BEGINNING ANCIENT
GREEK LANGUAGE
GRE1130/1131 (section
0534/4613)
Summer 2008
Welcome to ancient
Greek! This
summer intensive course is equivalent to the entire 1st-year ancient
Greek
sequence; students who complete it will be prepared to enter reading
courses.
Prior languague experience will be helpful, but is not assumed.
We will
cover 3-4 fundamental concepts of grammar per week while acquiring
vocabulary along the way, and in a month we will be reading
substantial passages
from original Greek texts. Students should assume at least 3 hours of
study for
every day of class.
instructor
Jim Marks
Department
of Classics Dauer 133
office
hours: daily after class
jmarks@ufl.edu
textbooks
(available
at the University of Florida Bookstore or purchase online)
required
Hardy Hansen and Gerald
Quinn. Greek:
An Intensive Course
2nd revised edition. Fordham University Press. ISBN 0823216632
Coursepack (available
from) (texts
for Summer B)
recommended
Henry Liddell. An
Intermediate
Greek Lexicon.
Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199102066
N. Marinone. All
Greek Verbs.
Duckworth Press. ISBN 0715617729
Herbert Smyth. Greek
Grammar.
Harvard University Press. ISBN
0674362500
evaluation
students
will be evaluted on the basis of daily quizzes, weekly exams, and a
final:
|
SUMMER A |
|
|
quizzes (3-4 per week) |
3% each = 60% of final
grade |
|
exams |
10% each = 40% |
|
SUMMER B |
|
|
quizzes (3-4 per week) |
3% each = 60% of final
grade |
|
exams |
10% each = 40% |
PLEASE NOTE: the
accelerated pace of the class and
cumulative nature of the material demand daily attendance.
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This course is
conducted in
compliance with all University of Florida policies regarding special
needs,
academic honesty, and absences for emergencies, religious holidays and
extracurricular activities. For details, see www.dso.ufl.edu/osd/
(special needs);
www.dso.ufl.edu/judicial/procedures/academicguide.php#3
(academic honesty).
some internet
resources for ancient Greek:
general
http://web.classics.ufl.edu/links.html
language tutorials
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/classics/mathos/
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ancient_greek_start.html
ancient Greek-English
dictionary
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0007
English-ancient Greek
dictionary
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=greek
ancient Greek texts
(transliterated)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform