Classical Greek
- CLG 101: Beginner's Greek: Greek GrammarStudents will learn to read Classic Attic Greek with facility and will end the academic year by studying a short Platonic dialogue or comparable text. Our emphasis this term will be on grammar and vocabulary.
- CLG 105: SocratesThis course aims to improve students' proficiency in classical Greek prose, expanding vocabulary and honing grammar and syntax, while simultaneously becoming acquainted with Plato's unique style of philosophic exposition through dramatic dialogues, such as the Symposium.
- CLG 213: Tragic Drama: Euripides' MedeaWe will be reading Euripides' Medea together. Medea, who fled her home in Colchis leaving tragedy in her wake, is abandoned by the Greek hero she saved when he decides to make a new, more opportune marriage. Reading through the play with care, we will attend to the many facets of Medea revealed in the play before its shocking ending. We will explore the complex dynamics of gender, "Greek" identity, and power while reflecting on the unstable boundary between mortal and immortal in the figure of Medea herself.
- CLG 301: PlatoRepublic 1 is a foundational text. In addition to being the gateway to the Republic - a seminal work of political philosophy - it looms large in debates about the relationship of Plato's thought to Socratic ethics. Republic 1 also offers a tragic, ironic retrospective on a tumultuous period in Athenian history. We will read and analyze Republic 1 in Greek, playing close attention to Plato's literary fiction and dramaturgy. In addition, we will discuss Book 1 in context of the Republic, Plato's larger oeuvre, and in relation to the genre of Socratic literature (Sokratikoi logoi).