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Week 1: 9/3-9/7

 

M 9/3

Introduction to the Course; Herodotous, Histories Prologue

 

W 9/5

Dialect Review: Dialect (read pp. 8-12, but note esp. § 1-6, 18, 22, 23, 33-35); OGCG pp. 228-29

Primary Reading: Histories 1.1.1-1.1.4

Write: Worksheet (complete only the "Vocabulary" and "Difficulties & Questions" sections; we will do the rest in class on Wednesday)

Resources

• Podcast recordings of Herodotus
  • study-speed: http://haverford.edu/classics/audio/GREK101_2007study.xml
  • natural: http://haverford.edu/classics/audio/GREK101_2007natural.xml
  • Instructions for subscribing to Podcasts using iTunes [for Mac] [for PC]
• Histories 1.1.1-4 (by word-group)

 

F 9/7

Primary Reading: Histories 1.2.1-1.2.3

Write: Worksheet (complete “Vocabulary”, “Difficulties & Questions” and “Questions” # 1-5 only

Grammar Review: General Endings of Verbs; Review Ionic Dialect

Quiz

Resources

• Histories 1.2.1-1.2.3 (by word-group)

 

 

Week 2: 9/10-9/14

 

M 9/10

Primary Reading: Histories 1.3.1-1.4.4

Grammar Review: Definite Article, Relative Pronoun (form)

Write: Worksheet; note: at the end of the 'by word-group' version of 1.4, you will see an exercise asking you to re-write the final sentence of our reading by word-group. Give this a try; we will go over this in class.

Resources

• Histories 1.3.1-1.4.4 (by word-group)

 

 

W 9/12

Primary Reading: Histories 1.5.1-1.6.1

Write: Worksheet; N.B. I will be collecting this worksheet (but we can still review questions you have in class).

Grammar Review: Uses of the Genitive (review suggestions: you can look in OGCG or on the handout 'Uses of Greek Cases'; for those of you with Luschnig, she also has a similar breakdown in her appendix).

Resources

• Histories 1.5.1-1.7 (by word-group)

 

F 9/14

Primary Reading: Histories 1.6.2-1.7.4

Grammar Review: Conjugation of -μι verbs: τιθημι

Quiz

 

 

Week 3: 9/17-9/21

 

M 9/17

Primary Reading: Histories 1.8.1-1.9.3

Write: Worksheet

Grammar Review: Adjectives (including irregular comparatives, OGCG p. 43)

Resources

• Histories 1.8-1.9 (by word-group)

 

W 9/19

Primary Reading: Histories 1.10.1-1.11.2

Write: Worksheet

Grammar Review: Uses of Dative

Resources

• Histories 1.10-1.12 (by word-group)

 

F 9/21

Primary Reading: Histories 1.11.3-1.12.2

Grammar Review: ω-verbs: Indicative and Subjunctive Active

Resources

• Histories 1.10-1.12 (by word-group)

Quiz




Week 4: 9/24-9/28

 

M 9/24

Primary Reading: Lyric: Sappho 31

Write: a 3-to-4 sentence summary of the poem in Greek (pick a dialect)

Grammar Review: Basics of Aeolic Dialect; Demonstrative Pronouns

Resources:

• Longinus On the Sublime 10: the passage which preserves Sappho 31
• Website of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri: including introduction to the city where the papyri were found, and the ability to search by author. Search for Sappho and look at a fragment or two. The Oxyrhynchus Project is also using web technology in interesting ways, allowing you to manipulate related fragments and manipulate the image to bring out details (in this case a new fragment of Archilochus)

 

W 9/26

English Reading: 1.13-1.22

Greek Reading: 1.23.1-1.24.8

Write: Worksheet

Grammar Review: Uses of Nominative and Accusative

Resources

• Histories 1.23-24 (by word-group)
• Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary

 

F 9/28

English Reading: 1.25-28

Greek Reading: Histories 1.29.1-1.30.5

Grammar Review: ω-verbs: Indicative and Subjunctive Middle/Passive

Quiz (including uses of cases)

Resources

• Histories 1.29-30 (by word-group)

 

 

 

Week 5: 10/1-10/5

 

M 10/1 (Mystery Professor! )

Greek Reading: 1.31.1-1.32.3

English Reading: Poetry of Solon (selections) [handout]

Write: Worksheet

Grammar Review: Participles (forms)

Resources

• Histories 1.31-34 (by word-group)

   

W 10/3

Greek Reading: 1.32.4-1.34.2

English Reading: 1.35-1.64 (we will discuss this in class)

Grammar Review: Participles (uses)

Resources

• Histories 1.31-34 (by word-group)

 

 

F 10/5

Greek Reading: Sappho 1; Sappho 16 (stanzas 1 and 2 only)

Write: Meter Worksheet

Resource: Introduction to Greek Meter; A reconstructed recording of Sappho 1

Grammar Review: ω-verbs: Optative and Infinitive

Quiz

 

 

 

Week 6: 10/8-10/12

 

