62-070 Greek language for students of political sciences
second cycle Master degree study programme Political Science
Course Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Jadranka Cergol
Content
Content (Syllabus outline):
Students will achieve basic knowledge of Greek language and basic
philosophical categories of Greek thought. Through lectures basic rules of
grammar will be explained, which will allow to students the ability to
read/translate original texts in greek language.
A major
emphasis will be placed on nouns and verbs, which will be discussed in their
main morphological variants. Generally speaking, following elements will be
presented:
- all declinations with specific nouns
- all types of adjectives, comparison of adjectives and adverbs
- numerals
- pronouns
- all verb conjugations
- all times in indicative (present, imperfekt, FUTURE I and II, aorist, pluskvamperfekt)
- all times in optative, subjunctive, imperative, infinitive, gerundive
- basic syntactic rules of dependent sentences
During the exercises, students will practice the acquired knowledge with the
help of original Greek texts. In addition to this, students will get familiar
with the contents of fundamental authors of Greek thought like Homer, Plato,
Aristotle, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Demosthenes.
Selected passages will be read in greek and compared with existing Slovenian
translations.