Languages

LANGUAGE STUDY

  • Ongoing self-study and reading in Classical and Homeric Greek, 2017-present.
  • Completed “Euripides’ Trojan Women” Greek reading course, Telepaideia, Spring 2023.
  • Completed “Sophocles’ Antigone” Greek reading course, Telepaideia, Fall 2022.
  • Completed “Sophocles’ Oedipus the King” Greek reading course, Telepaideia, Spring 2022.
  • Completed “Homer’s Odyssey” Greek reading course, Telepaideia, Fall 2021.
  • Audited “Homer’s Odyssey” (CLSG 305), Classics Department Greek reading course, Georgetown University, Spring, 2021.
  • Completed “Homer’s Iliad,” Greek reading course, Paideia Institute (Telepaideia), Fall 2020.
  • Audited “Readings in Greek Literature: Herodotus” (GREEK 306) course, UW-Milwaukee, Spring 2018.
  • Self-study of Homeric Greek, March-December, 2017.
  • Self study reviving German for reading, Fall 2016.
  • Passed Ph.D. reading exams in both German and French, Marquette University, 1985-1986.
  • Completed “Readings in Latin Literature” course (3 credits), Conception Seminary College, 1981.
  • Undergraduate language courses, Drake University and University of Iowa, 1973-1976.
    • Classics minor (Classical Greco-Roman languages, literature, culture, history, art & architecture, society, etc.)
    • Ancient Greek (20 credits): Introduction to Greek I and II (8 credits); Second-Year Greek I and II (6 credits); Homer and Hesiod (3 credits), New Testament Greek (3 credits).
    • Classical Latin (16 credits): Introduction to Latin I and II (8 credits); Intermediate Latin I and II (6 credits); Readings in Latin: Vulgate New Testament (2 credits).
    • Biblical Hebrew I and II (6 credits).

AWARDS

  • Frank O. Lowden Award for Translation of Classical Greek: University of Iowa, 1976.
  • Frank O. Lowden Award for Translation of Classical Latin: University of Iowa, 1976.