CLAH 70320 Advanced Greek Language III
Lecturer: Prof. Stephen Todd
Credits: 30
Contact hours: on average, 1.5 hours a week
Assessment: one 3-hour examination in May/June (100%)
Prerequisite: CLAH 70220 or equivalent
Description
This course-unit takes you on from CLAH 70220 to the next level. It involves (a) the accurate translation and linguistic comprehension of three set texts (at least one of them in prose); (b) practice in unprepared translation from Greek into good English.
The texts for (a) and (b) are more challenging, in terms of quality and/or quantity, than those prescribed for CLAH 70220. Authors and texts typically prescribed include Thucydides' speeches, Demosthenes, Plutarch, tragic lyrics, Aristophanes, Pindar, and Apollonius of Rhodes. You should expect to devote about 5 hours of private study each week to preparing your set texts, memorizing vocabulary and grammar (which may be tested in class), and/or written homework (e.g. a piece of Greek for translation into English, or some lines of Greek with apparatus criticus for comment, or a photocopy of a piece of manuscript or papyrus for transcription or comment). (Note: The MA exam includes an additional element of translation - based on some extra reading - compared with the undergraduate exam for CLAH 30320.)
Select Bibliography
As for CLAH 70220, and in addition:
M. L. West, Textual Criticism
L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars