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Introduction to Greek, Second Edition is an introductory text to Classical Greek. It is designed for the first full year course and it concentrates on the basics in a way that allows the material to be covered easily in courses that meet three times a week over the course of two semesters. The focus of the text is on grammar with slightly altered readings drawn chiefly from the works of Xenophon and Herodotus.

Table of Contents:
Preface xiii CHAPTER 1 1 1. The Greek alphabet 1 2. Consonant groups 2 3. Vowel groups (diphthongs) 2 4. Accents 3 5. Breathings 4 6. Punctuation and capital letters 4 CHAPTER 2 7 1. Verb formation: principal parts 7 2. The present active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 8 3. Verb accents 9 4. The negative omicron? 10 5. Common conjunctions 10 Chapter 2 Vocabulary 11 CHAPTER 3 13 1. Noun formation 13 2. The definite article 13 3. Feminine nouns of the 1st declension 14 4. Noun and adjective accents 15 5. Accents of 1st declension nouns 15 6. Prepositions 16 7. The future active indicative of thematic verbs (2nd principal part) 17 Chapter 3 Vocabulary 18 CHAPTER 4 19 1. The paradigm of the definite article 19 2. Masculine nouns of the 1st declension 19 3. The imperfect active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 20 4. Some uses of the definite article 21 5. Verbs taking genitive or dative 21 Chapter 4 Vocabulary 22 CHAPTER 5 23 1. Masculine and feminine nouns of the 2nd declension 23 2. The aorist active indicative of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) 23 3. Aspect in the indicative 24 4. Word order 25 5. The possessive genitive 26 Chapter 5 Vocabulary 27 CHAPTER 6 29 1. Neuter nouns of the 2nd declension 29 2. Some uses of the dative 30 3. The present active infinitive of thematic verbs 30 4. The complementary infinitive 31 5. Reading expectations 31 6. The negatives omicron? and mu? 31 Chapter 6 Vocabulary 32 CHAPTER 7 33 1. 1st and 2nd declension adjectives 33 2. Attributive adjectives 34 3. Predicate adjectives and nouns 34 4. Enclitics 35 5. The present indicative and infinitive of epsilon?mu?, 'be' 36 6. The dative of possession 37 Chapter 7 Vocabulary 38 CHAPTER 8 39 1. 3rd declension nouns 39 2. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -kappa, -tau 40 3. The present active imperative, 2nd person, of thematic verbs and epsilon?mu? 40 4. Connection 41 5. mu?nu and delta? 42 READING: Underground Dwellings 44 Chapter 8 Vocabulary 44 CHAPTER 9 45 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -tau, -delta, -theta 45 2. alpha?tau?sigmaf, intensive use 46 3. alpha?tau?sigmaf as personal pronoun 46 4. alpha?tau?sigmaf, attributive use 47 5. Elision 48 6. omicron??sigmaf tau? epsilon?muiota 49 READING: Cyrus Is Helped by Camels 49 Chapter 9 Vocabulary 50 CHAPTER 10 51 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -nutau, -kappatau 51 2. The future and imperfect indicative of epsilon?mu?, 'be' 52 3. The relative pronoun 52 READING: The Battle of Thermopylae 54 Chapter 10 Vocabulary 55 CHAPTER 11 57 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -rho 57 2. Syllabic and temporal augments 58 3. Augments of compound verbs 58 4. Principal parts of palatal stem thematic verbs 60 5. The strong aorist active indicative of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) 61 READING: Xerxes Whips the Sea 63 Chapter 11 Vocabulary 64 CHAPTER 12 65 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -nu 65 2. More uses of the article 66 3. Compounds of epsilon?mu?, 'be' 66 4. Conditions 67 5. Simple conditions 68 6. Contrary-to-fact conditions 68 READING: Admetus and Alcestis 70 Chapter 12 Vocabulary 71 CHAPTER 13 73 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -sigma 73 2. Principal parts of dental stem thematic verbs 74 3. The future and aorist active infinitives of thematic verbs 75 4. Infinitive aspect 76 5. The infinitive as a verbal noun; the articular infinitive 76 READING: The Wooden Wall 78 Chapter 13 Vocabulary 79 CHAPTER 14 81 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -iota, -upsilon 81 2. Principal parts of labial stem verbs 82 3. nuomicronmu?zetaomega and phietamu? 