1. Elementary Greek (5 units). Lecture, five hours; outside study, 10 hours.
2. Elementary Greek (5 units). Lecture, five hours; outside study, 10 hours. Enforced requisite: course 1.
3. Elementary Greek (5 units). Lecture, five hours; outside study, 10 hours. Enforced requisite: course 2.
Note: Greek 3 is requisite to 100, which is requisite to 101A through 106 and 110 through 124.
100. Readings in Greek Prose. Prerequisite: course 3. Reading of Plato's Apology or a text of comparable difficulty.
101A. Homer: Odyssey.
101B. Homer: Iliad.
102. Lyric Poets. Selections from Archilochus to Bacchylides.
103. Aeschylus.
104. Sophocles.
105. Euripides.
106. Aristophanes.
107. Hesiod. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisite: course 100. Reading of Theogony and excerpts from Works and Days, with emphasis on Hesiod's place in Greek literature and his role in transmission of Greek mythology.
110. Study of Greek Prose. Work in sight reading and grammatical analysis of Attic prose texts; writing Attic prose.
111. Herodotus.
112. Thucydides.
113. Attic Orators.
115. Xenophon. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisite: course 100. Reading of one major work of Xenophon -- the Memorabilia, Cyropaedia, Anabasis, Hellenica, or Oeconomicus -- in Greek. P/NP or letter grading.
121. Plato.
122. Plato: Republic.
123. Aristotle: Poetics and Rhetoric.
124. Aristotle: Ethics.
129. Sight Translation (2 units). Requisite: course 100. Practice in translation of previously unseen texts from the simpler prose authors and poets to consolidate grammatical understanding and increase vocabulary and fluency in reading, as well as familiarity with idiom. May be repeated for credit.
130. Readings in the New Testament. Prerequisite: course 3.
131. Readings in Later Greek. Prerequisite: course 100. Topics vary from year to year and include "Longinus," On the Sublime; Marcus Aurelius; Arrian; the Second Sophistic; Plutarch; later epic; epigram; epistolographi Graeci.
132. Survey of Byzantine Literature. Prerequisite: course 100. Readings based on (1) Anthology of Byzantine Prose, ed. Nigel Wilson and (2) Oxford Book of Medieval and Modern Greek Verse, ed. C.A. Trypanis, or if unavailable, Poeti bizantini, ed. R. Cantarella. In addition, necessary historical and cultural background provided by readings and lectures.
133. Readings in Byzantine Literature. Prerequisite: course 132. Topics vary from year to year and include Procopius, Agathias, Michael Psellus, the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, and Digenis Akritas.
199. Special Studies in Greek (2 to 8 units). Prerequisites: senior standing, consent of instructor.
The 200-series courses which are designated A and B (e.g., 201A-201B) are double courses. Course A is a preseminar and is normally requisite to course B, a seminar. Seminars numbered 201A through 233 (except 210) may be taken for either two or four units. If a seminar is taken for four units, a paper is required.
200A-200B-200C. History of Greek Literature (6 units each). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Lectures on history of Greek literature, supplemented on the part of the student by independent reading of Greek texts in original language.
201A-201B. Homer: Iliad (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
202A-202B. Homer: Odyssey and the Epic Cycle (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
203. Hesiod (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
204. Homeric Hymns (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
205. Seminar: Aeschylus (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
206A-206B. Sophocles (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
207A-207B. Euripides (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
208A-208B. Aristophanes (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
209A-209B. Seminars: Hellenistic Poetry (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
210. Advanced Greek Prose Composition. Prerequisite: course 110 or equivalent.
211A-211B. Herodotus (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
212A-212B. Thucydides (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
213. Seminar: Greek Historiography (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
214. Demosthenes (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
215. Early Greek Orators (2 or 4 units). Studies in works of Antiphon, Andocides, and Lysias. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
216. Menander (2 or 4 units). Prerequisite: reading knowledge of classical Greek. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
217A-217B. Greek Lyric Poetry (2 or 4 units each). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading. 217A. Archaic Lyric. Study of lyric poetry of Archaic period, both choral and monodic, with elegiac and iambic included. 217B. Pindar and Bacchylides. Study of choral odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, with special attention to conventions of the epinician.
220. Seminar: Greek Novel (2 or 4 units). Seminar, three hours. Study of the Greek romance and its place in Greek literature. Two texts (Chariton: Chaereas and Callirhoe and Longus: Daphnis and Chloe) studied in some detail. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
221. Seminar: Pre-Socratic Philosophers (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
222A-222B. Plato (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
223A-223B. Aristotle (2 or 4 units each). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
224. Seminar: Post-Aristotelian Philosophy (2 or 4 units). S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
229. Sight Translation (2 to 4 units). Discussion, three hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Practice in translation of previously unseen texts from a variety of authors and genres. Topics include peculiarities of style and vocabulary of the distinct genres, literary vs. scholarly translation, semantic properties of particular words and constructions.
231A-231B-231C. Seminars: Later Greek and Byzantine Literature (2 or 4 units each). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Studies in various aspects of Byzantine Greek language and literature. Topics vary from year to year. Each course may be taken independently and may be repeated for credit with topic change. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
233. Byzantine Poetry (2 or 4 units). Study of main representatives of both religious and secular poetry. S/U (two-unit course) or letter (four-unit course) grading.
240A-240B. History of the Greek Language. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. 240A. Linguistic history of classical Greek. 240B. Postclassical, medieval, and modern Greek.
241. Greek Epigraphy. Survey of Greek historical inscriptions, chiefly Attic.
242. Greek Dialects and Historical Grammar. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Linguistic situation in early Greece. Readings in classical Greek dialectal texts. Greek grammar in context of common Greek and Indo-European linguistics.
243. Mycenaean Greek. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Script, language, and grammar of the Linear B inscriptions; their relevance to ancient Greek linguistic and cultural history.
244. Greek Papyrology. Prerequisites: reading knowledge of Greek, consent of instructor. Introduction to Greek papyri, considered both as historical documents and as carriers of literature.
245. Greek Paleography. Studies in development of book hand in Greek manuscripts earlier than the invention of printing.
596. Directed Individual Study or Research (2 to 8 units).
597. Study for M.A. Comprehensive Examination or Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations (2 to 8 units).
599. Research for Ph.D. Dissertation (2 to 8 units).