Professor Foster
efoster@wooster.edu
Luce 114
(330) 263-2352
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from 12:00 to 12:45.
(Senior IS students will have priority on Tuesdays. I recommend you make an appointment or call before you come in on any day.)

GREEK 101

Syllabus 



Required Text: Athenaze (with the Athenaze workbook)

Course Goals:
The goal of the first semester of ancient Greek is to give students a grasp of 
the basic grammatical structures of the language. We will practice the language
 through reading and through focused exercises. At the same time, this course 
 will either introduce or review basic knowledge of Greek history, culture, and 
 literature.

Grading: 
There will be only two formal "exams" in this course: the mid-term exam and the 
mid-year exam. These exams will account for 40% of your mark. 50% of your mark 
will be assigned for your daily homework assignments, and for coming to class 
prepared to translate.  You will not be docked for errors on your homework, 
unless I come to believe that the errors are the result of carelessness, rather 
than confusion.  Homework assignments must be neat, the various exercises must 
be marked (e.g. 1a, 1b. 2a, etc.) and your name must be on each assignment. If 
more than one page is handed in, these pages must be stapled together. 
Assignments may change from those announced in the syllabus: it is your
 responsibility to keep track of the daily homework assignments, and to get them 
 from me or from your friends if you miss a class. The remaining 10% of your 
 mark will be assigned for performance in unannounced pop quizzes.

Grading Summary:
50% for daily homework
10% for pop quizzes  
40% for exams (=15% for the mid-term, and 25% for the mid-year exam)
The Final (i.e. mid-year) Exam is on Tuesday, December 13 at 7:00 PM.

Departmental Tutors: Departmental tutors from among the more senior classics 
students will be available to help you with your homework for this course.  
Names and availability of these tutors will be announced ASAP.

Academic Honesty
The Department of Classics has the highest expectations in regard to academic 
honesty. No dishonesty of any kind will be tolerated. Thus, while we expect and 
encourage you to collaborate with other people when you do your homework, all 
of the answers to all of the questions must be your own.  If you are copying 
answers from other people's homework, this fact will quickly emerge from the 
results of quizzes and in class translation exercises, so don't do it! Any 
incidence of cheating on an exam will be taken extremely seriously.

Learning Disabilities
Any student with a documented learning disability is requested to speak with 
Pam Rose, Director of the Learning Center (ext. 2595), and with the instructor, 
as early in the semester as possible. All discussions will remain confidential.

Week 1
 
Aug 29: Introduction: Your textbook, workbook, assignments, etc. Studying for 
this class: Word lists and other strategies. Preparing readings. Accent 
expectations.  Greek! The Alphabet and all the other marks on the page 
(Pp. xii - xix).

Assignment: review pages xii to xix, and do page xix.

Aug 30: Nouns and verbs.  

Assignment: 6-7. Prepare 

Aug 31: Read and review pronunciation, alphabet, introduce long and short syllables. 

Assignment 10-11. Prepare

Sept 2:  Present indicative. 

Assignment: pages 14-16. Prepare  Weekend Homework.


Week 2

Sept 5:  2nd declension. Article, adjective, noun. The cases. How to practice 
declensions. Verb accents. 

Assignment: page 21-22. Prepare 

Sept 6:   Verb forms: 3. plural, imperatives, infinitives.  

Assignment: pg.27-29. Prepare 

Sept 7:  2nd declension entire, more accents.  

Assignment: pp. 33-35.

Sept 9:  Verb Forms, epsilon contracts

Assignment: Weekend Homework, pg. 40, and review vocabulary.


Week 3

Sept 12:   1st declension. 

Assignment: pp. 42-45. Prepare 

Sept 13:  1st  declension, cont. First and Second Declension Adjectives; megas and polus.  

Assignment: pp. 49-50. Prepare 

Sept 14:  Adverbs, the definite article. 

Assignment: pp. 51-53. Prepare 

Sept 16:   Alpha contract verbs; recessive accent. Articles and clause 
structure. Elision. 

