UZKRC07 Reading Thucydides

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Prerequisites
KRSoZk Comprehensive Exam || KRBcZk B.A. Final Exam
Deep knowledge of Classical Greek normative grammar.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is not being taught in a standart form; during consultations the student solves actual problems and answers questions concerning the text, which is prescribed to translation.
At the end of this course, students translate and interpret the work of Thucydides in a dignified way in the context of the ancient Greek historiography, they are also well informed about his syntax.
Syllabus
  • Reading and interpreting Thucydides's Historiae (book I, II).
Literature
  • THUCYDIDES. The history of the Peloponnesian war (Přít.) : The history of Herodotus. Translated by Richard Crawley. S. 345-616. info
  • DEWALD, Carolyn. Thucydides' war narrative : a structural study. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, xiv, 258. ISBN 0520241274. info
  • SMYTH, Herbert Weir. Greek Grammar. Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-674-36250-0. info
  • LEPPIN, Hartmut. Thukydides und die Verfassung der Polis : ein Beitrag zur politischen Ideengeschichte des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1999, 253 s. ISBN 3050034580. info
  • DIMITROPOULOS, Panagiotis. Untersuchungen zum finalen Genetiv des substantivierten Infinitivs bei Thukydides. Helsinki: Societas scientiarum Fennica, 1999, vi, 117. ISBN 9516533000. info
  • A Greek-English lexicon : with a revised supplement, 1996. Edited by Henry Stuart Jones - Roderick McKenzie - Henry George Liddell - Robert. 9th ed. completed 1940 with. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996, xlv, 2042. ISBN 0198642261. info
  • THÚKYDIDÉS. Dějiny peloponnéské války. Edited by Václav Bahník. Vyd. 2., v Odeonu 1. Praha: Odeon, 1977, 595 s. URL info
  • SCHWYZER, E. and A. DEBRUNNER. Griechische Grammatik. München, 1939. info
Assessment methods
Colloquium: reading, translating and interpreting a selected part of the text.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007.
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