Advanced Greek

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Tutor: to be confirmed
• Prerequisites: Intermediate Greek or equivalent (e.g. A-level)
• Assessment: unseen written examinations (70%) and a 3000-word essay (30%)

In this module you will learn to read most prose and verse texts with confidence, gain a high level of grammatical comprehension and appreciate stylistic differences between texts.

Besides grammar work to consolidate your prior knowledge, the module will include:

• unseen translation
• prose composition
• elementary study of metre
• the study of extracts from a range of authors (e.g. Plato, Thucydides, Euripides, Herodotus, Sophocles and Homer).

You are expected to do regular preparation of set texts, prose translations and other translation exercises.