A sequence of readings and lectures on Greek literature, from the late 5th century BCE to the Roman period.  Authors covered will include: Herodotus, Thucydides, Lysias, Demosthenes, Menander (Dyskolos), Plato (Gorgias), Aristotle (Rhetoric), Callimachus,Theocritus, Apollonius, Plutarch (Lives of Theseus, Antony), Lucian (Death of Peregrinus), St John's Gospel, Heliodorus. Each week about 1000 lines of poetry or 30 pages of prose will be assigned (to be read in Greek).