Introduction to Attic Greek

✍ Scribed by Donald J. Mastronarde

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features:

• Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts

• Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises

• Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax

• Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides.

• Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language

• Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms

• Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries



Additional Resources:

•Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org

•Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
How to Use This Book
Introduction. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek
Unit One. The Alphabet; Pronunciation
Unit Two. Accentuation
Unit Three. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I
Unit Four. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article
Unit FIVE. Present Active Indicative of ω-Verbs
Unit Six. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II
Unit Seven. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication
Unit Eight. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses
Unit Nine. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives
Unit Ten. Present of εἰμí; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative
Unit Eleven. Present Middle/Passive Indicative
Unit Twelve. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun αὐτóς; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV
Unit Thirteen. Contract Verbs in -έω; Demonstratives
Unit Fourteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns I
Unit Fifteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun
Unit Sixteen. Imperfect Indicative
Unit Seventeen. Indefinite τις; Uses of the Accusative
Unit Eighteen. Future Active and Middle Indicative
Unit Nineteen. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative
Unit Twenty. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse
Unit Twenty-one. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns
Unit Twenty-Two. Consonant-Declension Adjectives
Unit Twenty-Three. Present System of μι-Verbs
Unit Twenty-Four. Athematic Aorists
Unit Twenty-Five. Adjectives with Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions
Unit Twenty-Six. Participles: Formation and Declension
Unit Twenty-Seven. Uses of the Participle I
Unit Twenty-Eight. Uses of the Participle II; οἶδα
Unit Twenty-Nine. Aorist Passive and Future Passive
Unit Thirty. Contract Verbs in -άω and -όω; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative
Unit Thirty-One. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
Unit Thirty-Two. The Subjunctive
Unit Thirty-Three. Formation of the Optative
Unit Thirty-Four. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse with ὅτι; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative
Unit Thirty-Five. Conditional Constructions
Unit Thirty-Six. Indicative with ἄν; Correlatives; More Particles
Unit Thirty-Seven. Perfect System Active
Unit Thirty-Eight. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns
Unit Thirty-Nine. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses with Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects
Unit Forty. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives in -τός and -τέος; Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes
Unit Forty-One. Temporal Clauses with ἕως and the Like; πρίν; Attraction
Unit Forty-Two. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood
Appendix A. Table of Contractions
Appendix B. Principal Parts
Appendix C. Paradigms
Greek–English Glossary
English–Greek Glossary
Index