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Elementary Greek I


Course Description

The grammar, reading, and translation of Classical Attic Greek.


Athena Title

Elementary Greek I


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in GREK 2050


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student Learning Outcomes

  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able read, pronounce, and write sentences and passages in Classical Greek using the Classical Greek alphabet.
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to identify and classify simple inflectional forms of Classical Greek.
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to describe and explain simple morphological and grammatical structures in original Classical Greek sentences and passages of the appropriate difficulty.
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to translate and interpret simple original Classical Greek sentences and passages of the appropriate difficulty.
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to compare simple grammatical structures between English and Classical Greek and, on the basis of this comparison, compose simple sentences in Classical Greek from English sentences.

Topical Outline

  • The Greek alphabet
  • Punctuation, breathing, and accent marks
  • Speech acts and sentence types
  • Techniques in translating Greek
  • Nouns, adjectives, articles: gender, case, agreement
  • Thematic verbs in the present active indicative
  • Present active indicative of epmu, present active imperative and infinitive
  • Second declension
  • First declension
  • Subject-verb agreement
  • Personal pronouns
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Accentuation in Greek
  • Third declension
  • Interrogative and indefinite pronouns and adjectives
  • Participles
  • Enclitics and proclitics
  • Aorist system of verbs
  • Imperfect tense
  • Aspect
  • Relative clauses
  • Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
  • Non-thematic verbs

General Education Core

CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture

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