Introduction to Latin
This course is an introduction to the Latin language and grammar. No previous Latin or foreign language is assumed or required. Tailor-made for hard-working students, this course will lay the necessary foundation to Latin study, which is itself a necessary foundation for profound study of the humanities in the West.
Instructor: Tim Markey
Tim Markey received his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University specializing in Classics and Renaissance literature, and was for four years a member of the English Department at Boston University, teaching English there and Renaissance literature, art, and thought in the Core Curriculum. He has published and reviewed books, and lectured in the United States, Canada, England, and Europe (review forthcoming in Essays in Criticism (Oxford University Press)). Past recipient of the Classical and Modern Literature Award, Dr. Markey gratefully accepted a Teacher Tribute from Stanford University in October 2007. He begins his sixth year in the Classics Department at Brunswick this fall.
Intensive Ancient Greek
Prerequisite: study of the Latin language, preferably through the A.P. level.
For the student already reasonably competent in Latin, the glories of ancient Greek await. This course will provide students with an intensive study of the Attic grammar and syntax equivalent to a full year of high school Greek (or a half-year college course). It will be assumed that students will spend four hours each morning in classroom instruction and private study. Using Volume I of the Oxford series Athenaze, we shall learn the three noun declensions, the several basic tenses and moods, and familiarize ourselves with the active, middle, and passive voices. Our focus will be on learning to translate fluently and accurately by reading the various narrative passages included in the text. Translation will be primarily from Greek to English, but effort will be expended as well in translating from English to Greek. Some examination of the Greek culture will also take place along the way.
Instructor: Brian Freeman
Dr. Brian Freeman majored in Classical Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University; subsequently he went on to graduate study in Comparative Literature at Harvard, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1993. He continued to teach at Harvard as a Lecturer on Literature until coming to Brunswick in 1997. At Brunswick, in addition to teaching Greek I and II, he has taught English and American literature to sophomores and juniors and has offered elective courses to seniors in English over the past decade with such titles as Existentialism, Dangerous Liaisons, On Heroes and Hero-Worship, British Fantasy Literature, and The Plot: Paranoia and Surveillance in Literature.