Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 20:13:12 +0100
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for May 13 2024

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Donald Wright has paused his groups (marked ***) because of the situation in the Middle East 

Group Listings:

Group: Homer's Odyssey Book 4 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
    May 12: 481-497     
    May 19: 498-513
    May 26: 514-528

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 2 (GAMMA)
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Assignments:#
    14 May Assignment 82 11.11-11.12
    21 May Assignment 83 11.13-11.14
    28 May Assignment 84 11.15 Human Prosperity one paragraph; 11.16 Gyges and Candaules para 1 lines 1-6
    04 June Assignment 85 11.16 Gyges and Candaules para 2 lines 7-20 

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek To GCSE: Part 1"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    May 14 ass 46 6.34-35
    May 21 ass 47 6.36-38
    May 28 ass 48 6.39

Group: GSCE-2 Advanced Attic (KAPPA)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor, "Greek Beyond GCSE" Second Edition (2017)
Assignments:
    May 16 Ex 8.6 53-62
    May 23 Chapter 7 Ex 1

Group: Eros at the Banquet (BANQUET)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: "Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium" by Louise Pratt
Assignments:
    May 23 Assignment 42 Reading 6C 15-25 ; Review 5c 3rd and 4th (Cypris and Ajax)
    May 30 Assignment 43 Reading 6C 26-38 (end of sentence); Review Ex 5c 5th only (Ajax again)

Group: Plutarch on Love (Plutarch)
Coordinator: Martin Petersen <mpetersenm at googlemail dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0313%3Asection%3D1,
http://www.faenumpublishing.com/plutarchs-dialogue-on-love.html
Assignments:   
    May 12  Section 21.4

Group: Greek New Testament (GNT)
Coordinator: Kelwin Wylie <greek at wylie dot ca>
Text: Greek New Testament, Suggested UBS 4 or Nestle-Aland 26 or later
Assignments:
    May 13  Acts 28:28-31 [End of Acts]

Group: Thucydides (Thucydides)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante05/Thukydides/thu_pe42.html  
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book V para 22[2]-23[1] ***

Group: Polybius Histories (Polybius)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
The plan is to follow Polybius' version of the Second Punic War relating to Hannibal up to the Roman debacle at Cannae,
and then if people are still interested to follow the career of Scipio Africanus in the war up to Hannibal's final defeat at Zama.
Text: posted, and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D13 
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book III Chapter 70[4-6] ***

Group: Septuagint, Selections (Septuagint)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and https://archive.org/details/selectionsfroms01stocgoog/page/n121/mode/1up
Assignments: 
    Oct 11: Judges 20: 11-15 ***

Group: Xenophon's Memorabilia (Memorabilia)
Coordinator:  Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~Harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante04/Xenophon/xen_mem1.html
Assignments:  
    Oct 12: Book IV section 6[10] ***

Group: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Potter)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: JK Rowling's original, translated into Ancient Greek by Andrew Wilson
Assignments:
    Oct 21: Chapter 10 page 144.39 ἡ δ’ἀναλαβοῦσς Εἴ γ’ἄρα to TBC ***
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