Course Description: The love-life of redneck, independent country singer, Polyphemus; philosophers, dictators, and gold-diggers in the underworld; a dinner seating chart showdown between Mr. Toxic Masculinity Himself, Hercules, and Asclepius, the alternative medicine provider; the kleptomaniacal Baby Hermes; the version of the Judgment of Paris you definitely can't act out with high school students; the xenophobic god, Momus, trying to Make Olympus Great Again: the funniest of Lucian's satirical dialogues are quite funny. They are also teeming with fantastic idioms for speaking Ancient Greek. When the instructor of this course read over 100 dialogues from Lucian's collections (Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogues of the Sea Gods, Dialogues of the Dead, and Dialogues of the Courtesans) and several longer stand-alone dialogues, these are the ones he marked as funniest. This, of course, is not exactly objective but participants are likely to be quite pleased with these selections. Participants will not only read, paraphrase, and savor the text together, but also use the vocabulary and idioms in it to have personalized conversation about their lives, passions, likes, dislikes, opinions, etc.
DETAILS
Level: This course is intended for students with intermediate to advanced knowledge of Ancient Greek and at least intermediate proficiency in speaking Ancient Greek.
Textbook:We will use the Nimis and Hayes editions, which have copious notes in English. They are all available as free pdfs. The instructor will provide the specific, shorter dialogues from these pdfs (since they come from several collections), as well as Rouse's edition with notes written in Ancient Greek.
Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.
When
Sundays, 8:00p.m. EST
Cost
$250
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