ANCIENT VOICES THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND Class Programme 2023 Term Two April - June CONTENTS Welcome 0 1 CAS Ancient Voices Team 0 2 Ancient Voices Overview 0 3 Evening Classes Evening Classes Introduction 0 4 Post - Beginners’ Latin 0 7 Post - Beginners’ Ancient Greek 0 9 Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian 11 Sexual Exploitation in Ancient Greece & Rome 14 Ancient Slavery in its Mediterranean Context 16 Magic in the Ancient Greek World 18 The classically - inspired National Monument of Scotland, Calton Hill, Edinburgh Ancient Voices began life as the CAS Greek & Latin Summer School in 2019. Like so many other initiatives, the coronavirus pandemic meant that we were forced to cancel our 2020 summer school and move all our outreach efforts online. Over 2020 and into 2021, CAS offered a range of free online taster sessions.These sessions opened Scottish - based Classics outreach to a global audience, with the consequence that we decided to switch our newly - dubbed Ancient Voices programme to an online footing permanently. Our 2021 online Ancient Voices programme added Hebrew and Hieroglyphs for beginners as formal options for the first time. Not satisfied to rest on our laurels, however, we determined to add yet more options to the line - up. Our 2022 summer school therefore offered Greek and Latin at all levels; Hebrew; Hieroglyphs;Aramaic and Sumerian.There is clearly an appetite for ancient subjects out there, and so from 2023, the summer programme will be joined by a catalogue of Ancient Voices Evening Classes in a selection of subjects. As a component in CAS' wider outreach and public engagement strategy, the guiding ethos for Ancient Voices has always been accessibility.We are aware that Classics is a discipline which bears the legacy of historical inequity, one result of which is an ongoing disparity in access to the subject matter for learners across varied communities.We want the global Classics community to be so much more than simply those attached to prestigious research centres : whether you are a professional in the discipline, a student or an interested amateur, we believe there is room for you to enjoy Classics and make your own meaningful contributions to the subject. CAS Ancient Voices Team Edinburgh, January 2023 Welcome to the Ancient Voices Programme Sam is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History at the University of Aberdeen. She a co - founder of the Ancient Voices programme , and has personally taken a leading role in teaching Greek and Latin classes as part of the summer school. Aside from her work in Classics, Sam is a very keen distance runner. CAS Ancient Voices Team Dr Sam Newington Prof. Tom Harrison Dr Alex Imrie Tom is Keeper of Greek and Roman Collections at the British Museum. He is the Chair of CAS, and has overseen much of the association's attempts to redefine itself as an organisation not only devoted to furthering the study of antiquity in Scotland's university cities, but to expanding the subject to communities all over the country. Alex is a Tutor in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He is a co - founder of the Ancient Voices programme and has, since 2017, been the National Outreach Co - Ordinator for CAS. Outside academia, Alex is a keen board - gamer, ceilidh dancer and budding tartan designer. 2 The Ancient Voices team is fortunate to work with a range of skilled educators at different stages in their academic careers: from recently - minted doctoral students through to schoolteachers, tutors in Continuing Education and faculty members at universities in Scotland and beyond. Each of our tutors are selected for their dedication to the teaching and accessibility of Classics. ANCIENT VOICES 2023 Details of our courses for 2023 can be found over the following pages, but our programme includes the following: TERM ONE (9 th January 2023 – 19 th March 2023) In our first term, we offered a range of language and cultural courses suitable for absolute beginners. Like all our courses, these were designed to be friendly and accessible entry points to the subject matter, while still being intellectually rigorous. Our second term language modules are designed in part to offer progression from these courses. TERM TWO (3 rd April 2023 – 11 th June 2023) - Post - Beginners’ Latin (10wks) - Post - Beginners’ Ancient Greek (10wks) - Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian (10wks) - Sexual Exploitation in Ancient Greece & Rome (8wks) - Ancient Slavery in its Mediterranean Context (8wks ) - Magic in the Ancient Greek World (8wks) SUMMER SCHOOL (10 th July 2023 – 13 th August 2023) All courses in our Summer School are 4 weeks in duration, and follow our successful programme of offering accessible in - roads to beginners and challenging refreshers to those with more experience, at times designed to fit around work and life commitments, and at an affordable price.We hope to supplement our regular Greek and Latin offerings with even more options this year.This programme will also be released in January 2023. 