instructor Jim Marks
   jmarks@ufl.edu
   125 Dauer Hall
   office hours: MWF

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with Hesiodic Greek, and to appreciate Hesiodic poetry in its social and historical context.  NOTE: READINGS FOR THIS COURSE ARE IN ANCIENT GREEK.

texts (available Orange & Blue Textbooks 309 NW 13th St 375-2707)
required

• Hesiod's Works and Days (Bryn Mawr Commentaries), edited by Richard Hamilton, Hackett Publishing, ISBN: 0929524543
• Hesiod's Theogony (Bryn Mawr Commentaries) edited by Richard Hamilton, Hackett Publishing, ISBN: 0929524152

recommended for undergraduates, required for graduate students:

• Hesiodi Theogonia Opera Et Dies Scutum, edited by Friedrich Solmsen, Oxford Classical Texts, ISBN: 0198140711

recommended for all who don't have them yet

• Henry Liddell.  An Intermediate Greek Lexicon.  Oxford UP.  ISBN 0199102066
• N.  Marinone.  All Greek Verbs.  Duckworth.  ISBN 0715617729
• Herbert Smyth.  Greek Grammar.  Harvard UP.  ISBN 0674362500

web resources

• click here for BIBLIOGRAPHY
• click here for THEOGONY OUTLINE
• click here for THEOGONY CHART
• click here for WORKS AND DAYS OUTLINE

evaluation
undergraduates

• class participation = 10% of total grade: full credit will be given to students who come to class prepared to translate and discuss the assigned passages
• 10 weekly quizzes (non-cumulative): 6% each = 60% of final grade (Wednesday January 18, Friday January 27, Monday February 6, Wednesday February 15, Friday February 24 Wednesday March 8, Friday March 24, Friday March 31, Monday April 10, Wednesday April 19)
• 2 exams (non-cumulative): 15% each = 30% (Friday March 3, Wednesday April 26)

graduate students

• class participation = 10% of final grade
• quizzes = 50%
• exams = 30%
• 2 brief presentations to the class = 10% (see instructor for sign-up; click HERE for topics)
• graduate students will also read on their own the Hesiodic Aspis, a passage from which will appear on the second exam (April 26)