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Graduate Catalog Spring 2000
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GREK -- Greek

GREK 402 Greek Philosophers (3)

GREK 403 Greek Tragedy (3)

GREK 415 Homer (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Extensive readings in Greek from the Iliad and the Odyssey, with special attention to the features of Homeric style and the similarities and differences between the two epics.

GREK 472 History and Development of the Greek Language (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Mastery of ancient Greek through grammar review, prose composition, and analysis of historical developments in Greek writers' modes of expression.

GREK 488 Greek Readings (3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. The reading of one or more selected Greek authors. Reports.

GREK 490 Survey of Greek Literature (3) Greek literature, including authors, genres and periods. The reading of selections from many of the major authors, combined with the study of the history of Greek literature. Review of Greek grammar.

GREK 499 Independent Study in Greek Language and Literature (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

GREK 602 Plato and Aristotle (3) Readings from the works of Plato and Aristotle: an examination of their philosophies and literary qualities.

GREK 603 Greek Tragedy (3) The reading of two tragedies of the Athenian tragedians. Detailed discussion of historical background, literary art, thought, and the circumstances and manner of their production. Other tragedies will be read in English.

GREK 604 Homer (3) The extensive and intensive reading of Homer, with concentration on one of his two epics. Discussion of the language, artistic qualities, and thought of the poems, and of modern views concerning their orgin and literary qualities.

GREK 606 Greek Historians (3) Survey of the Greek historians, concentrating on Herodotus and Thucydides, contrasting the two historians in the areas of subject, methods of research, composition, and achievement.

GREK 672 History and Development of the Greek Language (3) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Mastery of ancient Greek through grammar review, prose composition, and analysis of historical developments in Greek writers' modes of expression.

GREK 688 Special Topics in Greek Literature (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.

GREK 699 Independent Study in Greek Literature (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

GREK 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

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