Classical Greek 5: focus on grammar

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    Course

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    London

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The course aims to improve your fluency in reading Classical Greek by translating the last book of the Iliad and Book VI of Herodotus’ Histories. You will also improve your knowledge of the grammar by examining short texts focused on specific rules.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- translate Homer’s Iliad, Book XXIV and appreciate its themes, language and style;- translate Herodotus’ Histories, Book VI and appreciate its themes, language and style;- recognise and understand grammatical structures with confidence.

- Any edition of Iliad, Book XXIV.- Any edition of Herodotus’ Histories, Book VI. Recent editions: by Simon Hornblower and Christopher Pelling (Cambridge University Press, 2017); or by E. I. McQueen (BCP 2013)- A Little Greek Reader, eds Morwood and Anderson (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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  • Greek
  • Grammar

Course programme

We will finish reading Book XXIV of the Iliad, begun in the previous term (please check with the tutor through the Classical Languages and Civilisations Department for the exact point to start at). Subsequently, we will move on to Book VI of Herodotus’ Histories. There will also be some grammar through the book A Little Greek Reader (see details below).


Whole class work; tutor posing questions and answering questions raised by the students. Part of the lesson will be devoted to the revision of the grammar through A Little Greek Reader, part to the translation of Thucydides’ work (frist part of the term)/Aeschylus' play (second part). Students will be asked to prepare grammar exercises and selected passages for each class. Homework: about 3-4 hours per week.

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Classical Greek 5: focus on grammar in Term 3.

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