83 4. Indirect statement 84 5. The infinitive in indirect statement 84 READING: The Ten Thousand Reach the Sea 87 Chapter 14 Vocabulary 88 CHAPTER 15 89 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in diphthongs 89 2. The present and imperfect passive indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 90 3. The genitive of personal agent 91 4. Irregular 3rd declension nouns 92 5. The aorist passive indicative of thematic verbs (6th principal part) 92 6. The future passive indicative of thematic verbs (6th principal part) 93 READING: The Cunning of Artemisia 95 Chapter 15 Vocabulary 96 Review of Principal Parts 97 CHAPTER 16 99 1. mu?gammaalphasigmaf, piomicronlambda?sigmaf and adjectives of the tau?lambdaalphasigmaf type 99 2. Regular comparison of adjectives 100 3. Comparison with ? and the genitive of comparison 101 4. Some uses of the genitive 102 5. Some uses of the dative 102 READING: How The Egyptians Avoided Gnats 104 Chapter 16 Vocabulary 104 CHAPTER 17 105 1. The middle voice: meaning 105 2. The middle voice: formation 106 3. Review of middle future forms 107 4. Some uses of the accusative 108 5. Time expressions 110 READING: Victory In Bad Weather 111 Chapter 17 Vocabulary 112 CHAPTER 18 113 1. Active imperatives of thematic verbs 113 2. Imperatives of epsilon?mu?, 'be' 114 3. Future and aorist middle and passive infinitives of thematic verbs 114 4. The future infinitive of epsilon?mu?, 'be' 115 5. Personal pronouns, 1st and 2nd persons 116 6. Possessive adjectives, 1st and 2nd persons 116 READING: Double Dealings of Themistocles 118 Chapter 18 Vocabulary 119 CHAPTER 19 121 1. Contract verbs 121 2. Contract verbs in -epsilonomega 121 3. Impersonal deltaepsilon? 122 4. Contract verbs in -alphaomega 123 5. Contract verbs in -omicronomega 125 6. Contract nouns and adjectives 126 READING: Xerxes and the Helmsman 127 Chapter 19 Vocabulary 128 CHAPTER 20 129 1. Adjectives of the sigma?phirhoomeganu and ?lambdaetatheta?sigmaf types 129 2. Adjectives of the ?delta?sigmaf type 130 3. The adjective pi?sigmaf 131 4. The liquid future (2nd principal part 131 5. The liquid aorist (3rd principal part 132 6. Review of liquid future and aorist forms 132 READING: Polycrates and the Ring 1: Advice from Amasis 134 Chapter 20 Vocabulary 135 CHAPTER 21 137 1. Participles 137 2. The present active participle in -omeganu (1st principal part) 137 4. The circumstantial participle 139 5. Further notes on participles 140 6. The future active participle (2nd principal part) 141 7. The aorist active participle (3rd principal part) 141 READING: Polycrates and the Ring 2: Destiny Is Destiny 143 Chapter 21 Vocabulary 144 CHAPTER 22 145 1. Present middle / passive participles (1st principal part) 145 2. Future and aorist middle participles (2nd and 3rd principal parts) 147 3. Aorist and future passive participles (6th principal part) 147 4. The genitive absolute 148 5. Further comparison of adjectives in -tauepsilonrhoomicronsigmaf, -taualphatauomicronsigmaf 149 READING: The Ingenuity of Cyrus 150 Chapter 22 Vocabulary 151 CHAPTER 23 153 1. Athematic (-muiota) verbs 153 2. Athematic (-muiota) verbs, 1st principal part 153 3. Athematic (-muiota) verbs, 3rd principal part 156 4. Further comparison of adjectives in -(?)omeganu, -(iota)sigmatauomicronsigmaf 158 5. Declension of comparatives in -(?)omeganu 159 READING: Crocodiles 160 Chapter 23 Vocabulary 161 CHAPTER 24 163 1. Reflexive pronouns 163 2. Direct and indirect reflexives 164 3. The reciprocal pronoun 164 4. Questions 165 5. Demonstrative pronouns / adjectives 166 6. tauomicroniotaomicron?tauomicronsigmaf, tauomicronsigmaomicron?tauomicronsigmaf 167 READING: A Strange Rescue 168 Chapter 24 Vocabulary 169 CHAPTER 25 171 1. The subjunctive mood 171 2. The subjunctive of thematic and athematic (-muiota) verbs 171 3. Exhortations 173 4. The deliberative subjunctive 173 5. Prohibitions 174 6. gamma?gammanuomicronmualphaiota 174 READING: Aristagoras and His Map 175 Chapter 25 Vocabulary 176 CHAPTER 26 177 1. The optative mood 177 2. The optative of regular thematic verbs 177 3. The optative of contract verbs 178 4. The optative of athematic (-muiota) verbs 179 5. The potential optative 180 6. Wishes 180 READING: Marathon 1: Vain Appeal to Sparta 182 READING: Marathon 2: The Battle 182 Chapter 26 Vocabulary 183 CHAPTER 27 185 1. Sequence of moods 185 2. Purpose (final) clauses 185 3. The future participle to express purpose 186 4. omicron?deltaalpha 187 5. Irregular strong aorists 189 6. Supplementary participles in indirect statement 190 7. Indirect statement with ?tauiota or ?sigmaf 190 READING: An Argument about Command 1: Gelon's Offer 192 Chapter 27 Vocabulary 193 CHAPTER 