ANCIENT GREEK WORKSHOP ADVANCED

Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The 'Beginners' Greek' classes are intended for those students who have not attended the Liceo Classico or studied ancient Greek for A-levels (maturità classica) and wish to attain a level of proficiency suitable for the study of ancient literature, philosophy, archaeology, ancient history and epigraphy.
The course is divided into three parts of 30 hours each. Attendance and examination in each part yield 2 CFU, the sum being of 6 CFU for the total 90 hours.

At the end of the Laboratorio 3 students will:
- have strengthened previous knowledge of Greek grammar and vocabulary;
- know the entire Greek verbal system;
- be able to read, analyze and translate texts of intermediate to high complexity, some of them not adapted;
- know a considerable part of basic vocabulary and the cultural topics connected to it;
- understand the basic structures of Greek and be able to adequately render them into Italian

Expected learning outcomes
Attendance of classes, active participation in online learning activities and individual study will enable students to:
- KNOW the linguistic terminology of Greek; the whole verbal system; basic to intermediate syntax; the basics of elementary Greek syntax.
- UNDERSTAND texts in ancient Greek; the linguistic complexity of the language; the strategies that allow us to translate an ancient text into a modern language.
- ACQUIRE basic Greek vocabulary; critical judgement concerning the best translation choices; ability to evaluate one's work and learning progress; ability to explain one's translation choices to other members of the class and its teacher; ability to discuss a text in a group; ability to explain clearly the grammar and structure of a language;
- LEARN how to take notes and use online resources; how to manage time and deadlines set each week; how to evaluate the level of difficulty of a text; how to answer grammatical and theoretical questions of increasing difficulty correctly.

Pre-requirements
Compulsory:
- adequate proficiency in Italian, which will enable the student not only to attend classes, but above all to translate Greek into Italian adequately;
- knowledge of the Greek alphabet and its pronunciation;
- knowledge of the three declensions, adjectival classes, rules of formation of comparatives and superlatives;
- knowledge of the whole present verbal system of thematic and athematic verbs, subjunctive and optative included;
- ability to recognize and analyze syntactic rules pertaining to the participle, subjunctive, optative, relative, indefinite and interrogative pronouns.

Contents
- How to form and analyze the stem of the present, imperfect, aorist, future, and perfect
- Rules for the formation and conjugation of aorist, future, perfect (active, passive, middle) and their use in context
- Elements of advanced syntax
- Recap of multifunctional conjunctions

Texts for the course
Compulsory:
P. Agazzi - M. Vilardo, Hellenisti. Corso di lingua e cultura greca. Terza edizione multimediale. Zanichelli 2014.
A Greek-Italian dictionary: F. Montanari, GI - Vocabolario greco-italiano (Loescher); L. Rocci, Vocabolario greco-italiano (Società editrice Dante Alighieri), in any edition

Translation of a Greek text into Italian. The exam will take place online in conference call on GMeet.

Teaching methods
Classes. Classes will consist in a short presentation by the lecturer concerning new topics of Greek grammar, followed by individual or group exercises through which the students will learn how to translate and consolidate their knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary.
It is ESSENTIAL that those who attend the course have the coursebook before it begins: please purchase it in advance. Photocopies will not be provided.

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