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Course Description

Academic Year 2007-2008 • Grade 10 and above • Greek Sequence

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Greek IV

Sections and Teachers

Section 1:

Instructor: Bruce McMenomy

Starts: September 6, 2007
Ends: May 30, 2008

Thursday 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM ET • Friday 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM ET

Tuition: $450.00

Homeric Greek: an introduction to the Homeric dialect, with prosodic analysis and a reading load approximately equivalent to that of the AP Latin (Vergil) course. We read selected passages from Homer's Odyssey, including several books in their entirety, and discuss morphological and syntactic variations from Attic Greek.

Prerequisites

Greek III or equivalent. If not Greek III, please contact the instructor for evaluation and permission to enroll.

Recommended background

The course presupposes no prior acquaintance with the Homeric dialect, but substantial fluency in Attic Greek.

Textbooks and Materials

This item is required:

Greek Grammar , Authors: Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing

ISBN: 0674362500

Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore


This item is required:

Homer: Odyssey I-XII , Authors: Homer, W. B. Stanford

ISBN: 1853995029

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This item is required:

Homeric Vocabularies: Greek and English Word List for the Study of Homer , Authors: William B. Owen, Edgar J. Goodspeed

ISBN: 0806108282

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This item is required:

Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect , Authors: Richard J. Cunliffe

ISBN: 0806114304

Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore

Other information: This lexicon or Autenrieth's is required.


This item is recommended but not required and its use is optional:

Homeric Dictionary , Authors: Georg Autenrieth

ISBN: 0715617737

Best sources: Scholars Online Bookstore

Other information: An alternative to Cunliffe's Homeric Lexicon. One or the other is required.


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