Ancient 2nd grade Secondary School

Ancient Greek is the language in which the texts of our ancient cultural heritage are written. As a lesson in the classroom, it tries to teach the life of the ancient Greek culture in the various aspects of everyday life as well as great works by leading authors. The dialectical relationship between student and lesson is the goal, and to achieve this, the lesson must be presented appropriately and in a well-structured way.

If the lesson begins to be taught methodically from the beginning of its teaching in the first grade of high school, without creating gaps that can be transferred from class to class, the ancients can become an educational lesson with words like "freedom", "democracy", "Ethics" and "law" to function as invaluable values ​​of human life. The course is taught through the systematic study of texts from translation, which come mainly from two literary genres, the epic and the tragedy, and secondarily from the historiography and the philosophical discourse, while at the same time the morphology of the ancient Greek language is approached through analysis of texts from the original. .

Course goal

• To identify the communication context of each text (persons, space, time, socio-cultural mood of each era)
• Approach the text semantically and utilize any information
• Utilize the vocabulary of the texts in the use of both ancient Greek and modern, learning their roots and origin
• Recognize grammatical and syntactic phenomena in the sentence and use their knowledge productively
• To be able to utilize the function of intertextuality (texts with similar content), reading parallel sources and identifying the points where the texts converge and diverge through critical thinking.

"If you understand the past, you can better construct the present and build a hopeful future."