28 195 1. Future and general conditions 195 2. Conditions with the subjunctive 196 3. Conditions with the optative 197 4. Directional suffixes 198 READING: An Argument about Command 2: The Greek Response 199 Chapter 28 Vocabulary 200 CHAPTER 29 201 1. Adverbs 201 2. ?chiomega + adverb 201 3. mu?lambdaalpha, mu?lambdalambdaomicronnu, mu?lambdaiotasigmataualpha 202 4. The interrogative pronoun / adjective 203 5. The indefinite pronoun / adjective 203 6. Interrogative and indefinite adverbs 204 READING: Born To Be King 1: A High-Handed Child 205 Chapter 29 Vocabulary 206 CHAPTER 30 207 1. The indefinite relative pronoun / adjective 207 2. Correlative pronouns / adjectives 208 3. Correlative adverbs 208 4. Conditional relative and temporal clauses 209 READING: Born To Be King 2: King Hereafter 211 Chapter 30 Vocabulary 211 CHAPTER 31 213 1. The perfect system 213 2. The perfect and pluperfect active indicative of regular verbs (4th principal part) 213 3. The perfect and pluperfect middle / passive indicative of regular verbs (5th principal part) 214 4. The dative of personal agent 215 5. The perfect infinitive (4th and 5th principal parts) 216 6. Result (consecutive) clauses 217 READING: Pylos and Sphacteria 1: An Ill Wind 218 Chapter 31 Vocabulary 219 CHAPTER 32 221 1. The 2nd (strong) perfect active 221 2. Reduplication 222 3. The perfect middle / passive of consonant stem verbs 223 4. The perfect active participle 224 5. The perfect middle / passive participle 225 6. Supplementary participles not in indirect statement 226 READING: Pylos and Sphacteria 2: Stalemate 228 Chapter 32 Vocabulary 229 CHAPTER 33 231 1. The perfect subjunctive and optative 231 2. Numbers 232 3. Declension of numbers 233 4. The negative pronouns / adjectives omicron?deltaepsilon?sigmaf and muetadeltaepsilon?sigmaf 233 5. Clauses of fearing 234 6. Indirect questions 236 READING: Pylos and Sphacteria 3: A Boast Fulfilled 237 Chapter 33 Vocabulary 238 CHAPTER 34 239 1. epsilon?muiota, 'go' 239 2. ?etamuiota 241 3. Temporal clauses with ?omegasigmaf, mu?chirhoiota and ?sigmatauepsilon 243 4. Temporal clauses with pirho?nu 244 READING: Socrates' Defense Speech 246 Chapter 34 Vocabulary 246 Greek-English Glossary 247 English-Greek Glossary 257 Appendix 1: Principal Parts 265 Appendix 2: Uses of Cases 269 Appendix 3: Prepositions 270 Appendix 4: Summary of Forms 271 Nouns 271 Adjectives 276 Participles 279 Pronouns 281 Numbers 284 Regular Thematic Verbs 285 Contract Thematic Verbs 293 Athematic Verbs: deltaepsilon?kappanuupsilonmuiota, tau?thetaetamuiota, ?sigmatauetamuiota, delta?deltaomegamuiota 296 Irregular Athematic Verbs: ?etamuiota, epsilon?mu?, epsilon?muiota, phietamu?, omicron?deltaalpha 303 Appendix 5: Reading Expectations 307 Appendix 6: Construction Summaries 309 Appendix 7: Regular Verb Tense Markers and Endings by Tense 311 Appendix 8: Regular Verb Tense Markers and Endings by Mood 313 Index 315

About the Author :
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is the Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics, emerita, at the University of Texas. Her research interests include Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology and Mycenaean Greek. She is the author of Wilding's Greek for Beginners with Focus as well as A Guide to the Palace of Nestor (Princeton 2001).

Review :
Shelmerdine's book is extremely well laid-out with clear tables and large, easy-to-read text. Her table of contents is incredibly detailed, making it very easy to find each topic. Her chapter vocabularies are very helpfully divided into two parts: learning and reading, which come under the same heading but are distinguished in an easily recognizable way, since bold type highlights the vocabulary to be learned (words which will appear frequently throughout the book), while the reading/passive vocabulary is displayed in ordinary type. The learning vocabularies are quite short, especially in the later chapters, and do not place too heavy a burden on the beginning student who will want to spend most of his/her time on learning the new grammatical forms presented in each chapter. -Kirsty Jenkins, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.12.42


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  • ISBN-13: 9781585104765
  • Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1585104760
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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