Assignment: pp. 57-58: Gods and Men. Prepare  Weekend Homework.


Week 4

Sept 19:  Personal Pronouns. Attributive and Predicate position of adjectives. 

Assignment: pp. 67-71. Prepare 

Sept 20:  Review pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, articles. 

Review assignment.

Sept 21:  Active, Middle, and Passive Voice. 

Assignment: pp. 78-83. Prepare 

Sept 23:  Middle Voice, cont. Dative and prepositions. 

Assignment: 87-90; Weekend homework. Prepare 

 
Week 5

Sept 26:  Adjectives as nouns. Third declension Velar and Dental Stems. 

Assignment: p. 100. Review assignment.

Sept 27:   Reflexive pronouns. 

Assignment:  pp. 101-103. Prepare 

Sept 28:  Third declension, Nasal Stems. ??S.  

Assignment: pp. 108-109. Prepare 

Sept 30:  Review 3rd declension. 

Prepare  Weekend Homework.


Week 6

Oct 3:  Participles (middle forms). 

Assignment:  pp. 116-120. Prepare

Oct 4:  Interrogative and directional adverbs. 

Assignment: pp. 124.

Oct 5:  Third Declension, cont. 

Assignment: pp. 127 and review.

Oct 7:  Numbers, Adverbs of Time.  

Assignment: pp. 129. Prepare  Weekend Homework.


Week 7

Oct 10:   Active Participles. 

Assignment: pp. 137-141.

Oct 11:  Third Declension, stems in t. 

Assignment: pp. 146-149.

Oct 12:  B. 

Assignment: Prepare 

Oct 14: 

Assignment: Verb Form review. 


Week 8

Oct 17: Mid-term Exam.  

Assignment: Prepare 

Oct 18: Verb Form Preview.   Future tense.  

Assignment: p. 160.

Oct 19: Deponent futures. 

Assignment: pp. 161-163. Prepare 

Oct 21:  Future tense cont.  

Assignment: p. 168 (in class)


Week 9

 (Break!)

Oct 26: 

Assignment: pp. 169-171. Prepare 

Oct 28:  Aorist/Strong Aorist. 

Assignment: p. 178.


Week 10

Oct 31:   Aorist tense, cont.  

Assignment: pp. 181-185.

Nov 1:  More aorist. 

Assignment: pp. 189-190

Nov 2:  Augmentation.  

Assignment: pp. 191-192. Prepare 

Nov 4: 

Assignment: pp. 193.  Prepare   Weekend Homework: Review.


Week 11

Nov 7:  First or weak aorist. 

Assignment: pp. 198-199.

Nov 8:  First aorist participles.  

Assignment: pp. 199-203. Prepare 

Nov 9:  Even more aorist! 

Assignment: pp. 208-209.

Nov 11:  Aorist Review.  Prepare  

Assignment: pp. 210-211. Weekend Homework.


Week 12

Nov 14: 

Assignment: pp. 210-211. Prepare 

Nov 15:   Imperfect tense. 

Assignment: pp. 215-216. 

Nov 16: Aspect and the imperfect. 

Assignment: pp. 217-221. Prepare 

Nov 18:  Relative Clauses. 

Assignment: pp. 225-226; Weekend Homework.


Week 13

Nov 21:  Nouns and adjectives with stems in -es. ????S. 

Assignment: pp. 227-228.

Break!


Week 14

Nov 28: 

Assignment: pp. 229-230.  Prepare 

Nov 29:  Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs. 

Assignment: pp. 238-240, plus review charts.

Nov 30:  Demonstratives. 

Assignment: pp. 245-246.

Dec 2:  Interrogatives. 

Assignment: pp. 247. Prepare 


Week 15 

Dec 7:  Athematic 2. Aorist.  

Assignment: pp. 253-256

Dec 8:  Omicron contracts. 

Assignment: pp. 262-263.

Dec 9: Review! Catch Up!

Break!


Week 16
 
Study Session.

Mid-Year Exam (Tuesday, December 13th at 7:00 PM)