Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:03:46 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for November 27, 2023

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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 3 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com <mailto:goldfarbdj at gmail dot com> >
Text: posted
Assignments                
    Nov 26: 113-129
    Dec 03: 130-146
    Dec 10: 147-163
    Dec 17: 164-177
    Dec 24: Christmas break
    Dec 31: 178-189

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 2 (GAMMA)
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com <mailto:richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com> >
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Assignments:
    Nov 28 Assignment 62 10.11-10.12
    Dec 05 Assignment 63 10.13 Amasis and the Statue first 2 paragraphs
    Dec 12 Assignment 64 10.14-10.15
    Dec 19 Assignment 65 10.16 Arion and the Dolphin in 2 paragraphs (ends line 18)

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek To GCSE: Part 1"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com <mailto:richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com> >
    Dec 05 ass 27 5.18-5.19
    Dec 12 ass 28 5.20 Chapter 5 ends. Break, and return on Jan
    Dec 19 ass 29 6.1

Group: GSCE-2 Advanced Attic (KAPPA)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com <mailto:jmargrison at gmail dot com> >
Text: John Taylor, "Greek Beyond GCSE" Second Edition (2017)
Assignments:
    Nov 28 Ex 8.4 line 1 to line 9 the end of the sentence
    Dec 05 Ex 8.4 lines 9 - 22
    Dec 12 Ex 8.4 lines 43-57

Group: Eros at the Banquet (BANQUET)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com <mailto:jmargrison at gmail dot com> >
Text: "Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium" by Louise Pratt
Assignments:
    Nov 30 Assignment 22  4B 1-14 ; review 2C d the rest (Theognis and pseudo-Plato )
    Dec 07 4B 15-24 (to end of sentence in line 24 ; review ex 3 scholion, a 1-7

Group: Plutarch on Love (Plutarch)
Coordinator: Martin Petersen <mpetersenm at googlemail dot com <mailto: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:   
    Nov 26  Section 17.2
    Dec 03  Section 17.3
    Dec 10  Section 17.4
    Dec 17  Section 17.5
    Jan 07  Section 17.6

Group: Greek New Testament (GNT)
Coordinator: Kelwin Wylie <greek at wylie dot ca <mailto:greek at wylie dot ca> >
Text: Greek New Testament, Suggested UBS 4 or Nestle-Aland 26 or later
Assignments:
    Nov 13  Acts 26:28-32 [End of ch. 26] *

Group: Thucydides (Thucydides)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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