Textbooks

UC BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS GREEK 15
2013 INTENSIVE SUMMER GREEK WORKSHOP

Textbooks

In the first half of the course we will work largely from:

H. Hansen and G. Quinn: Greek : An Intensive Course. (2nd Revised edition, Fordham University Press 1992). ISBN 978-0823216632.

It is readily available from online bookstores, academic and secondhand bookstores, and (closer to the summer) through the campus stores at UC Berkeley. In recent years the campus stores have been reluctant to order the full complement of Hansen and Quinn requested, so it may be a good idea to try to find a copy before coming to Berkeley. Students should bring a copy of the book to the first class meeting.

By the start of the second half of the course, all students should additionally have acquired a copy of Liddell and Scott’s Abrdiged Greek Lexicon (aka the “Little Liddell”) or one of the electronic versions of the large Liddell and Scott dictionary (aka the “Great Scott”), available for iPhone, Android, and Kindle, etc. These electronic versions are based on an older edition of the Great Scott, but are eminently suitable for our needs. If you already own or happen to find a copy of the “Middle Liddell” at a good price, that is fine, too. Copies of the Little Liddell will be available at campus stores, but here is the publication information should you choose to find it independently:

H.G. Liddell and R.Scott. Abridged Greek Lexicon (Oxford University Press 1935) ISBN 978-0199102075

For the second half of the course students will purchase Greek texts based on their elective choices. There will be four separate reading classes offered, from which students will choose two. The campus bookstores will carry the relevant titles, and students are advised to wait to purchase elective materials until they have signed up for the courses, in the first few weeks of the workshop. This summer, the texts will be:

Prose Courses: (to be announced soon)

Poetry Courses: (to be announced soon)

In the second half of the course, students also may want to have a Greek grammar at their disposal. Depending on the electives chosen, one or the other of the following grammars may be required. Morwood is an excellent resource for students at the intermediate level and is relatively inexpensive; Smyth is more expensive, but most of the current student commentaries on Greek texts are keyed to it.

*James Morwood, Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (Oxford University Press 2001) ISBN 978-0195218510

*H. W. Smyth. Greek Grammar (Harvard University Press 1956) ISBN 978-0674362505

Texts marked with * are recommended but not required.