3 EVENING CLASSES 2023 Starting in January 2023, CAS will be offering a range of evening classes, covering ancient languages and non - language topics. Theses classes can be studied individually or (in the case of our Greek and Latin courses) studied sequentially to take learners from an absolute beginner level to a predetermined ability level. Courses last 10 Weeks in the case of language classes and 8 weeks in the case of non - language options. All classes will be delivered online (Zoom), with an expectation of some self - directed study between sessions. The cost of our courses will include access to tutors by email and a range of pre - prepared resources for use during classes. Textbooks may be recommended by our tutors, but are not compulsory purchases. Extract from the so - called Laudatio Turiae , ILS 8393 4 EVENING CLASSES 2023 5 TERM ONE Timetable Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 17.30 - 19.00: Sexual Exploitation in Ancient Greece & Rome 17.30 - 19.30: Post - Beginners’ Ancient Greek 17.30 - 19.30: Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian 17.30 - 19.00: Ancient Slavery in its Mediterranean Context 18.00 - 20.00: Post - Beginners’ Latin NO CLASSES SCHEDULED 17.30 - 19.00: Ancient Magic EVENING CLASSES 2023 COSTINGS The Ancient Voices programme is committed to offering a high quality learning experience at an accessible price point: we do not believe that anyone should be prevented from studying the ancient world on financial grounds.We believe that we have achieved a balance of accessibility for the learner, while ensuring that our tutors and course leaders are fairly recompensed for their time, effort and expertise. EVENING CLASSES The costs for our evening classes are as follows: Language Classes Our language classes are priced at £120.00 This rate includes: • Ten weeks of tuition (2hrs per week) • Selected digitised resources • Access to tutors via email for enquiries, questions & follow up Non - Language Classes Our non - language classes are priced at £65.00 This rate includes: • Eight weeks of tuition (1.5hrs per week) • Selected digitised resources • Access to tutors via email for enquiries, questions & follow up 6 Post - Beginner’s Latin 7 Wednesday 18.00 - 20.00 Course Tutor: Sarah Wolstencroft SYNOPSIS This 10 - week course will build on the grammar and topics covered in the first term to enable students to understand more complex passages of Latin text. More advanced grammatical forms and constructions will be introduced and students will have the opportunity to consolidate and expand their knowledge of Latin while translating longer passages adapted from original texts. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, students will: 1. Have the ability to comprehend and analyse the syntactical structure of more complex passages of Latin. 2. Identify (and have a good command) of some of the advanced principles of Latin grammar. 3. Be able to independently read unseen passages adapted from original Latin texts. BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS As with our beginners’ unit, it would be useful to have access to a beginner’s dictionary such as the Collins Latin Dictionary and Grammar Post - Beginners’ Latin 7 WEEK CONTENT WEEK 1 Pluperfect tense Future perfect tense Irregular verbs: eo and fero WEEK 2 The passive voice: present tense Comparative and superlative adjectives Ablative of comparison Irregular comparatives and superlatives WEEK 3 The passive voice: future and imperfect tense Introducing participles: present active WEEK 4 Perfect passive participles Irregular verbs: malo , nolo and volo Place and time constructions WEEK 5 Recap of weeks 1 - 4 Perfect passive tense Pluperfect passive WEEK 6 Ablative absolute Dative of agent Dative with certain verbs WEEK 7 Introducing the subjunctive Present subjunctive Jussive subjunctive WEEK 8 Imperfect subjunctive Purpose clauses Result clauses WEEK 9 Perfect and pluperfect subjunctive Indirect questions WEEK 10 Recap 5 - 10 Conditionals Post Beginners’ Ancient Greek SYNOPSIS This Post - Beginners course aims at advancing the language skills of students with some prior knowledge of Greek; command of the basic principles of the Greek grammar is required (especially main verb tenses — present, imperfect, future, aorist — in the indicative, declensions of nouns) revisions of the material covered in the Beginners course will be offered at the Post - Beginners course). Students will be introduced to the remaining tenses (perfect, pluperfect), moods (optative, subjunctive) and the passive voice. Particular attention will be paid to principal parts of verbs, subordinate clauses, and more complex grammatical constructions. