Ancient Greek was spoken not just in Athens and Sparta but also on the shores of the Black Sea, in Egypt, Sicily, and Spain. Ancient Greek is the language of the first philosophers, the first scientists, the first dramatists, as well as the New Testament. At the end of a single year of Greek, students can read these texts, and this course, combined with 1002, will prepare them to do so. In addition to studying grammar and word forms, students learn Greek by reading it in a text that starts simply and gradually increases in difficulty until they are reading authentic Plato and Greek historians late in the second semester. Most of the early adapted readings are important texts from Greek mythology, literature, philosophy, and history. Students thus learn both the Greek language and about the ancient Greek world.