INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK IV

Class begins on Tuesday November 5th, at 5pm Pacific (8pm Eastern), and continues for EIGHT Tuesdays. Last class will be on December 17th, 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.