Classical Studies
GRE 1-334-2007

Ancient Greek Society, Politics, and Culture


Daily Schedule

 

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Numbers in parentheses after grammar topics refer to the chapter and section of Athenaze in which the topic is discussed.

Week 1 In-Class At home
Day 1

Indirect Statement

Reading: Pausanias 1.44.7-8


2nd declension;
personal and reflexive pronouns (5.6-8; 7.4);
present and future tenses (10.1-4),
active or middle, indicative, subjunctive, and optative, regular and contract verbs

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.
Read Pausanias 1.44.8-10, 2.1.2-4 (from Megara to Isthmia)

Day 2

Accusative Case (Cameron and Phil);
Expressions of time, place, and space;
uses of the definite article (9.6; 23.5);
uses of autos (5.9) (Cameron and Phil)

Reading: Pausanias 2.1.1 1.44.8-10-2.1.3 (the destruction and re-founding of Corinth)


1st declension;
demonstratives (deictic pronouns)(14.5);
imperfect and aorist tenses,
active and middle (11-12)

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.
Reading: Pausanias 2.1.4-9 (Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia)

Day 3

Vocabulary Quiz on 50% list

Genitive case (Danny and Jesse);
Direct and Indirect questions (Rachel and Jeff);
Relative Clauses (13.3; 23.6) (Danny and Jesse)

Reading:

3rd declension;
interrogative (7.8; 14.6), indefinite (7.9; 14.6), and relative pronouns (13.3);
perfect and pluperfect tenses (27-28)

Homework: decline he polis, ho basileus, to agalma; do a synopsis of teleutao and metecho in the 3rd sg act;
Read Pausanias

Day 4

Dative case (Rachel and Jeff);
Time clauses/because clauses;
Uses of the participle;

Reading: Pausanias 2.2.1-7

aorist and future passive (17.1-3)
optative mood (25.1-4)

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

 

 


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:
religious vocabulary (Rachel and Cameron)
geographical and topographical features (Phil and Danny)

Reading: Pausanias 1.3, 1.5.1

Day 8

AM: -mi verbs;
Vocabulary presentations

PM: Pausanias 1.3, 1.5.1 (the west side of the Athenian agora)

 

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:
place/location (Jesse and Jeff)

Reading Pausanias: 1.15 (the Stoa Poikile), 1.26.5-7 (the Erechtheum)

Day 9

Vocabulary presentations

sequence of moods;
summary of uses of the subjunctive and optative, both main and subordinate clauses: purpose, fearing, indefinite clauses, conditions referring to the future; uses of hos;
negatives (Supplementary Ex 7)

Reading: Pausanias 1.15 (the Stoa Poikile), 1.26.5-7 (the Erechtheum)

To prepare for the midterm:
Review all principal parts of fero, erchomai, baino, and tatto;
Review uses of the article and the relative pronoun;
Practice recognizing participial phrases and indirect statement;
Review vocabulary presentations;
Review the passages we have read, in English and Greek

 

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);

 

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

 

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

 

Day 18

Final Exam;
Portfolio due

 

 


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Ancient Greek Society, Politics, and Culture

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