Research Catalog

Title

Eros at the banquet : reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium / Louise Pratt.

Author

Pratt, Louise H., 1960-

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Plato.

Description

xxiii, 407 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 40

Uniform Title

Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 40.

Subject

• Platon, 427-347 f.Kr
• Plato v427-v347
• Platon
• Greek language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English
• Greek language > Problems, exercises, etc
• Greek language > Grammar

Genre/Form

• Problems and exercises
• Textbooks – for English speakers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• English and Greek, Classical.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Readings and Notes -- Reading 1 The Frame -- Reading 1A -- Reading 1B -- Reading 2 The Drinking Party -- Reading 2A -- Reading 2B -- Reading 2C -- Reading 3 The Speech of Phaedrus -- Reading 3A -- Reading 3B -- Reading 4 Pausanias's Purified Pederasty -- Reading 4A -- Reading 4B -- Reading 5 Scientific and Medical Conceptions of Love: The Speech of the Doctor Eryximachus -- Reading 5A -- Reading 5B -- Reading 6 Aristophanes' Comic Myth -- Reading 6A -- Reading 6B -- Reading 6C -- Reading 6D -- Reading 6E -- Reading 7 A Tragic Oration -- Reading 7A -- Reading 7B -- Reading 7C -- Reading 7D -- Reading 8 Plain-Speaking: Socrates Responds -- Reading 8A -- Reading 8B -- Reading 9 A Woman Speaks: Diotima's Erotic Wisdom -- Reading 9A -- Reading 9B -- Reading 9C -- Reading 9D -- Reading 9E -- Reading 9F -- Reading 9G -- Reading 9H -- Reading 9I -- Reading 9J
• Reading 10 Socrates as Satyr: Alcibiades' Drunken Satyr-Play -- Reading 10A -- Reading 10B -- Reading 10C -- Reading 10D -- Reading 10E -- Reading 10F -- Reading 10G -- Reading 10H -- Reading 11 The End of the Symposium -- pt. 2 Review Exercises -- Review Exercise 1A -- a. Indirect statement with infinitive -- b. Participle forms -- c. Circumstantial, supplementary, and substantival participles -- d. Verb drills: μενω, πυνθανμαι and αΧυω -- Review Exercise 1B -- a. Genitive absolute -- b. Relative clauses -- c. Challenge passages -- Review Exercise 2A -- a. Common independent uses of the subjunctive: hortatory, prohibitive, deliberative -- b. Common dependent uses of the subjunctive: αν in generalizing or indefinite clauses, in purpose clauses, in fear (for the future) clauses -- c. Verb drills: λεγω and αγ ω -- d. Sight-reading: an edifying tale from Aesop
• E. Challenge passages -- Review Exercise 2B -- a. Sight-reading: ancient quotations on wine, water, and drinking -- b. Optative replacing subjunctive in secondary sequence: purpose clauses, fear clauses, generalizations about the past -- c. Optative in indirect statements and questions in secondary sequence -- d. Independent uses of the optative: wishes, potential optative -- e. Verb drills: πνω and εΣθιω -- Review Exercise 2C -- a. Indicative + αν -- b. Subjunctive + αν -- c. Optative + αν -- d. Challenge passages: mixed constructions -- e. Verb drills: αω, αιεω, and εΧμαι -- Review Exercise 3 -- a. Common uses of the accusative, especially accusatives of respect -- b. Common uses of the genitive -- c. Challenge passages -- Review Exercise 4 -- a. Common uses of the dative
• B. Result clauses -- c. Uses of the infinitive -- d. Challenge passages -- Review Exercise 5 -- a. Uses of ωσ -- b. Verbal adjectives in τεσ -- c. Challenge passages -- d. Verb drills: πιπτω and φεω -- Review Exercise 6 -- a. Accusative absolute -- b. Fear clauses: subjunctive and optative (fears for the future) -- c. Numbers -- d. Challenge passage -- Appendixes -- 1. Major Characters in the Symposium -- 2. Time Line of Events Relevant to the Symposium -- 3. Seating Arrangement at Agathon's Symposium -- 4. Structure of the Symposium.

ISBN

• 9780806141428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0806141425 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010032806

OCLC

655302694

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library