University of Texas at Austin

LAT 506:  Beginning Latin I
LAT 507:  Beginning Latin II
LAT 311:  Intermediate Latin I (Vergil's Aeneid)
LAT 312K:  Intermediate Latin II (Readings in Latin Prose)
LAT 323:  Advanced Readings in Latin (Caesar)
GK 804:  Intensive First-Year Greek
C C 301:  Introduction to Ancient Greece
C C 302:  Introduction to Ancient Rome
C C 303:  Introduction to Classical Mythology
C C 304C:  Introduction to Ancient Egypt

For thirty-three years, Intensive Summer Greek at UT Austin has been giving students of diverse backgrounds and interests a rapid and deep understanding of the structure of the Greek language and a love of Greek prose and poetry. You need have no previous knowledge of Greek. If you have had a semester or two or more, the special approach in this course will strengthen your grasp of how Greek works and why it is so subtle a vehicle for conveying ideas.

You will use *Lexis*, a unique textbook and reader designed by the late Gareth Morgan. All of its exercises are based on full passages of real, unaltered and unabbreviated Classical Greek. First readings of Ionic Greek will make you aware of word formation, and that knowledge will enable you to acquire vocabulary quickly. Ionic Greek also is a main component of the Homeric dialect. Once you learn it, you can move easily forward to standard Attic authors and Biblical Greek and backward to Greek epic verse.

You will not read one dreary practice sentence made up in clever desperation or desperate ingenuity. By the sixth day, you will be reading continuous pure Herodotus. All students who successfully complete the course will be well prepared for sophomore-level classes and dedicated students from past intensive courses have been able to go into classes at higher levels. Students of other subjects have used Greek right away to enrich and inform their studies.

Students must register for both GK W804 and W412. The course runs through both summer sessions. It meets for five hours each day for about fifty class days, and, if satisfactorily completed, counts for 12 semester hours. Classes working under these language-saturation conditions have achieved an enthusiasm and spirit conducive to an unusually rich learning experience. Usually, in the second half, besides ample grammar review, we read Homer's Odyssey IX, Euripides' Medea, Plato's Apology, and some supplementary readings handed out in class.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lesley Dean-Jones
ldjones@mail.utexas.edu

The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Classics
Mailcode C3400
Austin, TX 78712