A survey of Greek literature from the end of the fifth century BCE through the Second Sophistic. Authors read will include Lysias, Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Menander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus, Plutarch, and Lucian.
Course Requirements:
Hour exam, final, a presentation, two short papers. Students will be expected to read about 20 pages of prose or 675 lines of poetry each week.
Intended Audience:
Students will normally have taken Greek 591.
Class Format:
Two meetings per week.