GR 490 Introduction to Byzantine Greek Language and Literature
This course will introduce advanced-level students of classical Greek to Byzantine literature. By studying different texts each week, students will become familiar with a millennium of Byzantine history, and with a society that was profoundly interested in the relationship between faith and reason on both political and theological levels. Participants will be introduced to the main features of medieval Greek, with a particular stress on its differences from classical Greek; read a selection of texts (hagiography / religious literature, poems and/or profane literature, historiography and philosophy) representative of the variety of medieval Greek literature and of the many possibilities it offers; and receive an orientation in some of the principal areas of medieval Greek scholarship, including lexica, bibliographies, and leading collections and repertories of sources.
Cross Listed Courses
GR 490 &
GR 590