Intermediate-Advanced Conversational Ancient Greek: Iliad I with Prose Paraphrase

Wednesday., 8pm (U.S. Eastern Time) Course Description: In this course participants will read roughly half of book I of Homer's Iliad by way of Paideia's Dolphin edition, which includes scholiast notes and an amalgam of two Byzantine paraphrases into Attic-Koine Greek. For the first 50 or so lines of the text, the instructor has transcribed the Greek-Greek notes from the 19th century Doukas edition, which will help participants get used to explaining Homeric Greek with Attic-Koine grammatical and lexical terminology. The experience should be very conducive to building one's copia verborum: e.g., recasting participles with conjunction + finite verb clauses (and vice versa), recasting with genitive absolutes, paraphrasing an expression of purpose in the text with all the other ways of expressing purpose, defining Homeric vocabulary with Attic synonyms and definitions, etc. By going slow and savoring, the participants will be able to practice not only these nitty gritty linguistic skills