Unit name | Greek Language Level C1 |
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Unit code | CLAS22405 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Patrick Finglass |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
CLAS22316 or equivalent |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Classics & Ancient History |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit aims to extend and further develop skills of independent reading and interpretation of texts in Greek. The texts covered will constitute a representative sample of texts from 2-4 authors, amounting to 700-900 lines. These texts will be studied from the perspective of their generic, thematic or historical inter-relations, as evidenced by close reading of texts, and by consideration of commentaries and secondary literature. Authors covered may include Apollonius, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Homer and the Homeric Hymns, a Hellenistic anthology, Herodotus, Plutarch, Sophocles, or Thucydides.
On successful completion of this unit students should have:
1 x 2 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour seminar
1 essay of 2,500 words and 1 examination of one and a half hours, consisting of a passage of 10-12 lines for unseen translation (30% of exam mark) with passage summary, a passage of 10-12 lines for prepared text translation (30% of exam mark), and a passage of 20 lines with specific questions for comment (40% of exam mark). No choice of questions will be offered and no reference texts or dictionaries will be allowed in this exam.
Reading and References
M. Silk, ‘The Odyssey and its explorations’, in R. Fowler, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge 2004)
P. E. Easterling, ‘A show for Dionysus’, and ‘Form and performance’, in P. Easterling, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge 1997)
D. Konstan, ‘An anthropology of Euripides’ Kyklops’, in J. Winkler, F. Zeitlin, eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in its Social Context (Princeton 1990)
Set Texts:
Homer, Odyssey 9 and Euripides, Cyclops (c. 450 lines of each text to be read in Greek, and the rest in English).