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Greek 4b - 2012	Regan L. Barr
The Lukeion Project	Founder and Instructor
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The Lukeion Project

Classical Greek4b

The Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi, Greece

We'll be concentrating on reading undiluted Greek this semester. This class assumes that you have completed your study of Greek grammar using Oxford's Athenaze I and II, or an equivalent text.

Class Format

The goal of a reading course is to do just that: READ GREEK! Nothing will increase your proficiency faster than plowing your way headfirst through some serious Greek texts. So you will prepare texts for translation and discussion prior to the class session. During class we'll discuss the background of the author and may take time to note characteristics and idiosyncrasies of his Greek; but we'll spend our time translating.

I’ve chosen texts that give you a lot of help – not just with vocabulary, but also with some of the more obscure points of grammar. This means that you shouldn’t have to spend a great deal of time in a Greek-English lexicon, and can instead focus on reading Greek. In addition, I'm going to share some resources with you that if used properly, will speed your acquisition of Greek. If abused, however, they'll slow your progress and make you dependent on them. The goal is to learn the text well and to fully understand it using nothing but the Greek itself by the time you get to class.

Course Expectations and Requirements

Attend class on time each week
Prepare the assigned passage; be able to translate the passage and explain the grammar
Complete assigned homework and submit it through Quia on time each week
Take quizzes and exams on time as assigned

Textbooks

Required: Plato's Republic I by Geoffrey Steadman (Self-Published, June 2011)
Optional: An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell and Scott, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 1945) - The standard Greek lexicon if you can't afford the "Great Scott"
Optional: Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California Press, 3rd Printing edition, 1993) - This is the book that I often use as a reference grammar. I find it more detailed than Athenaze, and it's Index and Contents are easier to use.

Class Documents

Fonts

We'll be using the font IFAO-Grec this semester. If you've installed it properly, the two sentences below should match approximately. (The top one is a jpg image, the bottom one is text in the IFAO-Grec Font. The size of the font will probably be different.)