2023 Summer Week Program
Browse our course details below. If you have any questions check out our FAQs or email us ([email protected]) directly. When you have made a course selection, enrol via our Eventbrite page and follow us on Facebook for updates.
Ancient Greek Beginners
Tutor: Katarina Cipuseva
Suitable for students with no experience of the language.
This course introduces students to the Greek script and provides the fundamental grammar and vocabulary of the Attic dialect, used by such famous writers as Thucydides, Sophocles, and Plato. We use Chapters 1–4 of Luschnig’s Introduction (see below) as a framework for study.
Textbook: C. A. E. Luschnig, An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach, 2nd edn (Hackett: Indianapolis & Cambridge, 2007). See our FAQs page for textbook suppliers.
Ancient Greek Experienced Beginners
Tutor: Mark Matic
Suitable for students who have completed a MALS Ancient Greek Beginners course or 1 unit of university-level Ancient Greek (contact [email protected] if you require further advice).
This course provides an overview of grammar taught in the beginners-level course, follow-on treatment of grammar, and some guided readings. After revision of Chapters 1–4 of Luschnig’s Introduction (see below), we proceed to using Chapters 5–8 as a framework for study.
Textbook: C. A. E. Luschnig, An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach, 2nd edn (Hackett: Indianapolis & Cambridge, 2007). See our FAQs page for textbook suppliers. Note that readings and exercises are also available for this course on our Learning Materials page.
Ancient Greek Intermediate
Tutor: Emmanuel Roumanis/Samuel Wessels
Suitable for students with 2-3 units of university-level Ancient Greek or equivalent (contact [email protected] if you require further advice). Students should have a good grasp of the basic grammar of the language and be ready to explore original texts.
This course will include treatment of more advanced grammatical concepts integrated with readings.
Texts: Menander, Dyskolos and a selection of inscriptions from the 5th-4th century BCE (see Learning Materials for full list of inscriptions). Texts will be made available on our Learning Materials page from early December.
Ancient Greek Advanced
Tutor: Peter Brown
Suitable for students with 3–4 units of university-level Ancient Greek or equivalent (contact [email protected] for further advice). Students should have a confident grasp of the language. Some prior experience of reading original texts is recommended as a prerequisite.
This course provides guided reading of original ancient texts.
Texts: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Texts will be made available on our Learning Materials page from early December.
Koine Greek Intermediate/Advanced
Tutor: Trevor Evans/Emmanuel Roumanis
Suitable for students with 2–3 units of university-level Ancient Greek or equivalent (contact [email protected] for further advice). Students should have a confident grasp of the language. Some prior experience of reading original texts (Classical and/or Biblical) is recommended as a prerequisite.
This course provides guided reading of original ancient texts.
Texts: Selections from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers and additional texts to be confirmed. Texts will be made available on the Learning Materials page in early December.
Old Persian
Tutor: Christopher Haddad
Suitable for students with no experience of the language.
This course introduces the fundamental grammar and vocabulary of Old Persian, the language found in inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire.
Textbook/course notes: TBA
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Beginners
Tutor: Madeline Jenkins
Suitable for students with no experience of the language.
This course will introduce students to the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, and will explore the fundamentals of Middle Egyptian grammar and vocabulary. Students will have the opportunity to read short hieroglyphic inscriptions from a range of periods of Egyptian history.
Textbook: A hieroglyphic sign list will be made available to students by early December on the MALS website. Students may wish to purchase B. G. Ockinga, A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian: An Outline of Middle Egyptian Grammar 3rd edn (Mainz, 2012) as a reference tool.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Experienced Beginners
Tutor: Emily Gardner
Suitable for students who are returning to the study of Egyptian after some time or have completed the MALS beginners-level course or 1 unit of university-level Hieroglyphic Egyptian or equivalent (contact [email protected] if you require further advice).
This course continues the exploration of Middle Egyptian script, grammar, and vocabulary, including complementary readings from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.
Text: B. G. Ockinga, A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian: An Outline of Middle Egyptian Grammar 3rd edn (Mainz, 2012) as a reference tool. Course notes and materials will be made available on the Learning Materials page from early December.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Intermediate
Tutor: Kerry Peadon
Suitable for students with 2 units of university-level Hieroglyphic Egyptian or equivalent (contact [email protected] if you require further advice).
This course will include treatment of more advanced grammatical concepts integrated with a selection of guided readings.
Texts: A selection of texts from the Old Kingdom to the 26th Dynasty including the Book of the Dead (Chapter XXX) and the Stela of Amasis commemorating the burial of the Apis Bull. Texts will be made available on the Learning Materials page from early December.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Advanced
Tutor: Ellen Ryan
Suitable for students with 3–4 units of university-level Hieroglyphic Egyptian or equivalent (contact [email protected] if you require further advice).
This course provides guided reading of Middle Egyptian Texts.
Texts: A selection of biographical texts from the 18th Dynasty. See the Learning Materials page for a list of specific texts (available from early-December) and the texts to be read in class (from mid-December). Please note these texts are different from those studied in the 2019 Winter Week.
Hebrew Beginners
Tutor: Evie Handby
Suitable for students with no experience of the language.
This course introduces students to the Ancient Hebrew script and fundamental grammar and vocabulary.
Textbook: George Athas and Ian Young, Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar, 5th edn (Croydon Park, NSW: Ancient Vessel Press, 2016). This textbook is only available from https://reformers.org.au/
Text: Course notes will be made available on the Learning Materials page in early December.
Hebrew Intermediate
Tutor: Trevor Evans/Samuel Wessels
Suitable for students with 1-2 units of University-level Hebrew or equivalent.
This course consolidates student knowledge of the Ancient Hebrew script, fundamental grammar and vocabulary through reading of original texts.
Textbook: George Athas and Ian Young, Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar, 5th edn (Croydon Park, NSW: Ancient Vessel Press, 2016). This textbook is only available from https://reformers.org.au/
Texts: selections from the Hebrew Bible. Texts will be made available on the Learning Materials page in early December.