Advanced Greek Prose: Greek Storytelling

Classics majors and minors must take course for letter grade. Reading Greek for enjoyment: selections from Greek prose. Emphasis is on Greek storyteling: historiography, hagiography, and frank fiction from authors known and less well-known. Humor, paradox, and pathos; versimilitude and narrative techniques; the aesthetics of purple passages: ekphrasis and ekplexis. Attention to diction as a stylistic choice and development of reading strategies for longer sentences. May be repeated for credit.