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Copyright

Philip S. Peek;

Published On

2025-03-31

Page Range

pp. 379–394

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

Module 48

Word Order: Scheppers’ Colon Hypothesis

  • Philip S. Peek (author)
Module 48 teaches that the colon is the intonation unit which Greek uses as the essential building block for creating sentences, contributing to a natural reading and enriched understanding of Ancient Greek. In Ancient Greek students read a selection from Lucian’s True Story (Ἀληθῆ Διηγήματα). Students practice parsing, practice identifying clitics and full words, and learn new vocabulary. James Patterson’s Reading Morphologically continues covering verb formation.

Contributors

Philip S. Peek

(author)
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics at Bowling Green State University

Philip S. Peek is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Civilization. He is interested in the stories we tell ourselves, those we tell each other, and how we interpret those told to us. He believes in many truths and many fictions and is amazed by how the false and true interact with each other. He is fascinated by creativity, translation, and the process of creating a dialogue between different cultures and time periods. He has published a two-volume elementary textbook on how to read and interpret Ancient Greek (Open Book Publishers, 2021, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0264, and 2024) and a textual commentary on book five of Herodotos’ Histories (U of O Press, 2018). He also has published in METAMORPHOSES three translations, the Alexis poem by Meleagros of Gadara (2019 Fall), Anakreon’s Thracian Filly poem (Spring 2020), and Meleagros’ poem, To A Bee (Spring 2020). He enjoys researching, teaching, translating, and writing about all things ancient Greek. When not at work, he may be found outside hiking, meditating, and enjoying the sounds of the multi-verse.