Greek Course Outline
First Year
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The first year of Greek uses an inductive method which presumes some prior knowledge of Latin.
Textbooks
- R. D. Anderson, Animal Story: A Graded Greek Reader (GlossaHouse Media, 2024). Purchase in Australia. Purchase outside Australia.
Handouts
Ancient Greek: Beginnings
- Exercises
- Stress Rules for Greek (summary)
- Signs for Counting (Greek and Hebrew)
Aids
Parsing can be practiced at: http://mastergreek.com/
For a modest price there is a good Android app for learning your verb forms.
Anki digital memory cards for Animal Story (Rodney den Boer)
Hours per week: 4
Second Year
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The second year of Greek is divided into two components, each two hours per week. The first component comprises readings from the various Readers noted below. The second component is further divided into two sections, each one hour per week. The first tackles the exercises in North & Hillard aimed at a good understanding of Attic grammar and the ability to write Attic prose. The second tackles the prose composition method of Theon’s Progymnasmata, a method dating to the first century AD.
Textbooks
- H. W. Smyth (rev. G. M. Messing), A Greek Grammar for Colleges (New York: American Book Company, 1956)
- G. A. Kennedy (transl. w. introduction and notes), Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003)
- M. A. North & A. E. Hillard, Greek Prose Composition (London, [ca.1898]).
Readers
- More Exercises in Indirect Speech
- Answers for the exercises in Indirect Speech
- A Workbook for the Exercises of Theon’s Προγυμνάσματα
- Sample Answers to the Exercises of Theon’s Προγυμνάσματα
- The Ancient Prophecy of Enoch: 1 Enoch 1 – 11
- 2 Peter
- NT Texts related to Women in Office
Aids
Anki digital memory cards for 1 Enoch (Dathan Pleiter)
For a handy English to ancient Greek online Dictionary click here.
Hours per week: 4
Third Year
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The third year of Greek aims at introducing the student to more difficult and varied prose readings. Those students who have not done the course in North & Hillard are required to take this together with the second year students.
Textbooks
Readers
- Readings from 1 Maccabees
- Readings from 2 Maccabees
- John Chrysostom: Extract from De Sancta Pentecoste I
- Readings from Justin Martyr Apologia I
- Josephus and the Bible: A Greek Reader
- 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
- 1 Corinthians 7
Handouts
Hours per week: 2
Fourth and Fifth Year
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The fourth and fifth years of Greek aim at introducing the student to Ionic prose, Greek poetry and metre, as well as readings from the papyri.
Textbooks
- D. G. Miller, Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014).
- M. L. West, Introduction to Greek Metre (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
- R. Hannah, Time in Antiquity (London: Routledge, 2009).
Readers
- Herodotus and the Bible: A Greek Reader
- Aratus, Phaenomena (Excerpts) including notes on Acts 17:16-34: A Greek Reader
- Oppian, Halieutica (Excerpts) and Biblical References to Fishing with appendices of other ancient sources related to fishing: A Reader
- Luke 1 – 2
- Roman Requisition of Transport and the New Testament: A Greek Reader
Aids
Anki digital memory cards for Aratus (Jacob Baijal)
Hours per week: 2
Supplementary Readers
- Strabo and the NT: A Greek Reader
- Roman Requisition of Transport and the NT
- The Question of the Temple Tax: A Reader
- Polybius and Paul on the Soldier of God: A Reader
- Readings from The Wisdom of Solomon
- Life of the Prophet Isaiah & Martyrdom of Isaiah
- Matt. 13:1-23 The Parable of the Sower
- Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43 The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
- Acts 13:13-52 Paul in Pisidian Antioch
- Romans 1:1 – 5:11
- Romans 11:13-24 Paul’s Metaphor of the Olive Trees
- Romans 12-13
- Romans 14:1 – 15:7: Dealing with Jewish Rituals and Customs
- Galatians
- Ephesians
- Philippians
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 – 5:11
- Hebrews
- James
- Jude
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