6 courses in the 1972–73 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
All courses in Greek include prose composition assignments.
A course designed for students beginning the study of Greek or who have not yet reached the level expected in Greek 190. The aim is to attain as rapidly as possible the ability to read simple prose. The emphasis is on forms and structure: reading of connected passages will begin early in the first term. Four lectures. Year course.
Readings in the Fall term centre on the last days of Socrates, with selections from Plato’s account of the trial, self-defence, and execution of the teacher-philosopher. In the Winter term selections from Homer’s Iliad will be read in Greek, and considered in their relation to the epic as a whole. Prerequisite: Grade 13 Greek, Greek 100 or instructor’s permission. Four lectures. Year course.
Selections from Herodotus. Fall term. Not offered in 1972-73.
266* Tragedy
Euripides, Medea and other selections. Winter term. Not offered in 1972-73.
Selections from Thucydides’ history of the struggle between Athens and Sparta. Three lectures. Fall term.
Selections from Lyric and Elegiac Poets. Winter term. Not offered in 1972-73.
375* Drama 1
Selections from Aeschylus. Fall term. Not offered in 1972-73.
Sophocles and Aristophanes. An analysis of the female tragic figure in the Antigone of Sophocles, and of the female comic figure in the Lysistrata of Aristophanes.