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Greek 110, Fall 2018
Assignments & Dates
(Newer assignments will appear at the top of the list.)
- Instructions for generating web-views and MS Word reports from morphological data
- A Study Guide for the Final is online.
- For Monday, November 26: Have the Unit 4 sentences fully documented. This will be an important basis for the final exam.
- For Friday, November 16: Bring your laptop to class. Be ready to translate in public any of the sentences in Drill V or Exercises 1–3. We will work on the other Exercise sentences together, including documenting their vocabulary and forms.
- For Thursday, November 15: Review from the Chapter the rules for the six kinds of conditional sentence: the forms of verbs in the protasis and the apodosis. Study for a vocabulary quiz on the words in: Drill V (p.106) and Excercise Sentences 1–3 (p.107). So… look all those words up and be able to give me English if I give you Greek. There are three prepositions in there: περί, ἀπό, and μετά. In these sentences all of them take a genitive object, so be sure you know the correct meaning for that preposition “+ gen.”.
- For Tuesday, November 13: For Drill V on p. 106 in H&Q look up and be able to identify both verbs in each of the first six sentences.
- For Monday, November 12: Do Drills III and IV on pp. 105–106 of H&Q.
- For Friday, November 9: Write out Drill II on pp. 105–106 of H&Q.
- For Tuesday, November 6: Write out Drill I, 1–15, (a), (b), and (c), on p.105 of H&Q.
- For Monday, November 5: Enter the vocabulary for Unit 4 (p. 99 in H&Q) into your data. Read Unit 4, on some more 1st declension nouns, adjectives, and conditional sentences.
- For Friday, November 2: Bring in, to hand in for a quiz grade, a printout of the Unit 3 sentences and their data. Be ready to read those sentences in class; if you can’t figure out a sentence be prepared to explain the steps you took trying to read it.
- For Monday, October 29: Enter data for, and try to read, Unit 3 Exercises 1–10. (Start the VM,
vagrant ssh,cd /vagrant/ez-morph,git pull,sbt console,:load tools.sc.) - For Thursday, October 25: Enter morphological forms for Drills I and II on pp. 74–75 of H&Q. Validate often!
- For Tuesday, October 23: Study the six principal parts of θύω and γράφω for a quiz.
- For Monday, October 22: Enter into
lexicon.cexthe vocbulary for Unit 3. Validate frequently!! - For Friday, October 19: If you have not given me a printout of a generated sentences+morphology file for Unit 2, bring one in. This will be the basis for your midterm grade. Read in Hansen and Quinn, pages 61–67, on new tenses and new moods.
- For Thursday, October 18: Be prepared to read the sentences in the
unit2.txtfile. - For Monday, October 15: Bring in to hand in the MS Word version of the output of
analyzeFile("unit2"). This will be the draft version that you will correct and complete by Thursday; it will constitute a major part of your reported midterm grade. - For Friday, October 12: Prepare Drill Exercises 1–20 on p. 59 of H&Q.
- For Thursday, October 11: Study for a quiz on the Principal Parts of πέμπω, παιδεύω, κελεύω, λύω, being able to write them and identify each one as to tense, voice, mood, person, and number. Know which verb forms are made from which principal part (by reading the chapter in Hansen and Quinn). Work on the
unit2-template.txtfile in/ez-morph/documents/. - For Tuesday, October 2: Add the Principle Parts of four verbs–πέμπω, παιδεύω, κελεύω, λύω–to the
forms.cexfile; validate. Be able to prove it works by doing (e.g.)lookup("λύσω"). Read the text of Chapter 2 in Hansen and Quinn. - For Monday, October 1: Document the new vocabulary for Unit 2 (p. 53) in your
lexicon.cexfile. Validate frequently! - For Friday, September 28: Print out to hand in your computer-generated analysis of Exercises 1–10 on p. 36. Study for a quiz on the forms of the definite article. It will follow the pattern of the last one.
- For Monday, September 24: Prepare Unit 1 Exercises, on p. 36, numbers 1-10. That is, type them out into a file named “unit1.txt” in
~/Desktop/fall2018vm/ez-morph/documents/, be able to read them aloud in Greek, and make a first attempt at translating them. Also, study for a short quiz on the definite article: given a form, e.g. τήν, give its gender, case, and number (“feminine, accusative, singular” for τήν). - For Friday, September 21: Study the forms of the definite article. The quiz will be on producing the 24 forms, as last time. Try to come to class with Atom up and running, as well as your VM.
