Grk 076 S12 |
Intermediate Greek: Drama |
Syllabus |
Human: | |
Coordinates: | MWF
1505-1555; |
Access: | Classical
Studies, 229A Allen Bldg. |
Spiel: This course is designed to help you improve the ease and facility with which you read Ancient Greek. To that end we shall read aloud, translate, and discuss Sophocles' Antigone and Menander's Dyskolos. I hope that we as a class will keep two goals in mind:
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Sources: books to purchase (you can probably find all of these used);
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Support: TLG offers all sorts of handy supports, which you should feel free to explore and exploit. For example, you can find there the Greek text of the Antigone. This is not the same text that we are using, but it is pretty similar. Words in the texts are linked to a program that identifies the form of individual words and also to an on-line version of LSJ, a dictionary much fatter than the intermediate Liddell-Scott. If you absolutely cannot identify the form of a word, consult TLG. If you are stranded somewhere without a dictionary but happen to have an internet connection, consult TLG. Use of TLG is not mandatory, but I think that you will find it very handy. Don't let it bcome a crutch. |
Schedule: NOTE: for now, the syllabus does includes scant individual reading assignments. I shall post reading targets at end of each class (e.g. "get though line 123"); if on any given day you are uncertain how far to read, consult this syllabus. We may need to adjust our pace, but the dates of quizzes are fixed. We shall read all of Sophocles, Antigone, except for most of the choral passages; these we shall read in translation. When we finishthe play we shall take a take-home translation exam. This should fall slightly after Spring Break, depending on the pace that we are able to maintain. After that we shall read Menander's Dyskolos in full (I shall provide text and commentary when the time comes). |
Week | For Mon. | For Wed. | For Fri. |
1 | 01/11 unseen 1-18? |
01/13 |
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2 | 01/16 - No Class - - MLK jr Holiday |
01/18 |
01/20 |
3 | 01/23 |
01/25 |
01/27 - Quiz 1 - covering lines 1-292 (minus choral passage 100-161) No reading assignment; we shall devote the time remaining after the quiz to a review of lines 1-279. |
4 |
01/30 |
02/01 |
02/03 |
5 | 02/06 |
02/08 |
02/10 - Quiz 2 - covering lines 293-530 |
Aim for 555 (ca.25 ll.) |
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6 | 02/13 |
02/15 |
02/17 |
7 | 02/20 |
02/22 |
02/24 - Quiz 3 |
Aim for 1090 (ca.25 ll.) |
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8 | 02/27 |
03/01 |
03/03 |
9 | 03/05 SPRING BREAK |
03/07 - SPRING BREAK | 03/09 - SPRING BREAK |
10 | 03/12 - |
03/14 Aim for 1277-1353 |
03/16 - take home test |
11 | 03/19 NOTE: for Menander's TEXT use this edition. For the COMMENTARY use the edition that I handed out in class. |
03/21 |
03/23 - Quiz 4 |
got through | |||
12 | 03/26 |
03/28 - |
03/30 - |
13 | 04/02 |
04/04 |
04/06 - Quiz 5 |
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14 | 04/09 |
04/11 |
04/13 |
15 | 04/16 |
04/18 |
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04/20 | |||
16 | 04/23 |
04/25 |
Sweat: You can earn a total of 500 points in this class; they break down as follows:
How I grade / calculate grades:
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