GREEK 103 A: Introductory Greek

Summer 2024 B-term
Meeting:
MTWThF 9:30am - 11:40am
SLN:
11585
Section Type:
Lecture
Instructor:
PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SEQUENCE
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

Welcome to Greek 103!

Course materials will be organized under Modules.

 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

-read and translate selections from ancient Greek authors and compose simple sentences in Greek.

-understand and explain literary, historical, and cultural context of ancient Greek texts

-analyze and explain ancient Greek grammar and syntax

-analyze and explain ancient Greek鈥檚 influence on and connection to other languages and literatures

By the end of the sequence (Greek 101, 102, 103 or Greek 300, Greek 103) you equip yourself to read any Greek author. In our second-year courses (Greek 304, 305, 306, 307) students read selections of Xenophon (306), Plato (307), Homer (307), and biblical texts (304).

This class will be held online in synchronous format. It is the 2nd course in a series of 2 continuing on from GREEK 300.

 

Required textbooks:

Anne Groton, From Alpha to Omega (4th ed.)

Anne Groton and James May, 46 Stories in Classical Greek

Course Schedule

Week 1

Thursday July 18

  • 螒惟Lesson 27: Aorist Passive and review of verbs
  • In-class: Synopsis of 蟺伪喂未蔚蠉蠅

Friday July 19

  • Homework: Lesson 27 GtE (1, 2, 10) and EtG (1)
  • 螒惟 Lesson 28: Future Passive Tense; Future Perfect Active, etc.; 慰峒段次
  • Assessment 1 due Saturday by 5pm

Week 2

Monday July 22

  • Homework: Lesson 28 GtE (1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10) and EtG (2)
  • 螒惟Lesson 29: Third Declension: Vowel Stems and Syncopated Stems

Tuesday July 23

  • Homework: Lesson 29 GtE (1, 3, 5, 7鈥9) and EtG (2)
  • 螒惟Lesson 30: Deponent Verbs; Genitive Absolute; 蔚峒断, 慰峤愇次滴/渭畏未蔚委蟼

Wednesday July 24

  • Homework: Lesson 30 GtE(1鈥3, 5, 6, 9) and EtG (3)
  • 螒惟Lessons 31 & 32: Adverbs, Result Clauses; Comparatives and Superlatives

Thursday July 25

  • Homework: Lesson 31 GtE(5, 7, 8 10) and Lesson 32 GtE (3, 5, 6)
  • 螒惟Lessons 33 & 34: Irregular Comparatives, Degree of Difference; Numerals

Friday July 26

  • Homework: Lesson 33 GtE(2, 3, 5, 6) and Lesson 34 GtE (3, 6, 9)
  • 螒惟Lesson 35: Subjunctive Mood
  • Assessment 2 due by Saturday July 29 at 5pm

Week 3

Monday July 29

  • Homework: Lesson 35 GtE (1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10) and EtG (2)
  • 螒惟Lesson 36: Optative Mood

 

Tuesday July 30

  • Homework: Lesson 36 GtE (1, 4鈥9) and EtG (1)
  • 螒惟Lesson 37: Conditions

Wednesday July 31

  • Homework: Lesson 37 GtE(1鈥3, 5, 9鈥10) and EtG (3)
  • 螒惟Lessons 38: Conditional Relative Clauses

Thursday August 1

  • Homework: Lesson 38 GtE(3鈥5, 6, 8, 10) and EtG (2)
  • 螒惟Lesson 39: Purpose Clauses

Friday August 2

  • Homework: Lesson 39 GtE(1, 5, 6, 8鈥10) and EtG (1)
  • 螒惟 Lesson 40: 蔚峒段嘉; Indirect Discourse (峤呄勎/峤∠) 
  • Assessment 3 due Saturday by 5pm

Week 4

Monday August 5

  • Homework: Lesson 40 GtE (3, 4, 6, 8鈥10) and EtG (1)
  • 螒惟Lesson 41: 蠁畏渭委; Indirect Discourse (Infinitive); 螒惟 Lessons 42: Indirect Discourse (with participle); Crasis; 

Tuesday August 6

  • Homework: Lesson 41 GtE (2鈥5, 8, 10) and EtG (2); Lesson 42 GtE(1, 2, 4, 6鈥8) and EtG (4)
  • 螒惟&苍产蝉辫;Lessons 43+44More Uses of the Infinitive; 蟺蟻委谓; Verbal Adjectives

Wednesday August 7

  • Homework: Lesson 43 GtE (1, 2, 5, 6, 9) and Lesson 44 GtE (2, 4, 6)
  • 螒惟Lesson 45: Clauses of Effort and Fear; 螒惟 Lesson 46: -渭喂 verbs (未委未蠅渭喂, 峒迪兿勎肺嘉)

Thursday August 8 (Asynchronous)

  • Homework: Lesson 45 GtE (1, 4鈥6, 8, 10) and EtG (4); Lesson 46 GtE(2鈥5, 8, 9) and EtG (4)
  • 螒惟Lessons 47: -渭喂 verbs (蟿委胃畏渭喂, 峒滴肺嘉)

 

Friday August 9

  • Class cancelled: break to practice -mi verbs
  • Homework: Submit a synopsis of 未委未蠅渭喂 in the 2nd singular
  • Assessment 4 due Saturday by 5pm

 

Week 5

Monday August 12

  • 螒惟48 + 49: Impossible Wishes; 尾伪委谓蠅, 纬喂纬谓蠋蟽魏蠅; Directional Suffixes; Accusative of Respect

Tuesday August 13

  • Homework: Lesson 48 GtE(2, 8, 10) and EtG (2); Lesson 49 GtE (1鈥5, 7, 8) and EtG (3)
  • 螒惟Lesson 50: Redundant 渭萎; Uses of 渭峤 慰峤 and 慰峤 渭萎; Attraction of Relative Pronoun

Wednesday August 14

  • Homework: Lesson 50 GtE(1鈥5, 7, 9, 10)
  • Lesson: Homer + Morphology

Thursday August 15

  • Homer

Friday August 16

  • Homer

 

Catalog Description:
Reading of selections from classical Greek literature. Third in a sequence of three. Prerequisite: GREEK 102 or GREEK 300. Offered: SpS.
GE Requirements Met:
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
April 17, 2026 - 2:44 am