Greek Prose Style: Syllabus
Last revision: 5/3/07
Course Materials Accessible from This Site
- Texts of most of the authors read in this course can be viewed via the
resources of the Perseus Project.
- In the assignment list below, if an author's name is highlighted, just
click on it to go directly to the Greek. When viewing the Greek, you can click
on a word and obtain from Perseus a morphological analysis. You can also go to
the Liddell and Scott entry for that word.
- For most authors to be read, excerpts from ancient
critics are available, in translation.
- Also available is an essay on Loose Style and
Periodic Style by Hardy Hansen with analyses of passages from most of the
authors read in this course.
- A Style
Scoresheet lists notable stylistic features of each author read in the
course.
- There is a series of Introductory Sketches
for each author read in Greek 701.
- A General
Bibliography is also available, with links to other Classics sites on the
World Wide Web.
- Unsure about the definition of a rhetorical term? You can check a list of
definitions provided by the Classics Department at the University of
Kentucky.
- Woodhouse's English-Greek dictionary is now available online at
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/. Click here to connect. Thanks
to Nick Fokas for this link.
- Only the list of assignments from 2004 is now
available online. If anyone has been working through assignments from previous
semesters and would like to see a version of the completed assignment, or if
you have any other comment or question, please e-mail me at hhansen@pipeline.com.
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2007 Assignments
- Jan. 31
- Introduction: loose and periodic style
- Feb. 7
- Lysias
12.1-26
- Introductory
Sketch
- In the essay on Greek Sentence
Structure: Loose and Periodic Style read the first six sections
(through Hekataios) plus the sections on Lysias.
- For a stylistic analysis of part of the assigned passage (from the essay
on style) click here.
- For an appraisal of Lysias' style by Dionysios of Halikarnassos click here.
- Click here for the
Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #1, click here.
- Click here for a
sample synopsis sheet.
- For a version of assignment #1, click here.
Note: You may need to click on images to enlarge them, if your
browser automatically shrinks the images to fit the screen.
- Feb. 14
- Lysias
12.27-61
- For written assignment #2, click here.
- Feb. 28
- Lysias
12.79-100
- For a graphic of Lysias 12.99-100 laid out in kola
and kommata, click here.
- For written assignment #3, click here.
- This assignment focuses on correlatives. For a series of "beginning
Greek" drills to review correlatives, along with an answer key, click here.
- March 7
- Anaxagoras, frag. 12
- Plato, Protagoras
320c8-323a4
- Introductory
Sketch
- For a stylistic analysis of part of this passage, click here.
- Click here for
the Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #4, click here.
- This assignment involves conditional sentences in indirect statement.
For a chart of the rules click here.
- [For a less polished example of loose or running style, compare the
"Old Oligarch" (pseudo-Xenophon), On
the Constitution of the Athenians, 1-9 (not assigned).
- March 14
- Gorgias, Enkomion of Helen 1-7, 20-21
- Introductory
Sketch
- For ancient comments on Gorgias click here.
- For a stylistic analysis of part of this passage, click here.
- Click here for the
Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #5, click here.
- March 21
- Plato, Symposion
196b4-d4, 197c1-e8
- Antiphon, On
the Murder of Herodes 1-7
- Introductory
Sketch
- For Thucydides' appraisal of Antiphon, click here.
- Click here for the
Style Scoresheet.
- For a graphic of this selection, laid out in kola,
click here.
- For written assignment #6, click here.
-
[For another early example of periodic style, compare Thrasymachos,
fragment 1 (not assigned).]
- March 28
- Isokrates, Panegyrikos
8-14, 183.2-186
- Introductory
Sketch
- For a stylistic analysis of an Isokratean period, click here.
- For ancient comments on Isokrates' style, click here.
- Click here for
the Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #7, click here.
- April 11
- Isokrates, Panegyrikos
43-50
- For written assignment #8, click here.
- April 18
- Thucydides
5.84.2-102 (the Melian Dialogue)
- Introductory
Sketch
- For ancient comments (and a modern one) on Thucydides' style, click here.
- Click here for
the Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #9, click here.
- April 25
- Thucydides
5.103-114
- For written assignment #10, click here.
- May 2
- Plato, Gorgias
482c4-486d1 (Kallikles challenges Sokrates)
- Introductory
Sketch
- For an ancient comment on Plato's style, click here.
- For an analysis of a "philosophical period" of Plato from the
Republic click here.
- For an analysis of a passage in "pseudo-naive" style from the
Protagoras click here.
- Click here for the
Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #11, click here.
- May 9
- Plato, Gorgias
523a1-527e7 (Sokrates' final reply to Kallikles)
- For written assignment #12, click here.
- May 16
- Demosthenes, On
the Crown 1-4, 126-131, 199-208
- Introductory
Sketch
- For a stylistic analysis of part of this passage, click here.
- For ancient comments on the style of Demosthenes, click here.
- Click here for
the Style Scoresheet.
- For written assignment #13 click here.
- May 23
- Demosthenes, On
the Crown 297-300, 306-313, 324
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