Intensive introduction to Classical Greek morphology and syntax. This course includes exercises in grammar, Greek composition, and translation from Greek to English.  Emphasis is placed upon developing the ability to read Greek with facility.

This course is for those who have completed ancient Greek102 or equivalent. You are now ready to begin reading real Greek! We will read a selection of passages from Greek prose authors, focusing on language and style. There will be regular quizzes. The course will include some grammar review.

We will read two contemporary works that consider the question of revenge in the context of the Peloponnesian War: Euripides' Hecuba and the debates in Book 3 of Thucydides' History.

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For graduate students in other departments needing individualized study in Greek literature.

A selective survey of ancient Greek prose writing with attention to the social and intellectual contexts in which literary prose arose and developed, to the different prose genres, and to the kinds of authority claimed by prose in contrast to poetry.

This graduate seminar will introduce students to all of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays, as well as to the rich body of fragmentary comic poets of classical Athens (such as Cratinus and Eupolis). We will survey the various critical approaches to Old Comedy--historical, literary, performative-- and the special problems that arise with comic and satirical texts. 

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For doctoral candidates.