Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop: July 18-22, 2022
Moderators: Prof. Scott Farrington and Dr. Taylor Coughlan
Want to improve your reading fluency in Ancient Greek and learn more about ancient Greek culture? Please join us for the Dickinson Ancient Greek Workshop which will once again be held online this year. Though we’d prefer to welcome you all to campus, we hope that the greater flexibility of an online seminar will facilitate participation from people far and wide.
Marble head of an old fisherman (1st–2rd century A.D.
Roman, copy of a Greek statue of the late 2nd century B.C. Metropolitan Museum, New York)
This year’s text will be Lysias 24, On the Refusal of a Disability Benefit. Sometime in the early fourth century BCE, an Athenian citizen appeared before the Council to defend his qualifications to receive an annual state disability benefit. Revealing much about the treatment and status of non-elite citizens under democracy in Athens, the disabled pensioner delivers an innovative speech unique for its rhetorical use of humor. The defendant batters his opponent with sarcastic barbs and makes mockery of the entire legal affair. The Greek is accessible and lively. The text we will use is from a forthcoming Dickinson College Commentaries edition edited by Dr. Taylor Coughlan, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Participants will have pre-publication access to Taylor’s notes as well as to interpretive essays and complete running vocabulary lists. A dictionary should not be necessary, particularly if you have mastered the DCC core Ancient Greek vocabulary.
Meetings
Online meetings will take place daily from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Eastern time US, with break in the middle. We will determine whether we meet in one section or two based upon enrollment.
Reading Schedule (projected)
Monday, July 18: Lysias 24.1-5
Tuesday, July 19: Lysias 24.6-10
Wednesday, July 20: Lysias 24.11-15
Thursday, July 21: Lysias 24.16-21
Friday, July 22: Lysias 24.22-27
If we read at a faster pace, we will also read selections from other speeches of Lysias.
Registration Fee
$200, due by check on or before July 1, 2022. Make checks payable to Dickinson College and mail them to
Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College
c/o Stephanie Dyson
Carlisle, PA 17013