Greek 1331.3331.syllabus

Some of your questions about the course:

What do I need? How will I learn Greek?

LESSONS

TOPICS

INTRODUCTION
PART I: week of 8/24

read, don't memorize!

Intr 0.1.1 The Greek language: classical and Biblical Greek
Intr 0.1.2 Method of this course. Forms and functions in language. Morphology, Syntax.
Intr 0.1.3 Review of the basics of English grammar. Examples of syntactical analysis in English.

Intr 0.1.4 English syntax: a rehearsal

Intr 0.1.5 Syntactic analysis of a passage in English translated from Plato.

INTRODUCTION
PART II: week of 8/31

goal: learn to read Greek aloud.

danger: giving English names to Greek letters!

read, don't memorize!

Intr 0.2.1 The Greek alphabet

Intr 0.2.2 Pronunciation. Chart of consonantal sounds

Practice reading (vowels Practice reading consonants

Read Greek a (words beginning with vowels)

Read Greek b (words beginning with consonants)

Read Greek c (words beginning with diphthongs)

Intr 0.2.3 Comparative chart of English and Greek parts of speech

LESSON 1: week of 9/8

1.1 The behavior of Greek nouns. Nominative case
1.2a The behavior of Greek verbs. Transitive verbs with a direct object in the Accusative case.

1.2b Present Indicative and Infinitive
1.3 Adding adjectives

1.4 Summary of Lesson 1

1.5 Punctuation

LESSON 2: week of 9/14

2.1   Whose? Of what? Genitive case
2.2   To or for whom? Dative case
2.3   Direct address: Vocative case of nouns. Imperative mood of verbs.

2.4 Chart of the declension of masculine nouns

LESSON 3: weeks of 9/21

and 9/28

3.1   Moods of the verb: Indicative and Imperative. Verb infinitives.
3.2   Tenses: Present and Future (verbs with vowel and dental stems)
3.3   Dissecting verbs: stems and "endings"

3.4 Second Declension: masculine and neuter nouns

3.5 Chart of the declension of masculines and neuters

TEST 1 (Lessons 1-3) Saturday, 10/3, 10:00-1:00pm, 425 AH, with oral component

LESSON 4: week of 10/5

4.1     Stem and endings in the second declension.
4.2   First declension nouns in -η and pure -α
4.3a   Adjectives of the first and second declensions ( = “Type 1”)

4.3b Declension of adjectives
4.4 Prepositional phrases

4.5 Graphic of prepositional phrases

LESSON 5: week of 10/12

5.1a Future of verbs with labial stems

5.1b  Future of verbs with palatal stems
5.2   Masculine nouns of the first declension in -ης and -ας.
5.3   Alpha “pure” and “impure.”   "Type 1" adjectives in -ος -η -ον and -ος -α -ον
5.4   Genitive of separation. Dative of means. Dative of place/time.

5.5 A tip on accents (optional)

LESSON 6: week of 10/19

6.1 Nouns and adjectives: agreement. Attributive and predicative positions of noun modifiers
6.2a Imperfect tense
6.2b Augment

6.3 Nuts and bolts: adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, particles.

TEST 2 (Lessons 1-6) Saturday, October 24, 10:00-1:00pm, 619 AH, with oral component

LESSON 7: week of 10/26

7.1a Verb to be: Present Indicative and Imperative. To be as linking and intransitive.
7.1b Articular Infinitive

7.2 Future Indicative and Imperfect of to be
7.3 General introduction to accents

7.4 Where to put the accent?

7.5 Predicate accusatives

LESSON 8: weeks of 11/2 and 11/9

8.1 The concept of Voice. Active and Passive voices in English
8.2a Middle-Passive Indicative endings (primary and historical or secondary).

8.2b Complement of the agent and dative of means.
8.3 Overview of the Middle Voice
8.4a Middle-Passive Imperative.

8.4b Deponent verbs: γί(γ)νομαι, ἔρχομαι

8.5 How to translate middle, passive, deponent verbs: tips

8.6 Alternative (late) forms of active imperative and tips

LESSON 9: will be studied in the second semester

9.1 Interrogatives. Declension of τίς, τί. Other interrogatives.

9.2a Personal pronouns of the 1st and 2nd persons.

9.2b αὐτός as personal pronoun of the 3rd person
9.3 Verbal aspect again: punctual aspect. Formation of the first aorist.
9.4 Adding the Aorist to the chart of the Greek verb.