Tutor information
Anna Athanasopoulou
Anna studied Classics at the University of Athens, including a semester in Paris, France, before pursuing her postgraduate studies in the UK. She earned her MA from UCL and a PhD from Magdalene College, Cambridge. Currently, she supervises papers in Greek and Latin language and literature for the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge and teaches for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. She has also previously taught a postgraduate course on Greek philosophical language at UCL. Her research interests encompass Imperial Greek literature (1st-5th c. C.E.), ancient and modern ecphrastic writing, text/image theories, as well as embodied, sensory, and ecocritical approaches to Classics.
Courses
Ancient Greek is the language of Homer, Sophocles, Plato, the New Testament and many other texts. This class is for students who have either completed Ancient Greek 1 or have prior knowledge of Ancient Greek from elsewhere.
We gradually move from reading simplified texts (as in AG1) to analysing original passages from some of the greatest ancient Greek authors, tackling challenging grammatical and syntactical structures and learning about ancient Greek thought and culture.
The course focuses on analysing original passages from some of the greatest ancient Greek authors, tackling some challenging grammatical and syntactical phenomena and learning about ancient Greek culture and thought.