irregular Comparatives, Degree of Difference; Numerals

Friday July 26

  • Homework: Lesson 33 GtE(2, 3, 5, 6) and Lesson 34 GtE (3, 6, 9)
  • ΑΩLesson 35: Subjunctive Mood
  • Assessment 2 due by Saturday July 29 at 5pm

Week 3

Monday July 29

  • Homework: Lesson 35 GtE (1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10) and EtG (2)
  • ΑΩLesson 36: Optative Mood

 

Tuesday July 30

  • Homework: Lesson 36 GtE (1, 4–9) and EtG (1)
  • ΑΩLesson 37: Conditions

Wednesday July 31

  • Homework: Lesson 37 GtE(1–3, 5, 9–10) and EtG (3)
  • ΑΩLessons 38: Conditional Relative Clauses

Thursday August 1

  • Homework: Lesson 38 GtE(3–5, 6, 8, 10) and EtG (2)
  • ΑΩLesson 39: Purpose Clauses

Friday August 2

  • Homework: Lesson 39 GtE(1, 5, 6, 8–10) and EtG (1)
  • ΑΩ Lesson 40: εἶμι; Indirect Discourse (ὅτι/ὡς) 
  • Assessment 3 due Saturday by 5pm

Week 4

Monday August 5

  • Homework: Lesson 40 GtE (3, 4, 6, 8–10) and EtG (1)
  • ΑΩLesson 41: φημί; Indirect Discourse (Infinitive); ΑΩ Lessons 42: Indirect Discourse (with participle); Crasis; 

Tuesday August 6

  • Homework: Lesson 41 GtE (2–5, 8, 10) and EtG (2); Lesson 42 GtE(1, 2, 4, 6–8) and EtG (4)
  • ΑΩ Lessons 43+44More Uses of the Infinitive; πρίν; Verbal Adjectives

Wednesday August 7

  • Homework: Lesson 43 GtE (1, 2, 5, 6, 9) and Lesson 44 GtE (2, 4, 6)
  • ΑΩLesson 45: Clauses of Effort and Fear; ΑΩ Lesson 46: -μι verbs (δίδωμι, ἵστημι)

Thursday August 8 (Asynchronous)

  • Homework: Lesson 45 GtE (1, 4–6, 8, 10) and EtG (4); Lesson 46 GtE(2–5, 8, 9) and EtG (4)
  • ΑΩLessons 47: -μι verbs (τίθημι, ἵημι)

 

Friday August 9

  • Class cancelled: break to practice -mi verbs
  • Homework: Submit a synopsis of δίδωμι in the 2nd singular
  • Assessment 4 due Saturday by 5pm

 

Week 5

Monday August 12

  • ΑΩ48 + 49: Impossible Wishes; βαίνω, γιγνώσκω; Directional Suffixes; Accusative of Respect

Tuesday August 13

  • Homework: Lesson 48 GtE(2, 8, 10) and EtG (2); Lesson 49 GtE (1–5, 7, 8) and EtG (3)
  • ΑΩLesson 50: Redundant μή; Uses of μὴ οὐ and οὐ μή; Attraction of Relative Pronoun

Wednesday August 14

  • Homework: Lesson 50 GtE(1–5, 7, 9, 10)
  • Lesson: Homer + Morphology

Thursday August 15

  • Homer

Friday August 16

  • Homer

 

Catalog Description:
Reading of selections from classical Greek literature. Third in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: GREEK 102 or GREEK 300. Offered: SpS.
GE Requirements Met:
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
December 19, 2024 - 12:38 pm