Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium

Content: Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Readings and Notes --
Reading 1 The Frame --
Reading 1A --
Reading 1B --
Reading 2 The Drinking Party --
Reading 2A --
Reading 2B --
Reading 2C --
Reading 3 The Speech of Phaedrus --
Reading 3A --
Reading 3B --
Reading 4 Pausanias\'s Purified Pederasty --
Reading 4A --
Reading 4B --
Reading 5 Scientific and Medical Conceptions of Love: The Speech of the Doctor Eryximachus --
Reading 5A --
Reading 5B --
Reading 6 Aristophanes\' Comic Myth --
Reading 6A --
Reading 6B --
Reading 6C --
Reading 6D --
Reading 6E --
Reading 7 A Tragic Oration --
Reading 7A --
Reading 7B --
Reading 7C --
Reading 7D --
Reading 8 Plain-Speaking: Socrates Responds --
Reading 8A --
Reading 8B --
Reading 9 A Woman Speaks: Diotima\'s Erotic Wisdom --
Reading 9A --
Reading 9B --
Reading 9C --
Reading 9D --
Reading 9E --
Reading 9F --
Reading 9G --
Reading 9H --
Reading 9I --
Reading 9J. Reading 10 Socrates as Satyr: Alcibiades\' Drunken Satyr-Play --
Reading 10A --
Reading 10B --
Reading 10C --
Reading 10D --
Reading 10E --
Reading 10F --
Reading 10G --
Reading 10H --
Reading 11 The End of the Symposium --
pt. 2 Review Exercises --
Review Exercise 1A --
a. Indirect statement with infinitive --
b. Participle forms --
c. Circumstantial, supplementary, and substantival participles --
d. Verb drills: & mu
 & epsilon
 & nu
 & omega
, & pi
 & upsilon
 & nu
 & theta
 & alpha
 & nu
 & mu
 & alpha
 & iota
 and & alpha
 & Chi
 & upsilon
 & omega
 --
Review Exercise 1B --
a. Genitive absolute --
b. Relative clauses --
c. Challenge passages --
Review Exercise 2A --
a. Common independent uses of the subjunctive: hortatory, prohibitive, deliberative --
b. Common dependent uses of the subjunctive: & alpha
 & nu
 in generalizing or indefinite clauses, in purpose clauses, in fear (for the future) clauses --
c. Verb drills: & lambda
 & epsilon
 & gamma
 & omega
 and & alpha
 & gamma
 & omega
 --
d. Sight-reading: an edifying tale from Aesop. E. Challenge passages --
Review Exercise 2B --
a. Sight-reading: ancient quotations on wine, water, and drinking --
b. Optative replacing subjunctive in secondary sequence: purpose clauses, fear clauses, generalizations about the past --
c. Optative in indirect statements and questions in secondary sequence --
d. Independent uses of the optative: wishes, potential optative --
e. Verb drills: & pi
 & nu
 & omega
 and & epsilon
 & Sigma
 & theta
 & iota
 & omega
 --
Review Exercise 2C --
a. Indicative + & alpha
 & nu
 --
b. Subjunctive + & alpha
 & nu
 --
c. Optative + & alpha
 & nu
 --
d. Challenge passages: mixed constructions --
e. Verb drills: & alpha
 & omega
, & alpha
 & iota
 & epsilon
 & omega
, and & epsilon
 & Chi
 & mu
 & alpha
 & iota
 --
Review Exercise 3 --
a. Common uses of the accusative, especially accusatives of respect --
b. Common uses of the genitive --
c. Challenge passages --
Review Exercise 4 --
a. Common uses of the dative. B. Result clauses --
c. Uses of the infinitive --
d. Challenge passages --
Review Exercise 5 --
a. Uses of & omega
 & sigma
 --
b. Verbal adjectives in & tau
 & epsilon
 & sigma
 --
c. Challenge passages --
d. Verb drills: & pi
 & iota
 & pi
 & tau
 & omega
 and & phi
 & epsilon
 & omega
 --
Review Exercise 6 --
a. Accusative absolute --
b. Fear clauses: subjunctive and optative (fears for the future) --
c. Numbers --
d. Challenge passage --
Appendixes --
1. Major Characters in the Symposium --
2. Time Line of Events Relevant to the Symposium --
3. Seating Arrangement at Agathon\'s Symposium --
4. Structure of the Symposium.