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Prof. Alex Hollmann (hollmann@uw.edu)

THO 211 M-F 1.30-2.20

Office hours: W 12-1 now W 3-4pm (in person at Denny Mezzanine 262E or by Zoom) or by appt

Welcome to Greek 103! Students joining this course will typically have taken Greek 101 and 102 (or the equivalent thereof) or will have completed the accelerated course, Greek 300.

We continue working through Anne Groton's From Alpha to Omega, resuming at Lesson 35

First year Ancient Greek courses give you direct access to the thoughts and writings of the ancient Greeks and allow you to explore the dynamic and often dangerous cultural, social and political world in which they wrote. Learning to interpret and use an ancient language requires you to explore unknown areas and think in new ways. Our focus is on Greek as a literary language. Course activities are designed to foster a collegial and collaborative atmosphere and to encourage you to make strong connections between the ancient language and literature we are exploring together and your other interests, passions and pursuits.

 Course Goals:

Through your work in the course you will demonstrate that you can: 

• Read and translate selections from ancient Greek authors and compose simple sentences in Greek.
• Understand and explain the literary, historical and cultural context of texts by ancient Greek authors
• Analyze and explain Greek grammar and syntax
• Analyze and describe the influence of the Greek language on subsequent languages and literatures

By completing the first year sequence through 103 you equip yourself to read any Greek author. In our second year courses (304, 305, 306, 307) students read selections of Xenophon (305), Plato (306), and Homer (307), and other authors (304).

Textbook

Lessons 35–50 of From Alpha to Omega, Anne H. Groton (4th ed.). You will also need 46 Stories in Classical Greek, Anne H. Groton, James M. May. You may also find Jon Bruss, From Alpha to Omega: Ancillary Exercises. 2nd ed useful for extra practice.

Course Grade Components 

Homework (online submission)       30%

Quizzes (Fridays of Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8) online submission) 40%

Final assessment  (cumulative, online submission) 20%

Participation 10%

Chart used to convert percentages to GPA

Course remarks

-Reading and Homework is due on the day assigned, e.g. “Th Jan. 7 HW: p. 121 Gr.-Eng. 1-5, Eng.-Gr. 5. Read p. 122 “Chat with a Cat” means you should come to class on Th. Jan. 7 having completed to the best of your ability the specified exercises on p. 121 and having read to the best of your ability the reading on p. 122.

-If you are required to submit any of this work, this will also be specified and an assignment link given with a due date.

Schedule (will be updated as needed)

Week 1: Lesson 35: Subjunctive. Lesson 36: Optative

M March 25 Read pp. 243–248. Powerpoint

T March 26 HW: p. 249 1,3,4,5,7,8,10. Submit

W March 27 Prepare p. 250 “The Athenians Go Too Far—Part 2”

Th March 28 Read pp.253–259. Powerpoint

F March 29 Prepare p. 261 “The Athenians Go Too Far—Part 3”. We also looked at .

Week 2: Lesson 36 continued. Lesson 37: Conditions

M April 1 HW: p. 260 1,3,4,6, E to G 1,2. Submit

T April 2 Read pp. 263–265. Powerpoint

W April 3 HW: p. 267 1,3,5,7,9,10. Submit

Th April 4 We will read "Doing His Best to Be a Pest" in 46 Stories, p. 66.

F April 5 1^st quiz . No class

Week 3: Lesson 38: Conditional relative clauses; relative adverbs. Lesson 39: Purpose clauses

M April 8 Read pp. 271–274 Powerpoint

T April 9 HW: pp. 275–6 1–6, 8. E to G 4. Submit

W April 10 Read pp. 279–281 Powerpoint

Th April 11 HW p. 282 1,2,5,6,8,10. E to G 1. Submit

F April 12 Prepare reading: p. 284 "Justifiable Homicide" Part 1. 

