CLA4000 - Reading Ancient Greek 12

Leader: Dr Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides

Offered

Clayton First semester 2007 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Guided reading in Ancient Greek. Students are required to read, analyse in grammatical and syntactic terms a variety of Greek texts, and also conduct research on the theoretical debates surrounding Greek literary genres and/or editions of ancient texts.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will:

1. Be able to recognise the key grammatical and syntactic phenomena of Classical Greek.
2. Be able to translate and interpret a variety of authors and literary genres and be aware of the historical/ social circumstances that gave rise to these trends.
3. Be able to appreciate that Greeks wrote to educate and/or manipulate through language the core beliefs of their culture. All languages are culturally conditioned yet Greek authors were very conscious of their effort.
4. will have developed a more holistic theory of the approach they should adopt when studying the Greek culture.

Assessment

Grammar Tests (3000 words) : 35%
Research Essay (3000 words) : 35%
Literature Review (2000 words) : 20%
Oral presentation (Up to 20 minutes (equivalent 1000 words)) : 10%

Contact hours

Two-four hours per week

Prerequisites

Major in Classical Studies