GREK

What is the Iliad about? Although the poem famously announces its theme to be “the wrath of Achilles,” the first three books of the epic repeatedly expand and shift the poem’s scope, altering the audience’s perspective and sympathies. In this course, we will read in Greek the first three books of the Iliad, with an eye to the poem’s multiple “beginnings.” Our aim will be to explore how these layered openings set up the Iliad’s manifold and rich narrative.

This course will examine the iambic, elegiac, lyric, and epinician genres of archaic and classical Greece, including the poetry of Sappho, Archilochus, Corinna, Bacchylides, Pindar, and many other. We will focus on questions of performance, genre, and context; on the texts’ relationships to each other and other ancient poetic traditions; and to a broad range of cultural, social, and political aspects of the archaic and classical Greek world(s), including sex and sexuality, class, gender, and other forms of identity, and the relationship of the individual to the community. The mythological, dramatic, and formal poetic aspects of these poems will be explored as well as questions of meter and dialect. 

Mastering Greek is an intensive Greek language course for pre-professional Hellenists. Do you find yourself fudging accents sometimes? Wondering about the use of infinitives versus participles? Pondering the future less vivid? Have you found yourself speaking Greek while looking in the mirror? This course will help you review Attic Greek from the level of the word to the short paragraph. Recommended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, especially those who aspire to teach Greek. Assignments will include extensive written homework in Attic Greek, analytic exercises, creative writing exercises, as well as regular quizzes in order to advance to strong, active mastery of the language.  

This course will examine the iambic, elegiac, lyric, and epinician genres of archaic and classical Greece, including the poetry of Sappho, Archilochus, Corinna, Bacchylides, Pindar, and many other. We will focus on questions of performance, genre, and context; on the texts’ relationships to each other and other ancient poetic traditions; and to a broad range of cultural, social, and political aspects of the archaic and classical Greek world(s), including sex and sexuality, class, gender, and other forms of identity, and the relationship of the individual to the community. The mythological, dramatic, and formal poetic aspects of these poems will be explored as well as questions of meter and dialect. 

This is the second quarter of a two-part course that will cover the long life of ancient Greek poetry and prose, touching on many genres in their first forms: epic and hymns, history, oratory, and philosophical dialogues, poetry that is theogonic, iambic, elegiac, lyric, epinician, tragic, comedic, and dithyrambic. We will seek to discuss key moments, passages, and poems that give us entry to larger literary questions and themes. We will pay particular attention to details of genre, dialect, and meter, while also being attentive to the history of scholarship that attends on these traditions. We will continue to read a lot of Greek. 

This is the first quarter of a two-part course that will cover the long life of ancient Greek poetry and prose, touching on many genres in their first forms: epic and hymns, history, oratory, and philosophical dialogues, poetry that is theogonic, iambic, elegiac, lyric, epinician, tragic, comedic, and dithyrambic. We will seek to discuss key moments, passages, and poems that give us entry to larger literary questions and themes. We will pay particular attention to details of genre, dialect, and meter, while also being attentive to the history of scholarship that attends on these traditions. We will read a lot of Greek. 

In this course, we will read mostly Plato, also some Aristotle. 

Immerse yourself in the Greek poetry written by various authors from ancient Greece and the subsequent Hellenic tradition.  This course involves reading (a) substantial selection(s) from (an) important moment(s) in this literary history (e.g. Homer’s Iliad).  In addition to translation, regular discussion will focus on the relationship between language and literary art, the legacy of the work or works under consideration, and the study of grammar and vocabulary as necessary.  This course is appropriate for students who have completed GREK 201, GREK 202, or their equivalent. 

Immerse yourself in the Greek poetry written by various authors from ancient Greece and the subsequent Hellenic tradition.  Readings this quarter concentrate on (a) substantial selection(s) of Greek poetry (e.g. Sophocles, Euripides).  This class focuses on the literary and historical context of the text(s) in question, as well as the rhetorical and stylistic qualities of Greek poetry.  Review of grammar and the development of vocabulary will occur as necessary. This course is appropriate for students who have completed GREK 201 or its equivalent. 

Immerse yourself in the prose written by various authors from ancient Greece and the subsequent Hellenic tradition.  Readings this quarter involve increasingly longer selections of Greek prose (e.g. Plato, Xenephon), with an aim to review grammar and improve reading proficiency.   Discussion in class will focus on the literary, historical, and cultural contexts necessary to appreciate the authors and texts.  In addition to review, more advanced grammar will occasionally be introduced and vocabulary will be surveyed as necessary. This course is usually appropriate for students who have completed GREK 103, several years of high school Greek, or equivalent work.