Greek 2 Winter 2014 Assignments

Greek 2 Winter 2014

Assignments

January 6 First class! Review of Chapter 12β: we will do exercises 12ι, 12κ, and 12μ in small groups, and discuss new material in 13α.
January 8 Read 13α and learn new vocabulary. Read the story that beings 13α.
January 10 Quiz on the present, future, and imperfect of εἰμί (be); sample here. Read through 13β and do exercises 13η 1-5 only and 13ι.
January 13 Quiz on the present, future, imperfect, and aorist of παιδεύω, φιλέω, τῑμάω; sample here; read the through chapter 14α and read the story that begins 14α.
January 15 Do exercise 14β, the poem of Archilochus at the end of 14α, and read through chapter 14β; begin the story that begins 14β.
January 17 Review comparative and superlative adjectives in 14α. Read the rest of the story that begins 14β. Do exercise 14δ.
January 20 Holiday!!!
January 22 Quiz on noun forms: ἡ κρήνη, ἡ ὑδρίᾱ, ἡ μέλιττᾰ, ἡ μάχαιρᾰ, ὁ δεσπότης, ὁ νεᾱνίᾱς, ὁ ἀγρός, τὸ δένδρον, ὁ κλώψ, ὁ φύλαξ, αἴξ, ὁ παῖς, τὸ ὄνομα, ὁ γέρων, ὁ ῥήτωρ, ὁ χειμών, ὁ ἀνήρ, ὁ πατήρ, ἡ μήτηρ, ἡ θυγάτηρ, τὸ τεῖχος, ἡ πόλις, τὸ ἄστυ, ὁ βασιλεύς. Read 15α and the story that begins it; do exercise 15β.
January 24 Read 15β and the rest of the very long story that begins it.
January 27 Finish the story that begins 15β, scanning the epigram at the end (it's in elegiac couplets). Read Chapter 16α and translate the story that begins it. We will discuss the passive voice further in class as we go over the story.
January 29 Be ready to translate the rest of the story that begins 16α and go on to read 16β (verbs with athematic present and imperfects) and begin tranlsating the story that begins it. If you care to scan the last three lines of the story beginning 16β, they are in dactylic hexameter.
January 31 Finish the story that begins 16β, scanning the last three lines (dactylic hexameter). Do exercise 16ε odds. Read the Sappho poems on page 280 (don't scan...we'll do it in class).
February 3 Quiz on the present, imperfect, future and aorist of παιδεύω, φιλέω, τῑμάω, and λείπω; sample here. Read through 17α, where we learn that there are 6 principal parts, and also learn how to form aorist and future passives from the sixth principal part. Read the story that begins 17α.
February 5 Make sure you have finished the story that begins 17α. Read 17β and the story that begins it; if you can't finish it, at least get through the first masive paragraph and the short paragraph that follows it. Keep your eyes on the aorist and future passives. Make sure that you know the prinicipal parts of verbs presented in 17α and 17β.
February 7 Finish the story in 17β.
February 10 Quiz on the present, imperfect, future and aorist of παιδεύω, φιλέω, τῑμάω, and λείπω: active, middle, and pasive; sample here. Review the presentation of μι verb in 18α and read the story that begins 18α.
February 12 Finish the story that begins 18β. Learn the forms of δίδωμι and τίθημι.
February 14 Read through 19α and 19β and come to terms with the genitive absolute and the forms of ιστημι; especally pay attention to which principal parts supply transitive and intransitive meanings. Do exercises 19α and 19ε, and 19ζ (prime numbers only for this last exercise).
February 17
February 19 Midterm!
February 21 Do exercises 20η and 20ζ (if you haven't done them already) and also read through chapter 21α and translate the story that begins it, paying careful attention to what uses of the subjunctive turn up (hortatory, deliberative, or in a purpose clause).
February 24 Finish the story that begins 21α and read chatper 21β and translate the story that begins 21β. Know all the forms of the present and aorist subjunctive that are presented in 21α; begin to learn the ones presented in 21β.
February 26 Quiz on the present and aorist (active, middle, and passive) subjunctive of παιδεύω. Sample here. Finish the story that begins 21β and begin the one that begins 22α.
February 28 Quiz on the present and aorist (active, middle, and passive) subjunctive of δίδωμι. Finish the story that begins 22α.
March 3 Read the Solon passage at the end of 22β. Read through 22β and translate the story that begins it.
March 5 Read through 23α and translate the story that begins it.
March 7 Read through 23β; do exercises 23γ (only Greek to English), 23δ and 23ε
March 10 Read through 24α; do exercise 24α and exercise 24β
March 12 Read through 24β and 25α; do exercises 25δ (primes only) and 25ε
March 14 Read through 25β and 26α; do exercise 26α. Quiz on the optative (present and aorist, active, middle and passive) of παιδεύω (see page 145 for the endings of λύω which works just like παιδεύω); sample here.
March 17 Read Sappho 16 in Campbell, and take a look at its publication as P. Oxy. 1231 in volume X of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Image of the plate alone here; see if you can read anything.

Final Exam Wednesday March 19th from 12 noon - 3 p.m. in the Classics Library