Professor: Casey Dué Hackney (email: cldue@mail.uh.edu). Office hours for Fall 2005: 10-12 Fridays or by appointment, Agnes Arnold Hall room 454. MCL Dept. phone number: (713) 743-3007, but e-mail is always preferable. Course web site: http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/1301

This class is an introduction to Ancient Greek - which is itself an introduction to Greek literature, history, and culture. The course is designed to immerse you in Ancient Greek by means of a series of increasingly difficult passages from ancient Greek authors such as Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, and Plato. Over time your reading fluency will increase, and by the end of the year you will be reading selections from classic works of Greek literature with ease.

Required Text Books:

J.A.C.T. Greek Course: Reading Greek: Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; ISBN 0521219760) J.A.C.T. Greek Course: Reading Greek: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; ISBN 0521219779) J.A.C.T. Greek Course: The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984; ISBN 0521273897)

Course Schedule: The course syllabus will be constructed week by week, in order to allow for greater flexibility in the pacing of assignments. The syllabus is here.

Components of the course grade: Participation (including attendance and completion of homework assignments) 40%; weekly quizzes 20%; four hour exams 40%.

Hour Exams: There will be four hour exams in the course of the semester. Each Hour Exam will consist of:

(1) vocabulary (Greek to English and English to Greek);
(2) morphology (verb forms, noun forms, adjective forms);
(3) unaided translation of selected passages from the assigned reading.
(4) short-answer questions on background reading