Greek III

Recommended Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of Greek: Greek I + Greek II.

Teaching Methods

The topics will be proposed by the professor, by contextualizing the theoretical framework with practical commentary on examples of specific texts. The students will be called upon to participate actively in thinking about the points of the syllabus by the practice of grammatical exercises and by the direct contact with the texts, the aim being to impart an ever greater confidence in approaching Ancient Greek texts.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes pertain to the acquisition of basic knowledge in the area of ancient Greek, in order to give the necessary linguistic tools with a view to reading and understanding texts and authors from Greek Antiquity. The aim is that students should acquire the expertise necessary for grammatical and lexicographical understanding. At the end of the curricular unit, they should be able to read and understand small accessible texts from the New Testament, from Attic prose writers and tragedy (Euripides) and comedy (Aristophanes). 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Texts: accessible passages from the New Testament, Xenophon, Plato, Euripides and Aristophanes.

2. Morphology: irregular 3rd declension nouns; comparatives and superlatives (adjectives and adverbs); general overview of pronouns; consolidation of the passive and middle voices; root aorists; consolitation of contract verbs; introduction to the subjunctive and the optative.

3. Syntax: relatives clauses; result (consecutive) clauses with indicative and infinitive; genitive absolute; clauses of indirect speech with conjunctions, infinitive and accusative and participles.

Head Lecturer(s)

Frederico Maria Bio Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Frequency: 40.0%
Mini Tests: 40.0%

Bibliography

BOAS, E.E. et alii (2019), The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, Cambridge University Press.

DENNISTON, J.D. (1954), The Greek Particles, Oxford.

FREIRE, A., Gramática Grega, Braga (existem várias reimpressões).

GOODWIN, W.W. (1889), Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, London.

GOODWIN, W.W. & GULICK, C.B. (1958), Greek Grammar, Boston.

HORROCKS, G.C. (2010), Greek: A History of the language and its Speakers, London.

LIDDELL, H. & SCOTT, R. (1996), A Greek-English Lexicon, with a revised Supplement, Oxford.