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From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:29:35 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for March 18 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:
    Mar 17: 347-362
    Mar 24: 363-381
    Mar 31: 382-397
 

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:
    Mar 19 Assignment 75 11.4 Rhampsinitus (1) paragraphs 1-2 14 lines
    Mar 26 Assignment 76 11.4 Rhampsinitus (1) the rest in two paragraphs
    Apr 02 Easter break - no assignment
 

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek To GCSE: Part 1"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    Mar 19.ass 39 6.19
    Mar 26 ass 40 6.20-6.21
    Apr 02 Easter break no assignment
    Apr 09 ass 41 6.22
    Apr 16 ass 42 6.23-6.24
 

Group: GSCE-2 Advanced Attic (KAPPA)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor, "Greek Beyond GCSE" Second Edition (2017)
Assignments:
    Mar 21 Ex 8.5 27-36 It is possible that the statue of Phrasiclea
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasikleia_Kore was buried as part of this expulsion.
    Mar 28 no assignment - Easter
    Apr 04  Ex 8.5 37-45
    (Note change from Tuesday to Thursday)
 

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:
    Mar 21 Assignment 34 6A 16-29 ; review ex 4c 1-7
    Mar 28 no assignment (Easter)
 

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:   
    Mar 17  Section 19.6
    Mar 24  Section 20.1
    Mar 31  Break Easter
    Apr 07  Section 20.2
    Apr 14  Section 20.3
    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:
    Mar 18  Acts 28:05-07
    Mar 25  Acts 28:08-11
    Apr 01  Acts - no assignment - Easter
    Apr 08  Acts 28:12-16
    Apr 15  Acts 28:17-19
    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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