Programme

Phonetics
- Indo-European; the origins of the Greek alphabet
- Alphabet and pronunciation
- Classification of vowels, diphthongs, and consonants
- Orthographic and diacritical marks
- Rules of accentuation
- Some phonetic phenomena: crasis, contraction, ablaut.

Morphology
- The article
- The first and second declensions and their exceptions
- All stems of the third declension
- First-class adjectives
- Second-class adjectives
- Basic notions on the Greek verbal aspect
- The present (indicative, imperative, infinitive, optative, participle) active and middle-passive of thematic conjugation verbs (omega verbs), athematic verbs (mi-verbs, including those with reduplication), contracted conjugation verbs, and the verb 'to be'
- Rules of augmentation. The imperfect of the verb 'to be' and of verbs of all conjugations
- Personal and demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
- Interrogative pronoun and adjective 'tis', indefinite pronoun and adjective 'tis'
- System of the aorist I, II, III - Cappadocian aorist - Introduction to the passive aorist - Future Syntax - Complements of time, place, company, advantage, disadvantage, topic, cause, purpose. - Final, causal, consecutive, infinitive (subjective and objective), temporal, and indirect interrogative clauses, relative clauses - Values of the participle (used as a noun, attributive, joined; predicative value) - The absolute genitive.

Core Documentation

C. Campanini, P. Scaglietti, Il Greco di Campanini, Sansoni 2017 (Grammar). Materials and handouts for working on the text will be provided by the teacher during the lessons. For independent practice, you can use any exercise book available on the market for the first two years of classical high school.

Attendance

Attending the course is highly recommended: any special needs should be arranged with the teacher.

Type of evaluation

At the end of the course, there will be a written test that will involve translating a short text. The final test will also assess the different skills developed during the course, knowledge of vocabulary, the ability to recognize the essential elements of grammar and syntax in a text, and the use of vocabulary.

Programme

Phonetics
- Indo-European; the origins of the Greek alphabet
- Alphabet and pronunciation
- Classification of vowels, diphthongs, and consonants
- Orthographic and diacritical marks
- Rules of accentuation
- Some phonetic phenomena: crasis, contraction, ablaut.

Morphology
- The article
- The first and second declensions and their exceptions
- All stems of the third declension
- First-class adjectives
- Second-class adjectives
- Basic notions on the Greek verbal aspect
- The present (indicative, imperative, infinitive, optative, participle) active and middle-passive of thematic conjugation verbs (omega verbs), athematic verbs (mi-verbs, including those with reduplication), contracted conjugation verbs, and the verb 'to be'
- Rules of augmentation. The imperfect of the verb 'to be' and of verbs of all conjugations
- Personal and demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
- Interrogative pronoun and adjective 'tis', indefinite pronoun and adjective 'tis'
- System of the aorist I, II, III - Cappadocian aorist - Introduction to the passive aorist - Future Syntax - Complements of time, place, company, advantage, disadvantage, topic, cause, purpose. - Final, causal, consecutive, infinitive (subjective and objective), temporal, and indirect interrogative clauses, relative clauses - Values of the participle (used as a noun, attributive, joined; predicative value) - The absolute genitive.

Core Documentation

C. Campanini, P. Scaglietti, Il Greco di Campanini, Sansoni 2017 (Grammar). Materials and handouts for working on the text will be provided by the teacher during the lessons. For independent practice, you can use any exercise book available on the market for the first two years of classical high school.

Attendance

Attending the course is highly recommended: any special needs should be arranged with the teacher.

Type of evaluation

At the end of the course, there will be a written test that will involve translating a short text. The final test will also assess the different skills developed during the course, knowledge of vocabulary, the ability to recognize the essential elements of grammar and syntax in a text, and the use of vocabulary.

Programme

Phonetics
- Indo-European; the origins of the Greek alphabet
- Alphabet and pronunciation
- Classification of vowels, diphthongs, and consonants
- Orthographic and diacritical marks
- Rules of accentuation
- Some phonetic phenomena: crasis, contraction, ablaut.

Morphology
- The article
- The first and second declensions and their exceptions
- All stems of the third declension
- First-class adjectives
- Second-class adjectives
- Basic notions on the Greek verbal aspect
- The present (indicative, imperative, infinitive, optative, participle) active and middle-passive of thematic conjugation verbs (omega verbs), athematic verbs (mi-verbs, including those with reduplication), contracted conjugation verbs, and the verb 'to be'
- Rules of augmentation. The imperfect of the verb 'to be' and of verbs of all conjugations
- Personal and demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
- Interrogative pronoun and adjective 'tis', indefinite pronoun and adjective 'tis'
- System of the aorist I, II, III - Cappadocian aorist - Introduction to the passive aorist - Future Syntax - Complements of time, place, company, advantage, disadvantage, topic, cause, purpose. - Final, causal, consecutive, infinitive (subjective and objective), temporal, and indirect interrogative clauses, relative clauses - Values of the participle (used as a noun, attributive, joined; predicative value) - The absolute genitive.

Core Documentation

C. Campanini, P. Scaglietti, Il Greco di Campanini, Sansoni 2017 (Grammar). Materials and handouts for working on the text will be provided by the teacher during the lessons. For independent practice, you can use any exercise book available on the market for the first two years of classical high school.

Attendance

Attending the course is highly recommended: any special needs should be arranged with the teacher.

Type of evaluation

At the end of the course, there will be a written test that will involve translating a short text. The final test will also assess the different skills developed during the course, knowledge of vocabulary, the ability to recognize the essential elements of grammar and syntax in a text, and the use of vocabulary.