Greek IV

Year
0
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
01012916
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of Greek: Greek I + Greek II +Greek III.

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 accessible texts by Attic prose writers (such as Plato, Xenophon or Lysias) and dramatic poets of the 5th century BC. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Texts: passages from Plato's «Criton» and Aristophanes' «Thesmophoriazusae» (or texts of equivalent difficulty).

2. Morphology: consolidation of the perfect in the various moods of the active and middle/passive voices; the subjenctive and its uses; the optative and its uses; -mi verbs; complete conjugation of «oida»; consolidation of main irregular verbs.

3. Syntax: purpose (final) clauses (with subjunctive, with optative and with future participle); indirect speech and indirect questions using the optative; conditional clauses; constructions with impersonal verbs; constructions with verbs that express fear; introduction to the uses of «an» and the shades of meaning in the use of «ou» and «mē».

Head Lecturer(s)

Frederico Maria Bio Lourenço

Assessment Methods

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