INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK III
This is the third course in a continuing series. At the conclusion of Introduction III, Fellows will have the fundamentals of complex Greek syntax—e.g., conditional and contrary-to-fact constructions—with verbs in the all tenses the indicative mood, in the active, middle and passive voices, and a greatly expanded Greek vocabulary.
Class begins on Tuesday September 3rd, at 5pm Pacific (8pm Eastern), and continues for EIGHT Tuesdays. Last class will be on October 22nd, 2024.
TEXTS: Maurice Balme & Gilbert Lawall, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book I, 3rd ed., rev. James Morwood (Oxford University Press, 2016); ISBN 13: 978-0-19-060766-1; Maurice Balme & Gilbert Lawall, An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book II, 3rd ed., rev. James Morwood (Oxford University Press, 2016);
Our text, Athenaze, vols. I – II, is justly celebrated for leading students steadily and
efficiently from simplified readings, through gradual grammatical and syntactical refinements, to original texts—and it introduces selected, readable originals as milestones all along the course of this development.
Class meetings of Introduction to Ancient Greek, III, will depart from the format adopted in Introduction I – II. Typically, class meetings will concentrate on one of the two divisions, (α) and (β), into which each chapter of Athenaze falls, allowing for closer analysis of translations and increased in-class attention to newly introduced morphology, grammar and syntax: the pace will be slowed, but instruction will be more thorough. Fellows will be invited to volunteer to parse and translate sections of the Greek narrative proposed for each week’s class, together with extracts from original sourses–some supplied in Athenaze, some supplied by the instructor. Adequate preparation? Spend an hour in study for each hour in class: recite readings aloud; write out Vocabulary on 3 x 5 cards (Greek on the front, translation on the back), and run through the whole collection once each week; write out English and Greek translations and compare them to the paradigms produced in class; in all things, note difficulties, RAISE QUESTIONS.
Complete keys to each weekly lesson and associated exercises in morphology, grammar and syntax will be posted after each class meeting for Fellows’ personal use.
TEXTS: Maurice Balme & Gilbert Lawall, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book I, 3rd ed., rev. James Morwood (Oxford University Press, 2016); ISBN 13: 978-0-19-060766-1; Maurice Balme & Gilbert Lawall, An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book II, 3rd ed., rev. James Morwood (Oxford University Press, 2016);
Course Readings Per Week
Week One - 9/3/24 Athenaze Book I, Ch. 15, Η ΕΝ ΤΗΙ ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΙ ΜΑΧΗ, (α): 18 lines of narrative translation (Greek - English), Luke 2: 1 - 14 (about 20 lines); selected short classical readings (about 20 lines); morphology, grammar, syntax: athematic 2nd aorists; -οω contract verbs (δηλόω, ἐλευθερόω); 2nd-declension contract nouns (νόο + ς → νοῦς), with on-screen exercises.
Week Two - 9/10/24 Athenaze Book I, Ch. 15, Η ΕΝ ΤΗΙ ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΙ ΜΑΧΗ, (β): 58 lines of narrative translation (Greek - English), and selected short classical readings (about 25 lines); morphology, grammar, syntax: adverbial and conjunctive uses of ὡς; more on cardinal and ordinal numbers; on-screen exercises in English-to-Greek translation.
Week Three - 9/17/24 Athenaze Book I, Ch. 16, ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΝ ΤΗΙ ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΙ ΜΑΧΗΝ, (α): 35 lines of narrative translation (Greek- English), selected short readings from classical sources (about 25 lines); morphology, grammar, syntax: forms and uses of the passive voice, with on-screen exercises.
Week Four - 9/24/24 Athenaze Book I, Ch. 16, ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΝ ΤΗΙ ΣΑΛΑΜΙΝΙ ΜΑΧΗΝ, (β): 40 lines of (Greek - English) narrative translation, classical selections from Sappho and Simonides (8 lines), Luke 2: 15 - 20 (completing Luke’s narrative of Jesus’ birth, begun in Athenaze, Ch. 15); morphology, grammar, syntax: verbs with athematic present and imperfect tenses (δύναμαι, κείμαι, ἐπίσταμαι), on-screen exercises in English-to-Greek translation.
Week Five - 10/1/24 Athenaze Book II, Ch. 17, Η ΕΠΙΔΑΥΡΟΣ, (α) - (β): 22 lines of (Greek - English) narrative translation; morphology, grammar, syntax: principal parts of verbs with stems in υ in and αυ; 1st aorist and future passives in -θη (λύω, φυλάττω, λέγω, πέμπω) from Ch. 17 (α), 2nd aorist and future passives in -η (γράφω, διαφθείρω, φαίνομαι) from Ch. 17 (β); aorist form of deponent verbs from from Ch. 17 (β)—with on-screen exercises.
Week Six - 10/8/24 Athenaze Book II, Ch. 17, Η ΕΠΙΔΑΥΡΟΣ, (β): 68 lines of (Greek - English) narrative translation, classical Greek inscriptions from the temple to Asklepius at Epidaurus (c. 10 lines), New Testament selections from John 1 (5 lines), further selected short classical readings (c. 25 lines).
Week Seven - 10/15/24 Athenaze Book II, Ch. 18, O ASKLHPIΟΣ, (α) - (β): morphology, grammar, syntax¨ (α) principal parts of -εω, and (β) principal parts of -αω and -οω contract verbs; introduction to -μι verbs—(α) δίδωμι, (β) τίθημι—with on-screen exercises and translations.
Week Eight - 10/22/24 Athenaze Book II, Ch. 18, O ASKLHPIΟΣ, (α) - (β): 16 lines (Greek - English) narrative translation (α), continuing with 40 further lines (β), translation of a narrative adapted from Herodotus, ΕΝ ΤΑΙΣ ΠΛΑΤΑΙΑΙΣ ΝΙΚΗ (20 lines, β), 3 brief selections from Heraclitus (α) - (β), classical Greek selection on miracle cures (β, 10 lines), some further brief classical passages (c. 21 lines), and New Testament verses (3) from John 1.
Course Content
Week One - 9/3/24
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