GRK 3: Intensive Greek (Reading Section)

Greek 3. Intensive Beginning Greek
(Reading Section)
Winter 2004, Prof. Tarik Wareh

N.B. This course was taught at Dartmouth College. It is only roughly equivlalent to Greek 100-101 at Union.

For more information about this course, or to make an appointment, please email the instructor (wareht).

Handout (PDF) giving transcriptions, translations, and further information about the images below.
High-resolution images of ancient Greek writing, which will not fit in your browser window—be sure to expand them to full size!
- Nestor's Cup, later 8th c. B.C. (Naples, Archaeological Museum, photograph and reconstruction by Raymond Schoder)
- Example of boustrophedon writing: Athenian funerary inscription for Chairedemos, ca. 550's B.C. (image from the Center for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford)
- Stoichedon Athenian decree honoring Oiniades, 408/7B.C. (image from the OSU collection)
- Iliad 2.865-864, as the passage appears in a 2nd c. A.D. papyrus and a 10th c. A.D. manuscript, with scholia (reproduced from L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature)