Daily attendance is absolutely essential for success in this course. GK 506 may be used as an elective, an Area D requirement, or in partial fulfillment of the foreign language requirement. The course is an introduction to reading Ancient Greek. Students will learn enough basic grammar and vocabulary to begin reading a variety of classical and Hellenistic authors. Come discover what Homer and St. Paul really said.
Regular attendance is essential to successful progress.
The course can be used as an elective, and Area D requirement, or in partial fulfillment of the foreign language requirement. In this we shall read and study and appreciate a selection of readings from the prose masters Plato and Lysias. Emphasis will be upon grammar as well as stylistics. We will also seek to understand, through comparing the works of these two authors, how the spoken word of rhetoric and poetry contributed to the Greek conception of the power of speech. We shall read the Gospel of Mark, the most straightforward of the New Testament writings.