Week 4 Lesson 40: εἶμι; indirect discourse with ὅτι ὡς. Lesson 41: φημί; indirect discourse with infinitive

M April 15 Read pp. 285–290 Powerpoint

T April 16 HW p. 291 1,2,5,9,10 E to G 3 (just translate verbs if you like). Submit

W April 17 Read pp. 295–299 Powerpoint

Th April 18 HW 1,2,7,10. Submit . Prepare reading: p. 292 "Justifiable Homicide" Part 2

F April 19 2^nd quiz . No class

Week 5 Lesson 42: Indirect discourse with participle; crasis. Lesson 43: More uses of infinitive; πρίν

M April 22 Read pp. 303–308 Powerpoint

T April 23 HW pp. 308–309 1,3,4,5,6,8,9. Submit

W April 24 Read pp. 313–317 Powerpoint

Th April 25 HW pp. 317–318 1–3,5-7,9. Submit

F April 26 Prepare reading "Laws Worth Listening To", p. 74 in 46 Stories in Classical Greek. We may also read NT (healing of epileptic)

Week 6 Lesson 44: Verbal adjectives in -τέος, -τός. Lesson 45: Clauses of effort and fear

M April 29 Read pp. 321–326. Powerpoint

T April 30 HW p. 326 1,2,4,6,9,10;  E to G 2 (just verbs if you like). Submit

W May 1 Read pp. 329–332. Powerpoint

Th May 2 HW p. 333 1,2,5,6,8 Submit

We will look at breastfeeding in Plato, Republic 462c-d and examples of clause of effort:

F May 3 3^rd quiz . No class

Week 7 Lesson 46: μι verbs (δίδωμι, ἵστημι). Lesson 47: μι verbs (τίθημι, ἵημι)

M May 6 Read pp. 337–342 Powerpoint

T May 7 HW p. 343 1,3,6,7,8,9,10 Submit

W May 8 Read pp. 347–352 Powerpoint

Th May 9 HW pp. 351–2 1,2,4,5,6,7,9 Submit

(we may also look at this )

F May 10 Prepare reading on p. 344 "The Perfect Polis? — Part 1". If you can, try to prepare reading on p.352 "The Perfect Polis? — Part 2"

Week 8 Lesson 48: μι verbs (δείκνυμι); unattainable wishes. Lesson 49: βαίνω, γιγνώσκω; directional suffixes; acc. of respect

M May 13 Read pp. 355–358. Powerpoint

T May 14 Prof. Hollmann has to attend meeting and so cannot be present for class. But you can still meet and review HW: p. 359  1–6, 8–10. Submit

W May 15 Read pp. 363–366. Powerpoint

Th May 16 HW: p.366f.  1–4, 6–9. Submit

[Some we may look at together  (Iliad 22 and Matthew 6)]

F May 17 4^th quiz . No class

Week 9 Lesson 50: Redundant μή; uses of μὴ οὐ and οὐ μή; attraction of relative pronoun. Review

M May 20 Read pp. 371–375. Powerpoint

T May 21 HW p. 375 2–5, 8–10. Submit

W May 22 Accents: placement. [Read §15, pp. 10–11 on how to determine whether a syllable is long or short]. Review of 3rd declension nouns [reread Lessons 16 and 17]. Powerpoint

Accents: types of accent [Read §14, p. 10 and "Two General Principles of Accenting", p.11]. Review of 3rd declension nouns cont'd [reread Lesson 29] Powerpoint

Th May 23: NO CLASS: Professor Hollmann has to attend lecture

F May 24 Reading: Luke 20 Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's Text Vocab

Week 10 Activities: Reading and Review

M May 27 Memorial Day: NO CLASS

T May 28 Read "Why the Wait?" (Plato, Phaedo 57a-58c) = p. 90 in 46 Stories in Classical Greek

W May 29 Continue reading "Why the Wait?"

Th May 30 We will read together (speech of Paul to Athenians). Vocab. (distributed on paper in class too)

F May 31 Continue Acts 17:17–34. We may read a few .

Week 11

T June 4 8.00 am

F June 7 5.00 pm Final assessment due. All outstanding HW to be submitted by same date and time.