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Unit name Advanced Language Study: Ancient Greek B
Unit code HTL303
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Arts, Law and Education
School of Humanities
Discipline History and Classics
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Learning Outcomes

  1. Memorise and apply body of the most common ancient Greek vocabulary (as selected by Cambridge UP’s Reading Greek textbook).
  2. Identify and reproduce the patterns of case-endings used by ancient Greek nouns, and the patterns of personal endings used by ancient Greek verbs in the indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative moods.
  3. Recall and explain the rules which govern the formation of simple ancient Greek sentences (including conditional sentences, sentences with purpose and result clauses).
  4. Translate adapted passages of simple ancient Greek into English.
  5. Interpret ancient Greek of the classical and Hellenistic eras (5th-1st centuries BCE) with basic awareness of its cultural context, and some awareness of later developments in Greek culture (e.g. Byzantine transmission of classical texts).

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Assessment

Task 1: Online quizzes x 5 (10%)

Task 2: Final exam (30%)

Task 3: Written assignments x 6 (60%)

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