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| Week 1 | In-Class | At home |
| Day 1 |
Indirect Statement Reading: Pausanias 1.44.7-8 |
Homework: decline ho bomos "altar", and to hieron; conjugate
grapho, aisthanomai, didomi, and haireo in the present and future; memorize the verbs with unusual futures on pp. 159-60 and 167, Athenaze, Book I. Review Indirect Statement (Oxford Grammar 154-58) and identify the indirect statements in Paus. 1.44.9-10. |
| Day 2 |
Accusative Case (Cameron and Phil);
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1st declension; Homework: conjugate the same verbs in the imperfect and aorist;
decline he arche, he thalassa, and ho stratiotes
"soldier"; decline houtos "this"; Practice Sentences 1-3, 7-9, 12 (Grammar, p. 126). re-learn the 2nd aorist verbs listed on pp. 181 and 189, Athenaze, Book I. |
| Day 3 |
Vocabulary Quiz on 50% list Genitive case (Danny and Jesse); Reading: |
3rd declension; Homework: decline he polis, ho basileus, to agalma; do a synopsis of teleutao and metecho in the 3rd sg act; |
| Day 4 |
Dative case (Rachel and Jeff); Reading: Pausanias 2.2.1-7 |
aorist and future passive (17.1-3) Homework: conjugate erao in the future and aor passive; in Paus. 2.3.1-3, find each participle, identify the word it modifies, and say what tense and voice; prepare for quiz (synopsis, vocabulary items 1-130, grammar in a passage); skim Pausanias |
| Day 5 |
Quiz; Reading: Pausanias |
Homework: review topics that still give you trouble; write composition; prepare seminar report |
| Day 6 |
revising compositions
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didomi and tithemi Homework: conjugate didomi and tithemi in the present and aorist; decide what topic you would like to do for your vocabulary presentation Reading: Pausanias 1.1.1-2, 1.2.1-2, 4 (skim the rest of ch 2) |
| Day 7 |
AM: seminar presentations PM: Reading: Pausanias 1.1-1.2 (Sounion, Peiraeus, and the road to Athens, city walls and gate) |
histemi and hiemi Homework: Conjugate kathistemi and aphiemi in the
present and aorist; re-read the text we covered in class; work on your vocabulary presentation: |
| Day 8 |
AM: -mi verbs; PM: Pausanias 1.3, 1.5.1 (the west side of the Athenian agora)
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Homework: do a synopsis of aphiemi in the 3rd pl active; review grammar topics that still give you trouble; re-read the text we covered in class; work on your vocabulary presentation: Reading Pausanias: 1.15 (the Stoa Poikile), 1.26.5-7 (the Erechtheum) |
| Day 9 |
Vocabulary presentations sequence of moods; Reading: Pausanias 1.15 (the Stoa Poikile), 1.26.5-7 (the Erechtheum) |
To prepare for the midterm:
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| Day 10 |
Midterm |
Homework: write composition (feel free to include images from Perseus, etc.) Reading: Pausanias on the road to Delphi and the (mythological) history of the sanctuary |
| Day 11 |
AM: revising compositions PM: Reading Pausanias 10.5 (skim sections 6, 10, 12) (the road to Delphi, Oedipus and Laius, genealogy of the divinities in charge of the sanctuary, the temples of Apollo) |
Homework: revise composition; begin reading articles for seminar Reading: Pausanias on interstate rivalry and competing monuments |
| Day 12 |
Reading: Pausanias 10.9.1-10.5 (competing monuments at the entrance to the peribolos of Apollo) |
Homework: finish researching your two monuments, noting the date and background of the monument; revise your exam Reading: Pausanias on the oracle |
| Day 13 |
Reading: Pausanias 10.12.1-7 (Sibyls); 13.7-8 (Heracles and Apollo arguing over the tripod); 13.9 (Plataea);
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Homework: work on presentations for Friday Reading: |
| Day 14 |
Reading: 14.5-6 (Themistocles offering of the Persian spoils); 14.7 (bronze wolf); 15.2-3 (Celtic invasion); 15.4-5 (Athenians at Eurymedon); 16.1-2 (bowl of Alyattes); 16.3 (omphalos); 25 (Ilioupersis) |
Common reading (in English): Strabo Geography 8.6.20-23; Pausanias 10.25-27; Italy on the Grand Tour (Getty) Continue preparing your presentation |
| Day 15 |
PM: Seminar Day |
Homework: write your 3rd and final composition; reread what we have read from Pausanias Book 10; review notes from the seminar in preparation for going to the University of Iowa |
| Day 16 | AM/PM: visit to special collections at the University of Iowa to see early printed editions of Pausanias and early travelers' accounts of Greece
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Homework: revise your composition; complete Pausanias 10.25-27 (the Ilioupersis); Please prepare a portfolio of your writing this term, including both rough and final drafts. In addition, please write a 1-2 page commentary on your writing in English.. What challenges did you meet and how did you attempt to overcome them? What do you feel you still need to work on as a writer? What do you wish you could have done different? How has writing improved in terms of endings, vocabulary, and syntax? How has writing helped you understand the art, archaeology, history, or myth of the Greek world? How has writing helped you improve your understanding of Pausanias' Greek? |
| Day 17 |
PM: Pausanias 10.26-27 (the finale of the Ilioupersis) |
Homework: continue working on your writing portfolio; review and study for the final exam
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| Day 18 |
Final Exam; |
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