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This thorough presentation of Attic Greek assumes that college students learning the language deserve, from the beginning, full exposure to all the grammar and morphology that they will encounter in actual texts. Each of the forty-two chapters is a self-contained instructional unit, with challenging exercises carefully tailored to reflect the vocabulary and grammar learned to date. The units gradually build up the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax. Readings become progressively more complex and, in the second half of the book, are largely based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides. Logically organized and remarkably lucid, Introduction to Attic Greek provides students with a strong grounding in the essentials of Greek grammar as well as a substantial body of vocabulary, enabling students to read, on completion of the course, a continuous text with commentary and dictionary. Included are a concise introduction to the history of the Greek language, a composite list of verbs with principal parts, an appendix of all paradigms, Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries, and a detailed index. The book is also a useful reference work for more advanced students who discover that gaps in their knowledge of basic Greek grammar prevent accurate reading of texts.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520078446
ISBN-139780520078444
eBay Product ID (ePID)968361
Product Key Features
Number of Pages435 Pages
LanguageEng,Gec
Publication NameIntroduction to Attic Greek
Publication Year1993
SubjectAncient & Classical, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Linguistics / General
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorDonald J. Mastronarde
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN92-021731
Dewey Edition20
Target AudienceScholarly & Professional
IllustratedYes