REMgr20 Classical Greek for M. A.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023

The course is not taught in Autumn 2023

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Kateřina Bočková Loudová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Kateřina Bočková Loudová, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
REBcZk B. A. State Exam
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is:
1) to deepen and broaden the knowledge of normative grammar of the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek regarding its development in Post-classical, especialy Hellenistic and Byzantine periods.
2) to use the acquired knowledge while reading Post-classical or also Byzantine and "Katharevousa" Greek texts (within the courses "Katharevousa" and "History of the Modern Greek Language I-II").
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students know Classical and Post-Classical morphological and syntactic paradigms; they are able to analyse grammatically Classical and Post-Classical Greek morphological forms and translate them; they are able to translate the New Testament texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Nominal paradigms of Classical and Post-Classical Greek; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 2. Aorist active voice/middle voice; futurum active voice/middle voice; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 3. Aorist passive voice; futurum passive voice; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 4. Comparison of adjectives; conditional clauses; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 5. Perfect active voice; complementary/causal infinitive; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 6. Numerals; pronouns; contracted adjectives; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 7. Perfect middle/passive voice; attraction of relative pronouns in Post-Classical Greek; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 8. Plusquamperfect; uses of the infinitive in Post-Classsical Greek; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 9. Athematic verbs; substantivized infinitive; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 10. Athematic verbs; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 11. Syntax of the simple sentence (case-syntax); 3rd person imperative; temporal clauses; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 12. Syntax of the simple sentence (case-syntax); interrogative sentences; reading selected Gospel passage.
  • 13. Revision.
Literature
  • RUNGE, Steven E. Discourse grammar of the Greek New testament : a practical introduction for teaching and exegesis. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2010, xx, 421. ISBN 9781598565836. info
  • MCLEAN, Bradley H. New Testament Greek : an introduction. 1st pub. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, x, 266. ISBN 9780521177023. info
  • GREEN, Samuel G. Handbook to the Grammar of the Greek Testament : together with complete vocabulary and an examination of the chief New Testament synonyms. Muenchen: Lincom Europa, 2011, xi, 564. ISBN 9783862900633. info
  • PŘECECHTĚLOVÁ, Milena. Exercitia graeca biblica. 2. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 111 s. ISBN 8024601443. info
  • Novum Testamentum Graece. Edited by Eberhard Nestle - Erwin Nestle - Barbara Aland - Kurt Aland. 27. revid. Aufl. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993, 89, 809. ISBN 3438051017. info
  • NESTLE, Eberhard and Erwin NESTLE. Greek-English New Testament. Edited by Barbara Aland - Kurt Aland. English text 2nd ed. of the. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1985, 779 s. ISBN 3438054086. info
  • CARAGOUNIS, Chrys C. The development of Greek and the New Testament : morphology, syntax, phonology, and textual transmission. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004, xix, 732. ISBN 3161482905. info
  • A Greek-English lexicon : with a revised supplement, 1996. Edited by Henry Stuart Jones - Roderick McKenzie - Henry George Liddell - Robert. 9th ed. completed 1940 with. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996, xlv, 2042. ISBN 0198642261. info
  • ZERWICK, Max. Analysis philologica Novi Testamenti Graeci. Ed. 4., nova impressio. Romae: sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1984, xv, 608. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, grammar excercises, drill, reading and interpretation of Greek texts.
Homeworks, individual reading of one Gospel.
Assessment methods
The credits are obtained by passing a written test at the end of the period (min. 70%). The test consists of a morphological and syntactic part (identification and translation of verb forms, nouns and syntactic constructions) and of translation (passage of the selected Gospel).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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