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Harvard - Advanced Greek Prose Composition

Composition in the prose style of various authors and genres, with selected readings representing the development of Greek prose and its analysis by scholars, ancient and modern.
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Harvard - Attic Comedy

An introduction to the conventions of Old and New Comedy with emphasis on genre, performance and Athenian society. Close readings of Aristophanes' Clouds and Menander's Samia.
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Harvard - Attic Orators

Athenian speeches honoring the city's fallen warriors, read against their historical and cultural background, with emphasis on Attic syntax and on the conventions of encomiastic prose style. The selection includes the logoi epitaphioi ascribed to Lysias, Demosthenes and Hypereides, as well as Perikles' funeral oration as reported by Thukydides.
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Harvard - Beginning Greek

For students with very little or no previous instruction in Greek. Introduction to Greek grammar and reading of sentences and short passages.
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Harvard - Beginning Greek

Continuation of Greek Aa. Completion of basic grammar and reading of longer passages.
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Harvard - Beginning Greek (Intensive)

For students with little or no previous instruction in Greek who are seriously interested in making very rapid progress. All basic grammar of the normal first-year sequence (Greek Aa and Ab) and practice in reading prose. Students are prepared for Greek Ba or Bb.
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Harvard - History of Greek Literature I

A survey of early Greek poetry and prose, with readings from Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, lyric poetry, and Herodotus. Discussions of genre in relation to performance, historical contexts, thematic (dis)continuities, oral tradition.
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Harvard - History of Greek Literature II

A genre-oriented exploration of the poetry and prose produced in classical Athens, including drama, non-dramatic poetry, political and forensic speech-writing, historiography, and philosophical prose. The principal focus will be on the interrelationship between the various genres and the societal and cultural institutions that shaped them. Key concepts are occasion and performance, orality and literacy, as well as author and audience.
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Harvard - Introduction to Attic Prose

A bridge between the study of Greek grammar and the reading of prose authors; intended to develop reading and translation skills and introduce prose styles.
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Harvard - Introduction to Late Antique and Mediaeval/Byzantine Poetry

Greek poetry from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Readings will correspond to interests of participants. Review of grammar, syntax, and linguistic developments in post-classical Greek.
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Harvard - Introductory Greek Prose Composition

Practice in the translation of sentences and connected prose passages into Attic Greek; review of forms and syntax; readings of selections from prose authors.
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Harvard - Plato, Symposium

Close reading of Plato's Symposium focusing on literary aspects of the work.
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Harvard - Reading Greek

Readings of Greek prose and poetry ranging from archaic to imperial, with emphasis on variety, quantity, and quick comprehension of syntactic, stylistic, and generic features.
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Harvard - Review and Reading

For students with more than one year of formal training in Greek who do not place into Greek Ba. The course will combine a review of morphology and syntax with readings from prose authors. Students are prepared for Greek Bb or Ba.
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Harvard - Selections from Homer's Iliad

An introduction to Homeric poetry: language, meter, formulae, and type scenes.
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Harvard - The Language of Homer

Essentials of Greek comparative and historical grammar, and a close reading of Iliad 1 and 3. Diachronic aspects of Homeric grammar and diction.
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