Advanced Greek

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Taught by SFTS. THE SYMPOSIUM: This course will read selected portions of Plato's Symposium, which is one of the best known prose texts in Attic Greek. The class will translate the text and discuss its grammatical features focusing on the syntax of each sentence and morphology of the vocabulary. Pertinent philosophical ideas of Plato will also be discussed as they shed light on the linguistic features of the given text.