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Greek 441 -- Fall 2001
Purpose of the course: to become more fluent in reading Greek.
Requirements: attend all sessions. Prepare all chapters of the Crito as assigned and be ready to read in class. If you must miss a class, turn in a written translation of the passages read in class that day. Fill in the study guide as we go along. Participate in the class project. Project (see below). We will review as we go along. There will be weekly drills on * vocabulary.
Hints: Use the study guide: go over the review vocabulary. Learn any words that you were not sure of. Go over the new vocabulary and learn the words marked with an asterisk. Read the passage aloud. See how much makes sense. Translate the passage carefully accounting for every word. Do not write down your translation. Make notes of any phrases you had trouble with. Just before class take a few minutes to reread the passage. After class go over whatever we have read in class that day. If we finish early we will do some sight readings.
Suggested Schedule:
Week I 27-30 August Chapter 1 -- review
Week II 4-6 September Chapter 2 -- review
Week III 10-13 September Chapter 3 -- review and quiz on chapters 1-2
Week IV 17-20 September Chapter 4 -- review
Week V 24-27 September Chapter 5 -- review
Week VI 1-4 October Chapter 6 -- review and quiz on chapters 3-5
Week VII 8-11 October Chapter 7 -- review
Week VIII 15-18 October Chapter 8 -- review
Week IX 22-25 October Chapter 9 -- review and quiz on chapters 6-8
Week X 29 October- 1 November Chapter 10 -- review
Week XI 5-8 November Chapter 11-12
Week XII 12-15 November Chapter 12-13 work on projects
Week XIII 26-29 November Chapter 14 -- work on projects
Week XIV 3-6 December Chapter 15 -- review and quiz on Chapters 9-15
Week XV 10-13 December Chapters 16-17 -- TURN IN PROJECTS
Week XVI December 17-21 FINALS WEEK -- Turn in take home final.
Class project: collection of particles, idioms, and useful expressions.
Project: Choose a chapter and write a commentary on it. Work on: particles and style; comment on interesting vocabulary and grammatical constructions; note any interesting facts about Athenian life, politics, laws or history in your chapter. Write a brief summary of your passage in simple Greek (suitable for beginners). You may work with a friend on this project.
Useful Links
The Text in Greek
Web site on Plato and his dialogues by Bernard Suzanne
"It is about time that someone took Crito seriously." John Beversluis
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Greek 441 — Recommended Readings
Four texts on Socrates : Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds / Plato and Aristophanes ; translated with notes by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West ; introduction by Thomas G. West.
Romano Guardini, The death of Socrates; an interpretation of the Platonic dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Tr. by Basil Wrighton.
John Beversluis, Cross-examining Socrates : a defense of the interlocutors in Plato's early dialogues B395.B445 2000
Roslyn Weiss, Socrates Dissatisfied : an analysis of Plato's Crito
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates and Crito, edited with notes by John Burnet. PA4279.A3 1924a
J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles. PA351.D4 1959a
Anthony Douglas Woozley, Law and obedience. The arguments of Plato's Crito. London : Duckworth, 1979.
Thomas C. Brickhouse, and Nicholas D. Smith, Plato's Socrates. New York: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994 . Pp. xiv + 240.
C. Emlyn-Jones: Plato: Crito, Bristol: Bristol Classical Press (1999) Review by V. A. Rodgers, The Classical Review (2001).
T. Penner, "Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many and ‘persuade or obey’" The Classical Quarterly. Vol. 47 (1997): 153-166
R. Polansky, "The unity of Plato's Crito," Scholia. Natal Studies in Classical Antiquity. (Durban). Vol. 6 (1997): 49-67.
Web site on Plato and his dialogues by Bernard Suzanne
The Text in Greek
Useful links:
PERSEUS LSJ ON-LINE (Greek lexicon)
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