Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 08:18:14 +0100
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for Jun 05, 2023

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Group Listings:

New: "Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium" starting in June.
    Exact date To Be Announced.
Don Wright is taking a break from posting assignments:
    Thucydides, Polybius, Septuagint, Xenophon Memorabilia, Harry Potter

Group: Homer's Odyssey Book 3 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments    
    Jun 04: 216-231
    Jun 11: 232-246
    Jun 18: 247-261
    Jun 25: 262-275

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 2 (BETA)
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Assignments:
    06 June assignment 149 EG 15 & 16
    13 June assignment 150 EG 17 & 18
    20 June assignment 151 EG 19 & 20

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:
    Jun 06 ass. 42 9.11 Theseus and the Minotaur (2) 18-36
    Jun 13 ass. 43 9.11 Meleager to line 23
    Jun 20 ass. 44 9.11 Meleager line 24 to the end

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek To GCSE: Part 1"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
    30 May assignment 5 

Group: GSCE-2 Advanced Attic (KAPPA)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor, "Greek Beyond GCSE" Second Edition (2017)
Assignments:
    Jun 06 Ex 6.27 Xerxes
    Jun 13 Ex 6.28 Salamis

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:               
    Jun 04    Section 5.2 
    Jun 11    Section 5.3 
    Jun 18    Section 6.1 
    Jun 25    Section 6.2

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 29  Acts 23:32-35 [End of ch. 23]
    Jun 05  Acts 24:01-04
    Jun 12  Acts 24:05-10
    Jun 19  Acts 24:11-15
    Jun 26  Acts 24:16-21
    Jul 03  Acts - no assignment [July 1 Canada, July 4 US]
    Jul 10  Acts 24:22-24
    Jul 17  Acts 24:25-27 [End of ch. 24]

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:
    May 30: Book V para 11[2]-12[2]
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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:
    May 30: Book III Chapter 68[4-6]
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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: 
    31 May: Judges 13: 6-10
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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:  
    May 25: Book III section 4[23]
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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: 
    May 27: Chapter 10 page 137.39 καὶ ἐκ τῆς κιβουτοῦ to TBC
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