Unit name | Greek Language Level B1 |
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Unit code | CLAS12315 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Laura Jansen |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Classics & Ancient History |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The Greek orator Lysias was renowned in antiquity for beguiling audiences with the apparent artlessness of his prose. This combination—of relatively easy Greek and highly sophisticated rhetoric—makes Lysias an ideal author for study at B1 level. In this unit, we’ll study Lysias’ speech On the Murder of Erasothenes, in which a cuckolded husband who has killed his wife’s lover defends himself against the charge of murder.
Unit aims:
To introduce students to ancient rhetoric and the work of Lysias in particular
2 x 2-hour language seminar weekly
Liddell, H. G. and R. Scott. 1963. Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford.
Morwood, J. 2001. Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, Oxford.
Carey, C. 2008. Lysias: Selected Speeches (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
The following is for use throughout B1 and B2:
Morwood, J. and Anderson, S. 2014. A Little Greek Reader. Oxford