Provisional University Bulletin (2025-2026)

See Classical Studies.

GRK 10a Beginning Ancient Greek

Three class hours per week.

The basics of ancient Greek language and an initiation into the artistic, religious, social, political, and psychological dynamics of ancient Greece. After taking its sequel, GRK 20b, students can read Homer or Plato in the original. Students must earn a C- or higher in GRK 10a in order to enroll in a 20-level Greek course. Usually offered every year.

GRK 20b Continuing Ancient Greek

Prerequisite: A grade of C- or higher in GRK 10a. Three class hours per week.

Fundamentals of Greek grammar through reading. Students must earn a C- or higher in GRK 20b in order to enroll in a 30-level Greek course. Usually offered every year.

GRK 30a Intermediate Ancient Greek: Literature
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Prerequisite: A grade of C- or higher in GRK 20b or equivalent or instructor's permission. Three class hours per week.

Readings from Plato's Apology and Herodotus's Histories in Greek. Students must earn a C- or higher in GRK 30a in order to enroll in a higher-level Greek course. Usually offered every year.

GRK 97a Senior Essay

GRK 98a Directed Reading

Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.

GRK 98b Directed Reading

Yields half-course credit. Generally reserved for those students who have exhausted regular course offerings. Usually offered every year.

GRK 99d Senior Research

For seniors writing an honors thesis under direction. Usually offered every year.

GRK 110b Greek Epic
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Prerequisite: GRK 20b or equivalent or instructor's permission.

Selections from Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, in Greek. Usually offered every third year.

GRK 115b Ancient Greek Drama and Comedy
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The plays of Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles, in Greek. A different playwright is studied each year. See Schedule of Classes for current topic. Usually offered every fourth year.

GRK 120b Greek Prose Authors
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Selections from Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and other prose authors, in Greek. See Schedule of Classes for current topic. Usually offered every third year.

GRK 125a Greek Lyric Poetry
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Prerequisite: GRK 30a or equivalent.

Close reading and interpretation of mainly fragmentary poems, several of them newly recovered from Hellenistic papyri, of Archilochus, Alcman, Solon, Sappho, and Simonides, along with selected epinicians of Pindar and his nephew, Bacchylides; reconstruction of the poetics of lyric performance. Usually offered every third year.

GRK 298a Independent Study