About the Book
One of the most successful Classical Greek introductory textbooks, this edition provides an introduction to Classical Greek with an encouraging, pleasant, and accessible presentation for today's modern students. Fifty short lessons presume no knowledge of Latin, and allow students to master a concept before moving on to the next. Each lesson is accompanied by numerous exercises, as well as manageable selections of Ancient Greek writings (edited in early chapters) from Aesop's most amusing and curious fables to concise Greek passages from The New Testament, Aristotle, Arrian, Demosthenes, Lysias, Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
The fourth edition of From Alpha to Omega retains all the features that have made it a best-selling introductory Greek textbook, many of them improved or expanded:
Balanced, evenly-paced lessons to accommodate various academic schedules
Brief readings from Ancient Greek authors
Efficient translation exercises
Succinct, instructive vocabulary lists
Glossary containing all vocabulary words from lessons and readings, both Greek-to-English, and English-to-Greek
Online exercises, audio recordings, video tutorials, and more accompany each chapter at courses.pullins.com.
An Ancillary Exercise Workbook and a Greek Reader are also available.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Preface ix Lesson 1 Introduction: The Greek Alphabet 1 Lesson 2 Introduction: The Greek Accents 9 Lesson 3 -Verbs: Present Active Indicative, Present Active Infinitive, Present Active Imperative 13 Lesson 4 First Declension: Feminine Nouns, Part 1 21 Lesson 5 First Declension: Feminine Nouns, Part 2 27 Lesson 6 -Verbs: Future Active Indicative, Future Active Infinitive 31 Lesson 7 Second Declension: Masculine Nouns 37 Lesson 8 Second Declension: Neuter Nouns; Adjectives: First/Second Declension 43 Lesson 9 First Declension: Masculine Nouns; Substantives 51 Lesson 10 -Verbs: Imperfect Active Indicative; Correlatives 57 Lesson 11 -Verbs: Middle/Passive Voice; Prepositions 63 Lesson 12 ? ??; Enclitics 71 Lesson 13 Demonstratives 77 Lesson 14 Personal Pronouns 83 Lesson 15 Contract Verbs (-?, -?, -?); Contracted Futures 87 Lesson 16 Third Declension: Stop, Liquid, and Nasal Stems 95 Lesson 17 Third Declension: Sigma Stems; Adjectives: Third Declension 101 Lesson 18 -Verbs: First Aorist Active and Middle Indicative, First Aorist Active and Middle Infinitives, First Aorist Active and Middle Imperatives 107 Lesson 19 -Verbs: Second Aorist Active and Middle Indicative, Second Aorist Active and Middle Infinitives, Second Aorist Active and Middle Imperatives; Reflexive Pronouns 115 Lesson 20 -Verbs: Perfect Active Indicative, Perfect Active Infinitive; Pluperfect Active Indicative 123 Lesson 21 Interrogative ? and Indefinite 131 Lesson 22 -Verbs: Perfect Middle/Passive Indicative, Perfect Middle/ Passive Infinitive; Pluperfect Middle/Passive Indicative 137 Lesson 23 Relative Pronouns; ?; Expressions of Time 145 v vi Lesson 24 -Verbs: Present Active Participle, Future Active Participle, First and Second Aorist Active Participles, Perfect Active Participle 153 Lesson 25 -Verbs: Present Middle/Passive Participle, Future Middle Participle, First and Second Aorist Middle Participles, Perfect Middle/Passive Participle 163 Lesson 26 Direct and Indirect Questions; Alternative Questions 171 Lesson 27 -Verbs: Aorist Passive Tense 181 Lesson 28 -Verbs: Future Passive Tense; Future Perfect Active and Middle/Passive Tenses; ? 189 Lesson 29 Third Declension: Vowel Stems, Syncopated Stems 195 Lesson 30 Deponent Verbs; Genitive Absolute; ? ?; ? ? ?/ ? ? 203 Lesson 31 Adverbs: Positive Degree; Result Clauses 211 Lesson 32 Adjectives and Adverbs: Comparative and Superlative Degrees; Genitive of Comparison; Partitive Genitive 219 Lesson 33 Adjectives and Adverbs: Irregular Comparative and Superlative Degrees; -, -? , - Adjectives; Dative of Degree of Difference 227 Lesson 34 Numerals 235 Lesson 35 Subjunctive Mood: Present, Aorist, Perfect Tenses; Active, Middle, Passive Voices; Independent Uses of the Subjunctive (Hortatory, Prohibitive, Deliberative) 243 Lesson 36 Optative Mood: Present, Future, Aorist, Perfect Tenses; Active, Middle, Passive Voices; Independent Uses of the Optative (Wishes, Potentiality) 253 Lesson 37 Conditions 263 Lesson 38 Conditional Relative Clauses; Relative Adverbs 271 Lesson 39 Purpose Clauses 279 Lesson 40 ? ?; Indirect Discourse (?/?) 285 Lesson 41 ?; Indirect Discourse (with infinitive) 295 Lesson 42 Indirect Discourse (with participle); Crasis 303 Lesson 43 More Uses of the Infinitive; ? 313 Lesson 44 Verbal Adjectives in -? and -? 321 Lesson 45 Clauses of Effort and Fear 329 Lesson 46 MI-Verbs ( ? , ?) 337 Lesson 47 MI-Verbs (?, ?) 347 Lesson 48 -Verbs ( ? ??); Unattainable Wishes 355 Lesson 49 ?, ?: Directional Suffixes; Accusative of Respect 363 Lesson 50 Redundant ?; Uses of ? ? & ? ?; Attraction of Relative Pronoun 371 Grammatical Appendix Nouns 381 Definite Article 385 vii Pronouns 385 Adjectives 389 Numerals 394 Adverbs 396 Verbs 397 Word Lists 441 English-to-Greek Glossary 457 Greek-to-English Glossary 485 Index 519
About the Author :
Anne H. Groton is Professor of Classics at St. Olaf College, where she has chaired the Department of Classics and directed the programs in Ancient Studies and Medieval Studies.
