Intermediate Ancient Greek: Homer

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Standard

120 hours

Completion of level 3 Ancient Greek or equivalent and admission to fourth year honours or postgraduate diploma in Classics, Classical Studies and Archaeology or Ancient World Studies.

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Students who have passed any of the subjects listed below are not permitted to enrol in this subject:

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In this subject students will translate and discuss the interpretation of Homer's Illiad. In tutorials, further work is undertaken on grammar and syntax. Students will also undertake work in Ancient Greek literary and textual criticism. On completion of this subject, students should have consolidated their skills in working with Ancient Greek texts and have discovered some of the many important contributions which reading the original texts can make to understanding the ancient world.

Students who successfully complete this subject should:

• have read a number of Ancient Greek texts in the original, consolidating their knowledge of grammar and syntax and extending their vocabulary.

• have encountered texts in a variety of styles and genres.

Weekly translations tests, equivalent to 750 words 5% (held each week throughout the semester), weekly tutorial exercises, equivalent to 1250 words 25% (due each week throughout the semester), a 1-hour assessment test, equivalent to 1000 words 25% (held in the middle of the semester), a 1-hour examination, equivalent to 1000 words 25% (held during the examination period) ans an additional research task of 1000 words (or participation in grammar tutorials) 20%.

Hurdle requirements: In order to be eligible for final assessment students must attend 75% of tutorials and complete the assessment test and examination. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 2% per day; after five working days, no late assessment will be marked. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

The coordinator will nominate prescribed texts at the commencement of the semester.

J Morwood, Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary (OUP)

J Morwood, Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (OUP)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• possess critical thinking skills.
• be able to think in theoretic terms.
• be familiar with the communication conventions of another culture.