About the course: In this course, we use Plato's elegant and fun dialogue, the Symposium, to transition towards an intermediate command of ancient Greek.
About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017).
Follow the link to Johnson's web site by clicking here.
About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017).
Follow the link to Johnson's web site by clicking here.
The fresco painting above is from the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum (a Greek site south of Naples in Campania, Italy), showing men at a symposium, reclining and playing a game (kottabos). For images of the entire room for these extraordinary paintings, click here.