Skidmore College Department of Classics

CG 110: Elementary Greek. 4 credits
Why study ancient Greek? To study Greek is to study ourselves as creators, leaders, thinkers and as humans. Greek sharpens awareness and understanding of how languages work and offers speakers of English the opportunity to rediscover their own language; over thirty percent of all English words (particularly those of the sciences and humanities) are formed from ancient Greek roots. Students in this course will acquire the basics of Greek grammar through reading selections from a variety of authors and texts, including Aesop, Plato, Herodotus, and the New Testament. Prerequisite: None. Department.

CG 210: Intermediate Greek. 4 credits
In this continuation of CG 110, students focus on reading one of the most stirring accounts from antiquity - Xenophon's Anabasis, or "Going Up-Country." This account of an expedition by Greek mercenaries in support of a pretender to the Persian Empire's throne reveals a great deal about how the Greeks viewed the "barbarian" Persians and, ultimately, how they viewed themselves. Prerequisite: CG110. Department.

CG 310: Seminar in Greek Poetry. 3 credits
Advanced reading and critical examination in Greek of the works of one of the following Greek poets or dramatists: Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Bacchylides, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, Sophocles or Theocritus. This course may be taken more than once for credit. Recent courses have focused on "Euripides' Medea," and "Homer's Iliad." Prerequisite: CG210 or permission of the chair. Department.

CG 311: Seminar in Greek Prose Literature. 3 credits.
Advanced reading and critical examination in Greek of the works of one of the following Greek prose authors: Aristotle, Demosthenes, Herodotus, Lysias, Plato, Thucydides, or selections from the New Testament. This course may be taken more than once for credit. Recent courses have focused on the "Histories of Herodotus" and "Rhetoric, Philosophy and History." Prerequisite: CG210 or permission of the chair. Arnush.