Germany Jahrgangsstufe 12 Ancient Greek

1. Texts and their cultural context

Homer's Iliad and archaic worldview · Early Greek lyric poetry · Presocratic philosophers and rational thought · Sophists and the anthropological turn · Plato's Apology of Socrates

• Ancient Philosophy: From the First Questions to Stoicism – Philosophy means 'love of wisdom'. Around 600 BCE Greek thinkers began to explain nature by reason (logos) instead of myth. The Presocratics searched for the first principle (arche): water, air, fire, unchanging being or atoms. Then the Sophists and Socrates turned to human life, and Socrates died for his questioning (told in Plato's Apology). Plato taught the theory of Forms; Aristotle built logic and science from observation. Later Stoics, Epicureans and Cynics, and Romans like Cicero and Seneca, asked how to live a good, calm life.

2. Language basics

Ancient Greek vocabulary · Ancient Greek morphology and syntax

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3. Methods

Methods for Greek text work

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