- For Thursday, September 20: Take notes on the Vocabulary for Chapter 1. Validate with the Virtual Machine..
- For Tuesday, September 18: Be able to start, log in to, log out of, and stop the Virtual Machine. Learn the forms of the definite article (p. 28) and be able to write them out, in order, for a quiz.
- For September 13: Be able to name the five cases of Greek, in their conventional order: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative. Be able to name the three genders in Greek: masculine, feminine, neuter. Be able to name the three numbers: singular, dual, plural.
- For September 11: In a file named
exercises_1.txt, type out in Beta-code Unit 1 Exercises, 1-10, on p. 36. Test your typing by pasting each sentence into the Type Greek webpage. In your file, have the beta-code on one line, followed by a blank line, followed by the Unicode version produced by the web-app:
o( *o(/mhros to\n a)/nqrwpon paideu/ei.ὁ Ὅμηρος τὸν ἄνθρωπον παιδεύει.
Do not include the numbers, or any text except a beta-code / unicode pair for each sentence.
- For September 10: Complete Accent Drills I (1-10) and II (1-10) on p. 12 of H&Q. If we have not done so in class, do the following:
- Go to https://eumaeus.github.io/fall2018vm/
- Follow the instructions under Setup.
- For September 7: Attempt Accent Drills I (1-10) p. 12 of H&Q.
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For September 6: Windows users: Download and install the Git for Windows Installer. Mac users: Go to the Mac App Store; download and install XCode. Go to http://folio.furman.edu/type/ and practice typing Beta Code by typing Pronunciation Exercise IV on p. 12. Print out the Unicode output to hand in for a quiz grade.
- For September 4: Do Pronunciation Exercise (b) on p. 15. Be ready to hand this in for a quiz grade on Tuesday. Go to https://atom.io and install the Atom text editor.
- For August 31: (1) Know the following, and be able to write an example of each: smooth breathing, rough breathing, acute accent, grave accent, circumflex accent. A quiz will consist of me saying, e.g.: “Write the letter alpha with a smooth breathing.” You would write “ἀ”. (2) Know which characters are labials, which are dentals, and which are palatals. Bring your computer to class Friday.
- For August 30: Given the name of a Greek letter, be able to write it in upper- and lower-case. Understand the difference between “character/grapheme” and “letterform/glyph”. Know what a “diacritical mark” is.
Topics Covered
- “Dead Language”, or, “Closed Production” → “Corpus Linguistics”
- Character, grapheme, letterform, glyph, diacritical mark.
- The Greek Alphabet after 404 BCE.
- Diacritical marks, diphthongs, labials palatals, dentals, and punctuation.
- “Orthography”. Modern orthography of ancient Greek.
- Unicode ( 21st Century computational orthography) vs. Beta-code ( 20th Century computational Orthography).
- File System hierarchy. Root directory (
/). Home Directory (/Users/YourNameor~). - Accents: acute, grave, circumflex. Recessive Accent. Persistent Accent.
Topics To Be Covered
- Inflexion
- Text Editor vs. Word Processor.
Links
- The Liddell-Scott Lexicon (LSJ)
- A basic introduction to the Unix command line
- The
fall2018vmVirtual Machine image. Information here - Type Greek: Type beta-code in a web-page; get nice, normalized Unicode that you can copy elsewhere.
- Sophokeys: A polytonic Greek keyboard for MacOS, based on Beta Code.
- The POS Tag Generator.
- The Atom text editor.
- The DejaVu fonts.
Reflection
The Furman Advantage cites “reflection” as a key component. In this class, “reflection” (which could mean anything), will mean “the ability to talk about what you have done in terms meaningful to people outside of the University”.
Linux is the operating system that hosts the information economy. Scientific research projects, the rendering of animated films, banking, manufacturing processes all tend to run on Linux because it is powerful, capable, and free to use and customize. As you work on Classics at Furman University, you will gain basic (and some not-so-basic) skills with Linux. A basic knowledge of Linux is a marketable skill. At the end of this course, you can add to your resumé: “Experience working with Linux (Ubuntu server, v.14) in a virtualized environment.”