Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:16:47 +0100
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for April 22 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:
    Apr 21: 431-446
    Apr 28: 447-462
    May 05: 464-480     
    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:
    Apr 23 Assignment 79 11.9 Assorted conditionals, Rhampsinitus (2) paragraph 1 lines 1-9
    30 Apr Assignment 80 11.10 Rhampsinitus (2) paragraphs 2-4 end line 34
    07 May Assignment 81 11.10 Rhampsinitus (2) last two paragraphs
    14 May Assignment 82 11.11-11.12

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek To GCSE: Part 1"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    Apr 23 ass 43 6.26-6.28
    Apr 30 ass 44 6.29-6.32
    May 07 ass 45 6.33

Group: GSCE-2 Advanced Attic (KAPPA)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor, "Greek Beyond GCSE" Second Edition (2017)
Assignments:
    Apr 25 Ex 8.6 43-52
    May 02 Ex Ex 8.6 53-62

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:
    Apr 25 Assignment 38 Reading 6B 10-23 ; Review ex 5a 9-15
    May 02 Assignment 39 Reading 6B 24-38 ; Review ex 5b all
    May 09 Assignment 40 Reading 6B 39-end ; Review ex 5c first three passages

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:   
    Apr 21  Section 21.1
    Apr 28  Section 21.2
    May 05  Section 21.3
    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:
    Apr 22  Acts 28:20-22
    Apr 29  Acts 28:23-25
    May 06  Acts 28:26-27
    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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