An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose

✍ Scribed by Eleanor Dickey

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why learn to write in a dead language? Because a really good understanding of a language can only be attained by using it actively. Unlike earlier textbooks aimed at schoolboys, this work addresses modern adults who want to understand concepts fully as they learn. Drawing on recent scholarship where appropriate and assuming no prior background except some reading knowledge of Greek, the course combines a structured review of paradigms and vocabulary with clear and comprehensive explanations of the rules of Greek syntax. Large numbers of exercises are provided, both with and without key: a complete set of cumulative exercises and another set of non-cumulative exercises for those who prefer to dip into specific sections. The exercises include, as well as English sentences and paragraphs for translation, Greek sentences and passages for translation, analysis, and manipulation. A full English-Greek vocabulary and list of principal parts are included.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Useful reference texts
Accentuation
I Articles
II Modifiers
III Tenses, voices, and agreement
IV Cases
V Participles
VI The structure of a Greek sentence: word order and connection
Review exercises 1
VII Conditional, concessive, and potential clauses
VIII Relative clauses
IX Pronouns
X Indirect statement
XI Questions
Review exercises 2
XII Purpose, fear, and effort
XIII Cause, result, and “on condition that"
XIV Comparison and negatives
XV Commands, wishes, and prevention
XVI Temporal clauses
Review exercises 3
XVII Impersonal constructions and verbal adjectives
XVIII Oratio obliqua
XIX Summary
XX Consolidation
Appendix A Errors in Smyth’s Grammar
Appendix B English tenses and their Greek equivalents (indicative only)
Appendix C Hints for analyzing Greek sentences
Appendix D English conditional clauses
Appendix E A selection of terminologies for describing Greek conditional sentences
Appendix F Short, easily confused words
Appendix G Partial answer key
Appendix H The next step: prose composition as an art form
Principal parts
Vocabulary
Index to vocabulary