M 10/8

Greek Reading: 1.86.1-1.87.1

English Reading: 1.35-1.85 (we will discuss in class)

Grammar Review: Participles (uses)

Resources

• Histories 1.86-89 (by word-group)

 

W 10/10

Greek Reading: 1.87.2-1.89.3

Write: Worksheet

Grammar Review: First declension

Resources

• Histories 1.86-89 (by word-group)

 

 

F 10/12

Greek (and English) Reading: "New Sappho", Alcaeus Handout

Write Meter Worksheet

Quiz




Week 7: 10/22-10/26

 

M 10/22

Greek Reading: Histories 2.113.1-2.115.6 (= Barbour p. 94.14-p. 96.9)

English Reading: 1.90-end of Book 1

Grammar Review: Conditionals

Write: Identify the type of conditionals in in today's reading

Resources

• Histories 2.113.1-2.115.6 (by word-group)

 

 

W 10/24

Greek Reading: Histories 2.116.1-2.119.3 (= Barbour p. 96.10-p. 98.2)

Grammar Review: Sequence of Tenses

English Reading: You are encouraged to read Histories 2.1-115 soon, we will not necessarily discuss it in detail, but it is a fascinating ethnographic account of Egypt.

Resources

• Histories 2.116.1-2.119.3 (by word-group)

 

 

F 10/26

Greek Reading: Histories 2.120 (=Barbour p. 98.6-p. 99.4)

Resources

• Histories 2.120 (by word-group)

Midterm Due by 4 p.m. in my mailbox

 

 

Week 8: 10/29-11/2

 

M 10/29

Greek Reading: Histories 2.124-125 ("Cheops"= Barbour p. 103.4-104.25)

Grammar Review: Sequence of Tenses and Moods

 

W 10/31

Greek Reading: Histories 6.48-49, 94ff. (= Barbour p. 152.1-153.26)

Grammar Review: Time and Time Clauses

Write: Exam Corrections

 

F 11/2

Greek Reading: Archilochus 1, 2, 3, 6, 60

QUIZ (including conditionals and sequence of tenses)

 

Week 9: 11/5-11/9

 

M 11/5

Greek Reading: Histories 6.98-101 (= Barbour p. 153.26-155.13)

Grammar Review: Uses of ο? & μ?

Write: Worksheet

 

W 11/7

Greek Reading: Histories 6.105-109 (= Barbour p. 155.14-156.27)

Grammar Review: Common Irregular Adjectives

Write: 3-4 sentence summary of reading in Greek

 

F 11/9

Greek Reading: Histories 6.110 (= Barbour p. 156.27-157.20)

QUIZ

 

 

Week 10: 11/12-11/16

 

M 11/12

Greek Reading: Histories Barbour p. 157.20-159.30

 

 

W 11/14

English Reading: Herodotus Histories 6.118-7.32

Greek Reading: Archilochus 196A aka "The New Archilochus" (found in the "Appendix" of the packet, just before the commentary; there is no commentary for this poem beyond the short introduction). There is some background about the (reconstructed and possibly fictitous) affair on p. 136-37, and 155 of the commentary.

Highly Recommended Greek Reading: Further readings on Archilochus, Lycambes, and Neoboule--Archilochus 71; 88, 89, 92a, 94 (the last 4 are probably fragments of one poem)

 

 

 

F 11/16

Greek Reading: Histories Barbour p. 171.1-172.5

 

 

 

Week 11: 11/19

 

M 11/19

Greek Reading: Barbour p. 174.3-p.175.28

 

 

 

W-F 11/21-23

English Reading: Herodotus 7.141

Greek Reading: Barbour p. 176.20-p.178.9

 

 

Week 12: 11/26-11/30

 

M 11/26

English Reading: Herodotus 7.145-201

Greek Reading: Barbour p. 179.12-181.12

 

W 11/28

Greek Reading: Barbour p. 181.13-p.183.19

 

F 11/30

Greek Reading: Barbour p. 183.19-p.184.8

Resources: Guide to Researching a Classic Paper or Presentation, with links to JSTOR, L'Annee Philologique, and TLG.

 

 

Week 13: 12/3-12/7

 

M 12/3

Greek Reading: Barbour p.184.8-186.18

 

 

 

W 12/5

Greek Reading: Barbour p.186.19-p.188.4

 

 

F 12/7

Greek Reading: Barbour p.188.5-p.189.9

 

 

 

 

Week 14: 12/10-12/14

 

M 12/10

English Reading: Hdt. 7.229-239 (p. 495-500); Hdt. 8.36-83 (p. 512-528: Persian attempt to sack Delphi; Evacuation of Athens; Prelude to Salamis); Hdt. 8.98 (p. 533: Description of Persian Courier Service)

Greek Reading: Barbour p.199.16-p.201.26

 

 

W 12/12

Greek Reading: Barbour p.201.26-203.19

Brief Presentations on Papers (just a summary of your topic and what you have found; your should only take a minute or so.

 

F 12/14

Greek Reading: Barbour p.203.20-204.19