Panhellenic Humanities study plan

Parse and translate 20 lines of Homeric Greek per session, marking primary and secondary tenses and identifying at least three formulaic epithets

Conjugate the present and future indicative active of 15 regular Greek verbs from memory, then check against a lexicon and log every error

Decline 10 third-declension Greek nouns across all cases and both numbers without notes

Translate a 15-line Latin prose passage (Cicero or Caesar) and annotate every subordinate clause by type

Build a personal vocabulary deck of 150 Greek and Latin high-frequency words with principal parts or genitive stems

Scan and read aloud 40 lines of Greek iambic trimeter or dactylic hexameter, marking caesurae and resolving elisions

Identify the speaker, addressee, and rhetorical purpose in three Greek choral odes or speeches

Translate 30 lines of Latin verse (Vergil or Ovid) and mark every metrical foot in the first ten lines

Explain the difference between Greek and Latin handling of indirect statement using five of your own example sentences

Summarize the plot structure of one Greek tragedy and one Latin epic in 150 words each

Translate an unadapted Greek prose passage (Herodotus or Thucydides) in 45 minutes and self-score against a published translation

Map the sequence of events from the Persian Wars to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War on a single timeline with 12 dated entries

Compare how Herodotus and Thucydides treat causation by extracting one explanatory passage from each

Identify five rhetorical figures in a Greek speech and explain their persuasive function

Write a 200-word answer on why Greek historians wrote speeches into their narratives

Build a parallel timeline of Greek and Roman history from 500 BCE to 200 CE with 25 dated events

List the major Roman magistracies and their powers, then match each to a Greek equivalent where one exists

Explain the constitutional settlements of Augustus and the reforms of Cleisthenes in 150 words each

Identify five causes of the fall of the Roman Republic and rank them by explanatory weight

Summarize the historiographical method of Livy, Tacitus, and Polybius in one paragraph each

Outline the argument of Plato's Republic Books 1-7 in a 12-point skeleton with a key term for each point

Distinguish the Aristotelian four causes using five original examples

Explain the Epicurean and Stoic positions on pleasure and virtue and contrast them in 200 words

Describe the Roman practice of triumph and its political function, citing at least two sources

Trace how Roman historiography used Greek models by comparing one Livy preface with a Thucydides passage

Translate 40 lines of Latin prose and 20 lines of Latin verse under timed conditions (60 minutes total)

Explain the Roman reception of Greek philosophy by identifying five Latin philosophical terms and their Greek originals

Write 10 sight-translation vocabulary cards covering philosophical and scientific Latin

Compare Lucretius' De Rerum Natura with Epicurean doctrine in 200 words

Identify and correct your five most frequent translation errors from weeks 1-5

Identify the architectural orders and date five major monuments from photographs or descriptions without notes

Describe the development of Greek vase painting across three periods using specific diagnostic features

Explain how Roman building materials (concrete, brick, marble) shaped architectural form

Trace three specific ways Renaissance or later artists reused classical motifs, naming the works

Write a 250-word analysis of a single object as material evidence for its society

Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions and score each by domain

Re-drill every item missed on either practice exam until you can explain the correct answer without notes

Recite from memory 20 key dates, 20 key authors with one work each, and 15 key terms

Review your error logs from weeks 1-7 and rewrite the five concepts you still find weakest

Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation per domain and question-skipping rules