Greek 102



Greek 102: Introduction to Attic Greek

Course Website:

Allen J. Romano

aromano@uchicago.edu

HME 581; M 2-3 and by appointment

This is the continuation of Greek 101. We will complete units 21 through 38 in the Mastronarde textbook.

Textbook:

Mastronarde Introduction to Attic Greek

As a reminder, the website for the textbook can be found at



Schedule:

Week 1 (Jan 3-): Units 21 and 22 [no class on Friday]

Week 2 (Jan 10-): Units 23 and 24

Week 3 (Jan 17-): Units 25 and 26

Week 4 (Jan 24-): Units 27 and 28

Week 5 (Jan 31-): Units 29 and 30

Week 6 (Feb 7-): [Mon. Feb 7 -- College Break]; Midterm (Wednesday); Unit 31

Week 7 (Feb 14-): Unit 32 and 33

Week 8 (Feb 21-): Unit 34 and 35

Week 9 (Feb 28-): Unit 36 and 37

Week 10 (Mar 7-): Unit 38

Reading Period: March 10-11

Final Exam: Friday March 18, 10:30-12:30

Drill Sessions:

This course includes mandatory drill sessions, Tuesday and Thursday 5-6 and a third session TBA. Sign-up sheet will be posted in the Lounge during the first week of classes.

You should plan to attend one of these every week. Let us know if this time is impossible for you.

Class Preparation and Homework:

In preparation for class each day you should be sure to

-Review grammar and vocabulary of previous units

-Learn the grammar and vocabulary of the current unit

-Do all the exercises for the current unit

-Read the grammar section of the following unit

Homework should be handed in by 5:00 on the day before each class in the Classics Lounge. (usually Tuesday and Thursday by 5:00)

Quizzes:

There will be brief quizzes on the previous week's grammar and vocab every Monday. [Note that this differs from the system last quarter.]

Managing your time:

-Expect to spend (on average) 2 to 3 hours preparing for each class.

-Do the exercises after you've learned the grammar and vocabulary.

-Do the online drills for each section; you do not need to write out your answers but you should keep track of anything you miss; go back and review any mistakes.

Homework and quiz evaluation:

As was the case last quarter, homework does not figure directly into your final grade; however, consistently positive performance on homework will give you a bump up at the end of the quarter and consistently negative performance will result in the opposite.

QUIZZES, in contrast to the situation last quarter, DO FIGURE DIRECTLY into your final grade. There will be regular quizzes on Monday of each week consisting of half grammar and half vocab. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Grades (summary):

class participation (including drill sessions): 15%

midterm exam: 30%

final exam: 30%

quizzes: 25% (lowest grade dropped)

Greek Fonts:

You may submit homework assignments via email if they use Greek fonts and are in Adobe .pdf format. There are a number of resources available. First, some gateways. A listing of all possible fonts is available at

A listing of unicode fonts can be found at

For PC users, you need to download a keyboard utility for Word. On the first page that I listed above, you can choose Antioch. [] It comes with a free (albeit unattractive) unicode font. Word itself comes with Palatino Linotype. Or you can download additional fonts from the second page listed above.

For Mac users, the standard is GreekKeys [ ] which, unfortunately, is $40. However, recent versions of Word should have unicode font support whereby you can bring up the keyboard for the Greek font. Also, SPIonic is a free font which you may find convenient [ ]

Also, if you want to play with dynamic Greek font entry while doing some grammar review, see  

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