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, students will: 1) H ave the ability to comprehend and analyse the syntactical structure of complex Greek sentences. 2) H ave a good command of most principles of Greek grammar. be able to read independently short unseen prosaic passages of intermediate difficulty BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Reading Greek:Text and Vocabulary, 2nd edition, Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Cambridge University Press (2007). [Please note: this refers to the Text and Vocabulary volume ONLY, and not to the Grammar and Exercises volume or any other books in the same series] The book pages corresponding to the grammar covered each week in class will be provided for — optional — independent study. Friday 17.30 - 19.30 Course Tutor: Manos Tsakiris 9 Post - Beginners’ Ancient Greek WEEK CONTENT WEEK 1 Verbs: Revision in Tenses (Present, Imperfect, Future, Aorist). Introduction to Optative. Causal Clauses Nouns: Revision in First and Second Declensions χράομαι WEEK 2 Verbs: Root Aorists Uses of Future Infinitives Nouns: Revision in First/Second Declension Adjectives WEEK 3 Verbs: Perfect and Pluperfect Tense Relative Pronouns. Relative Clauses. Indirect Questions. Nouns: Revision in Third Declension Pt. 1 Adjectives: mixed 1 st /3 rd declension ( ἡ δύς ) Principal Parts: λέγω WEEK 4 Verbs: Passive Voice. Genitive absolute construction Verbs/Clauses of Precaution Nouns: Revision in Third Declension Pt. 2 Principal Parts: γιγνώσκω , ἐ ρωτάω WEEK 5 Verbs: Introduction to Subjunctive. Uses of Subjunctive (Exhortations, Prohibitions). Result Clauses ἵ στημι , ἵ ημι Principal Parts: φέρω , α ἰ ρέω , - o μαι , πάσχω WEEK 6 Conditional Clauses Pt. 1 Revision in Prepositions. WEEK 7 Temporal Clauses (esp. πρίν + infinitive) Conditional Clauses Pt. 2 WEEK 8 Indefinite constructions. Indefinite Clauses. Habitual Conditions. Revision of Conditionals. WEEK 9 Fear Clauses. Purpose Clauses. Gerundives. WEEK 10 Indirect Commands. Revision. Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian Tuesday 17.30 - 19.30 Course Tutor: Max Stocker SYNOPSIS Building on Middle Egyptian for Absolute Beginners , this intensive language - based course takes Elementary - level students through all the remaining parts of speech within Middle Egyptian grammar, as well as numbers, questions, and the Egyptian dating system. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, students will: 1. Understand the grammar and syntax of all the parts of speech in Middle Egyptian. 2. Have a good command of all the most basic aspects of Middle Egyptian grammar. 3. B e able to read lengthier sentences and a wider range of inscriptions independently BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Allen, J.P. (2014), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs , Third Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2. Faulkner, R.O . (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute. 11 Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian WEEK CONTENT WEEK 1 Review of first - semester content Nominal sentences WEEK 2 Prepositions 17 primary prepositions Compound prepositions – 3 categories The object of prepositions WEEK 3 Prepositional nisbes – forms and uses Reverse nisbes Prepositional phrases as modifiers Adverbs – 4 categories Uses of adverbs Comparative and superlative adverbs WEEK 4 Numbers Cardinal numbers Ordinal numbers Use of numbers Fractions Weights and measures WEEK 5 The Egyptian dating system The Egyptian calendar Elite titles and epithets 12 Post - Beginners’ Middle Egyptian WEEK CONTENT WEEK 6 Adverbial sentences Particles WEEK 7 Maat and Egyptian cosmology Adjectival, nominal, and adverbial sentences – more features Negation of non - verbal sentences WEEK 8 Questions Verbs Radicals, roots, and stems Irregular verbs Tense, aspect, mood, voice WEEK 9 The infinitive – forms Subject of the infinitive Object of the infinitive Word order Nominalised infinitive Other uses WEEK 10 The sDm - pw ir.n =f and sDm - pw iry constructions The negative infinitive and the negatival complement The complementary infinitive 13 Sexual Exploitation in Ancient Greece & Rome Monday 18.00 - 19.30 Course Tutor: Natalia Tsoumpra SYNOPSIS The course explores how various Greek and Roman writers created and normalized, but also occasionally problematized, narratives of sexual abuse, and invites a reflection upon the political, social, and legal implications of non - consensual sexual activity in antiquity. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, students will: • Explore key sources, textual and archaeological, for the study of ancient sex work and rape • Examine ancient stories of sexual exploitation in the context of modern feminist theories (e.g. commodification and control theory) • Reflect upon the social, political, and legal implications of non - consensual sexual intercourse in antiquity • Assess the social, political and legal role of sex work and rape in the ancient communities BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Deacy , S. and Pierce, C. (eds.). 