Beginning Ancient Greek
Beginning Ancient Greek (formerly Greek 1)
Things you learn:
- The circle of the hero
- "Always this is true"
- Declensions
- "Four ways to say 'ho"
- Conjugation
- "To come continually in the past"
- A little history
- "Suicide"
- Some mythology
- "It's all about the incest"
- The Odyssey
- "Helen is a shameless whore"
- Meter
- "Teenybopper Disco Queen Dactyllic Hexameter"
- The first ten lines of the Odyssey in Greek
- "Nepios"
- Philosophy
- "Is there a form for a spork...?"
- Art
- "karls corner"
- Sequence of moods/tenses
- "Homer will destroy your soul."
- All about Paris's effemiate yearnings.
- "OMEGA MU GAMMA" (omg).
- That by charting the travels of Oddyseus as literally as the text will allow, one can pinpoint the entrance to the underworld somewhere on the eastern coast of Spain.
- Achilles is a whiny emo brat
- And more...
For any student in greek two, you have the right to call students in greek 1 'Greeklings' a combination of weakling and greek, for you are stronger in greek then they are.
There are two Greek instructors, Sean "King of Translation" Lake, who is better than Robert nepios Fagles. Sean has some strange habits, and can even seem intimidating. He has caused some students to lose faith entirely in heterosexual males.
The other instructor of Greek is Danielle LaLonde. She's very strict and not much fun in the end, but still lets you slack off and waste a hell of a lot of sharpie. If you ever get her, be nice and she'll be nice back, but never bring up Sean infront of her. Sean's Ancient Greek 2 class in 2005 played pranks on Danielle's Ancient Greek 1 class, such as placing all of their desks outside while they were on break. If you want to survive, do not talk about Sean.
This space was formerly the site of some rampant propaganda organized by Greek 2 members. All that those against whom they spoke would say: ὁ Ὃμερος τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμετέρας λύσει.
Before the St. Mary's College of Maryland site became defunct, Greek 1 was offered there as well as at Lancaster. Taught by the appropriately named Jon Strang, the 05.01 session of this course was chiefly notable for the composition of a song entitled "Baby Got Greek," in the model of "Baby Got Back," which was sung at the talent show and closing ceremony for that session and became something of a symbol for STM.05.01 in general.
Jon Strang also taught Greek 1 at the 06.01 Carlisle session. The class's greatest achievement was a Starcrash-esque filming of the Odyssey (most of which was filmed sideways for some reason) and the translation of the Homestarrunner "Trogdor!" song into Greek. There was also a fast-paced game of "Kill Odysseus/Save Odysseus" where Odysseus was changed into a 2nd declension neuter noun ("and therefore cannot be killed!") and Jon and Joseph McCarthy escaped from a prison and made Odysseus' head explode with "three trillion" Attic readings.
I TOOK GRK1 WITH KEVIN LEE- i am amy g. greek was an amusing class. good times. there was a LOT of cramming and memorization. unlike kevin, i was a good student and was somehow able to cram most of it most of the time. you watch really odd movies with bitter australian ex-classics professors. its fabulous. TAKE GREEK1 . then take greek2. i look forward to the madness of sean lake. <3
..Yeah, the bitter Australian ex-classics professor was.. inspiring. As were the glowing gaping mouths of those freaky masks.. What an odd movie...[Verity W.]
In LAN.01.20007 Greek 2 started a war with Greek 1. But, they soon got over their differences and decided to wage war against the Latin class. Latin owned Greek three times, and Greek suffered a humiliating loss. But, they did have fun (unlike the Latin class which took everything too seriously).
