Courses in Greek
Note: This page contains all of the regular courses taught by this department. Not all courses are offered every year. Check the searchable schedule to see which courses are being offered in the upcoming semester.
GREK 101Y Elementary Greek
Credit: 0.5
See the course description for GREK 111Y. Either GREK 101Y-102Y or GREK 111Y-112Y is offered every year.
GREK 111Y Intensive Elementary Greek
Credit: 0.75
This year-long course prepares students to read Ancient Greek literature in the original. The first semester and the first half of the second semester will be taken up with readings and exercises from a textbook designed to help students build a working vocabulary and to learn the extensive and subtle grammar of this language. In addition, every Tuesday and Thursday students will translate a short piece of authentic Greek, appreciating its artistry and situating it in its cultural context. After spring break, the hard work of the preceding months will be rewarded by the ability to read Plato's dialogue Crito in its entirety. The course is taught in English and does not presuppose any knowledge either of Ancient Greek or of grammatical terminology. No prerequisites. Either GREK 101Y-102Y or GREK 111Y-112Y is offered every year.
Instructor: Hahnemann
GREK 112Y Intensive Elementary Greek
Credit: 0.75
See the course description for GREK 111Y.
Instructor: Hahnemann
GREK 201 Intermediate Greek: Prose
Credit: 0.5
The goal of this course is to cultivate students' skills as readers of continuous Greek prose. To this end, students will expand their vocabulary as well as review and refine their understanding of the syntax of Ancient Greek. Upon completing this course, students will read Greek prose with greater precision, nuance, and speed. Authors read with some regularity in this course include Herodotus and Lysias; however, the particular text or texts will vary from year to year and may be complemented with a portion of a tragedy or comedy. Offered every fall.
GREK 202 Intermediate Greek: Homer
Credit: 0.5
It is a great pleasure to read Homer in Greek, and this course seeks to help students do so with accuracy and insight. Students will acquire a working knowledge of Homer's vocabulary and syntax, and will explore some of the key literary and historical questions that have occupied his readers. Offered every spring.
GREK 301 Advanced Greek: Greeks on Romans
Credit: 0.5
In Advanced Greek, students improve their skills in reading Greek and discuss scholarship on the author or authors being read that semester. Each semester the readings change, so that GREK 301 and 302 can be taken, to the student's advantage, several times. Students are encouraged to inform the instructor in advance if there is a particular genre, author, or theme they would especially like to study. The list of authors taught in this course includes, to name just a few, the lyric poets; the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes; and great prose stylists such as Plato and Thucydides. Offered every fall.
GREK 302 Advanced Greek: Greeks on Romans
Credit: 0.5
See the course description for GREK 301. Offered every spring.
GREK 493 Individual Study
Credit: 0.25-0.5
This course may be taken either to supplement the work of another course in the department or to pursue a special course of reading not otherwise provided. Prerequisites: permission of instructor and department chair.