2002. Rape in antiquity , London. 2. Omitowoju , R. 2002. Rape and the politics of consent in classical Athens , Cambridge. 14 Sexual Exploitation in Ancient Greece & Rome WEEK CONTENT WEEK 1 Introduction: ancient and modern ideas about sexuality and gender; feminism, sex work, and sexual abuse. WEEK 2 The symposium: lyric poetry and sympotic vases. WEEK 3 Rape and misogyny: Euripides' Hippolytus and Ion [extracts]. WEEK 4 Toxic masculinity: fantasies of rape in Aristophanes' comedies [extracts]. WEEK 5 Rape, prostitution, and the law: extracts from Lysias On the murder of Eratosthenes and [Demosthenes] Against Neaira WEEK 6 Male prostitution and ideas about the male body: extracts from Aeschines Against Timarchos , Demosthenes Against Conon , Lysias Against Simon. WEEK 7 The normalization of rape? New Greek and Roman Comedy (extracts from Menander’s Epitrepontes , Samia , and Perikeiromene ; Terence’s Eunuch ). WEEK 8 The fetishization of sexual abuse: extracts from Ovid's Amores and Metamorphoses 15 Ancient Slavery in its Mediterranean Context Thursday 17.30 - 19.00 Course Tutor: Juan Lewis SYNOPSIS This module presents a history of ancient slavery which is not constrained by culture and civilization boundaries. Instead, it approaches the Mediterranean and the adjacent civilisations it was connected to (the Black Sea, the Red Sea and India, Northern Europe, the Sahara, etc.) as a complex and integrated world - market in which different slave systems and other forms of labour exploitation co - existed and were intertwined with each other. The module combines the study of the institution in different polities and civilisations, the evolution of trade routes, the different forms of slavery and manumission adopted, and its transformations from the Archaic Era to Late Antiquity. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. G eneral knowledge of different forms slavery adopted in the ancient Mediterranean 2. G amiliarity with the theoretical and conceptual discussions on the evolution of free and un - free labour in antiquity 3. G eneral acquaintance with the nature of the evidence on ancient Mediterranean slavery and the issues related to its reconstruction and analysis 4. C ompetence in the use of the comparative method with regard to legal concepts such as status, property, manumission, etc BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Harper, K ( 2011 ) Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275 - 425 , Cambridge Hunt, P ( 2018 ) Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery , Hoboken (NJ) Lewis, D. (2018) Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800 - 146 BC, Oxford. 16 Ancient Slavery in its Mediterranean Context WEEK CONTENT WEEK 1 General introduction: definitions WEEK 2 The universal institution: the co - existence of different forms of free and un - free labour in the ancient Mediterranean. WEEK 3 War, trade, and breeding: the conditions that made a self - reproductive system possible; a comparative approach. WEEK 4 Slave labour and its socio - economic location in different ancient societies. WEEK 5 Slave agency: slaves as entrepreneurs, courtiers, managers, agents, and civil servants. WEEK 6 Stability and fragility of the institution: resistance, rebellion, and compliance. WEEK 7 Open and closed slave systems: violence, protection, and manumission practices. WEEK 8 The break - up of the Mare Nostrum and its impact on slavery. 17 Magic in the Ancient Greek World Sunday 17.30 - 19.00 Course Tutor: Sam Newington SYNOPSIS This course will explore magic in the ancient Greek world from 8 th century BCE to the mid classical era. This module will focus on the following areas: practitioners of magic, potions, curses and how magic may be understood within the cultural context of medicine and religion. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After the successful completion of this course, it is envisaged that students will have acquired : a. Analytical skills concerning primary and secondary sources b. Ability to draw upon the theoretical and methodological considerations associated with the field of study c. Appreciation of ancient Greek magic and comparative contexts BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Dickie, M., Magic and Magicians in the Greco - Roman World (London: Psychology Press, 2003) Eidinow , E., Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Evans - Pritchard, E.E., Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937) Graf, F., Magic in the Ancient World, trans. Franklin Phillip (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) 18