2023 Winter 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 short readings and exercises will also be available for this course. Check our Learning Materials page from mid-June.
Ancient Greek Intermediate
Tutor: 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: Selections from literary and documentary sources (5th century BCE — 5th century CE) including Aristophanes and Babrius). Texts will be made available on our Learning Materials page from early June.
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: Lysias, For the Disable Man, Mantitheus, On the Murder of Erotosthenes, and Homer, Iliad III. Texts will be made available on our Learning Materials page from early June.
Koine Greek Intermediate/Advanced
Tutor: Gabriel Jower/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: Ostraca from the archive of Philokles (AM) and the Life of Aesop 1-2, 4-11 and related material (PM). Texts will be made available on our Learning Materials page from early June.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Beginners
Tutor: Pauline Stanton
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 June 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: TBA
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 June.
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: The Birth of the Royal Children (Westcar Papyrus), Selections from The Eloquent Peasant and the Semna Stela of Senuseret III. Texts will be made available on the Learning Materials page from early June.
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: TBA. Texts will be available on our Learning Materials Page from early June.
Latin Beginners
Tutor: Philip Brophy
Suitable for students with no previous knowledge of the language.
This course introduces students to the grammar and vocabulary of Classical Latin, the language of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil.
Textbook: ILL. This textbook will be emailed to enrolled students from early June.
Latin Experienced Beginners
Tutor: Andrew Gollan
Suitable for students with 1-2 units of University-level Latin or students who have completed the MALS Beginners course.
This course continues to introduce students to the grammar and vocabulary of Classical Latin, the language of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil.
Textbook: ILL. This textbook will be emailed to enrolled students from early June.
Latin Intermediate
Tutor: Sarah McAliece
Suitable for students with 2-3 units of University-level Latin or equivalent. 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.
Textbook: Selections from Cicero, Pro Caelio and Martial, Epigrams. Texts will be made available to students on our Learning Materials page from early June.
Latin Advanced
Tutor: Christopher Haddad
Suitable for students with 3 or more units of University-level Latin or equivalent.
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.
Textbook: Plautus and selections from early Latin including Ennius and the Twelve Tables. Texts will be made available to students on our Learning Materials page from early June.