Beginning Classical Greek I

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1 Beginning Classical Greek I
陳斐婷 國立清華大學人社院學士班 09/15/2014

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3 What Will We Read? The farmer Dicaeopolis Theseus and the Minotaur
Odysseus and Cyclopes, Circe, the Sirens… The festival of Dionysus Ancient medicine Piraeus, Epidaurus, seafaring and trade Intermediate Classical Greek I: Herodotus’ Histories Book 1 and Homer’s Iliad Book 1 Intermediate Classical Greek II: Socrates’ Apology and Euripides’ Bacchae

4 Why? How? 為什麼學習古希臘文？ 如何學習古希臘文？ 1. Clean texts minute tip 3. Reading group for prepared translations

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7 Leonidas I and the Battle of Thermopylae
Go, stranger, and to Lacedaemon tell That here, obeying her behests, we fell. (translated by George Rawlinson) Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. (translated by William Lisle Bowles) Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. (translated by Steven Pressfield)

8 Course Logistics 幫助同學們能夠更專注於課堂討論，本課程上課時同學們不可使用3C 電子產品，含筆記型電腦與智慧型手機。
18:30-19:00 Quiz 19:00-20:00 Grammar 20:00-20:10 10-minute Break 20:10-21:10 Prepared translation 三次期中考試各佔20%，隨堂測驗佔20%，上課參與佔20%。沒有家 庭作業，以上課參與翻譯代替，因此你的課前準備與每次出席是非常 重要的。不定期點名，缺席每次扣總成績5%。

9 Introduction

10 The Greek Alphabet and Pronunciation

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12 History of the Pronunciation of Greek
A gradual growth in the teaching of Greek in the 14th and 15th centuries after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. ι, η, υ, ει, οι, were all pronounced as ‘ι’ Antonio of Lebrixa (1503) argued that η is a long vowel corresponding ε to as ω does to ο, and that ζ is pronounced σδ. The 16th century reforms

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21 The tradition of writing accents appears to have started at Alexandria around 200BC and is generally credited to Aristophanes of Byzantium. Initially its use seems to have been intermittent and mainly to clarify ambiguities. However, those who do not wish to master the expertise of accentuation surely need feel no shame. It did not exist at high period of Attic literature.

22 Chapter One

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24 Moschophoros (the Calf-Bearer) ca. 570 BC (Athens, Acropolis Museum)

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35 Grammar

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43 Prepared Translation

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