Learn to Read Greek: Textbook, Part 1

✍ Scribed by Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is intended for students who have a serious interest in learning the language.

The text and workbook include carefully chosen vocabularies and extensive vocabulary notes; clear and complete presentations of all necessary morphology and syntax; large numbers of drills and drill sentences; and abundant unabridged passagesfrom a variety of Greek authors and texts.

✦ Table of Contents

TITLE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
§1. The Greek Language and Its dialects
§2. Pronunciation and Orthography of Attic Greek
Alphabet
Consonants
Vowels, Diphthongs, and Iota Subscripts and Adscripts
Rough and Smooth Breathings
Punctuation
Syllabification
§3. Accentuation 1: The Possibilities of Accent
§4. Vocabulary, Morphology, and Syntax
CHAPTER 1
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Notes
§5. Accentuation 2: Persistent Accent
§6. The Greek noun and Its properties:Gender, number, and Case
Nominative Case
Genitive Case
Dative Case
Accusative Case
Vocative Case
§7. The Three declensions
§8. Noun Morphology: First Declension 1
§9. Noun Morphology: Second Declension
§10. The Article
§11. Uses of the article; The attributive position
The attributive position
CHAPTER 2
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Notes
§12. Noun Morphology: First Declension 2
Short-Alpha Nouns
Masculine Nouns Ending in -ας, -ου; -ης, -ου
§13. First-Second-Declension Adjectives
§14. Noun-Adjective Agreement; Placement of Adjectives
§15. Substantive Use of the Adjective
§16. Subjective Genitiv
§17. Objective Genitive
§18. Dative of Respec
§19. Accusative of Respec
§20. The Demonstrative Adjective and Pronoun οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο
§21. Apposition
CHAPTER 3
Vocabulary
§22. Accentuation 3: Recessive Accen
§23. The Finite Greek Verb and Its Properties:Person^ Number, Tense, Voice, Mood
§24. The Greek Tenses of the Indicative Mood: Overview
§25. The Vocabulary Entry for a Verb: Principal Part
§26. Omega Verbs (Thematic Verbs)
§27. Present Active Indicative of Omega Verbs
§28. Subject-Verb Agreement
§29. Present Middle and Passive Indicative of Omega Verbs
§30. Imperfect Active Indicative of Omega Verbs
§31. Imperfect Middle and Passive Indicative of Omega Verbs
§32. The Present Active and Middle/Passive Infinitives of Omega Verbs
§33. Future Active and Middle Indicative and Infinitives of Omega Verbs
§34. Future Passive Indicative and Infinitive of Omega Verbs
§35. Synopsis 1: Present, Imperfect, and Future Active, Middle, and Passive Indicative; Present and Future Active, Middle, and Passive Infinitives
§36. Object Infinitive
§37. Genitive of Personal Agent
§38. Dative of Indirect Object
§39. Word Order in Greek
Short Readings
CHAPTER 4
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Notes
§40. Contracted Verbs 1: -έω
§41. Contracted Verbs 2: -άω
§42. Contracted Verbs 3: -όω
§43. The Demonstrative Adjective and Pronoun ὅδε, ἥδε, τόδε
§44. The Demonstrative Adjective and Pronoun ἐκεῖνος, ἐκείνη, ἐκεῖνο
§45 . Comparison of οὗτος, ὅδε, and έκεῖνος
§46. The Irregular Adjectives μέγας, μεγάλη, μέγα and πολύς, πολλή, πολύ
§47. Partitive Genitive
§48. Genitive ofValue
§49. Substantive Use ofthe Article
§50. Adverbs
§51. Elision and Crasis
CHAPTER 5
Vocabulary Notes
§52. Noun Morphology: Third Declension, Consonant Stems
§53. The Relative Pronoun and the Relative Clause
§54. Enclitics
§55. The Verb εἰμί
§57. Subject Infinitive
§58. Subject Accusative
§59. Names of the Greek Gods
Short Readings
CHAPTER 6
§60. First Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Infinitives of Omega Verbs
§61. Second Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Infinitives of Omega Verbs
§62. Aorist Passive Indicative and Infinitive of Omega Verbs
§63. Synopsis 2: Present; Imperfect, Future^ and Aorist Indicative; Present, Future, and Aorist Infinitives
§64. Additional Uses ofthe Aorist Indicative
§65. Deponents
§66. The intensive Adjective αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτό
§67. Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
§68. The Adjectives πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν and ἅπᾱς, ἅπᾱσα, ἅπαν
§69. Indirect Statement 1
§70. The Binary Construction (Prolepsis)
§71. Dative ofthe Possessor
Short Readings
Longer Readings
CHAPTER 7
Vocabulary
Vocabulary notes
Compound Verbs
Accents on Compound Verb Forms
Derivatives and Cognates
§73. Participles 1
Present Active Participle
Present Middle/Passive Participle
First Aorist Active Participle
First Aorist Middle Participle
Second Aorist Active Participle
Second Aorist Middle Participle
Aorist Passive Participle
§74. Synopsis 3: Present, Imperfect, Future, and Aorist Indicative; Present, Future, and Aorist Infinitives; Present and Aorist Participles
§75. The attributive and Substantive Uses of the participle
§76. The Supplementary participle
§77. noun Morphology: Third declension, σ-Stems
§78. noun Morphology: Third declension, ι-Stems
§79. Third-declension adjectives 1: -ης, -ες
§80. Genitive of Cause
§81. dative of Cause
§82. dative with a Compound Verb
Short readings
Longer readings
CHAPTER 8
Vocabulary
Vocabulary iMotes
§83. Perfect and Pluperfect Active Indicative of Omega Verbs; Perfect Active Infinitive of Omega Verbs
§84. Perfect and Pluperfect Middle/Passive Indicative of Omega Verbs; Perfect Middle/Passive Infinitive of Omega Verbs
§85. Synopsis 4: All Indicative Tenses; All Infinitives;Present and Aorist Participles
§86. Dative of Agent
§87. The Verb φημί
§88. Indirect Statement 2
§89. Indirect Statement 3
§90. Personal Constructions
§91. Articular Infinitive
Short Readings
Longer Readings
1. Sophocles, Philoctetes 260-65 (IT)
2. Isocrates, Nicocles 7-8
3. Xenophon, Cynegeticus 13.1
4. Plato, Lysis 214a5-b8
CHAPTER 9
Vocabulary Notes
§92. The Verb οἶδα
§93. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective τίς, τί
§94. The Enclitic Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective τις, τι
§95. The Adjectives εἷς, μία, ἕν and ούδείς, οὐδεμία, οὐδέν/μηδείς, μηδειμία, μηδέν
§96. Conditional Sentences 1
§97. Third-Declension Adjectives 2: -ων, -ov
§98. Dative of Manner
§99. Adverbial Accusative
Short Readings
Longer Readings
1. Theognis, Elegies I.833-36 (ec)
2. Sophocles, Antigone 506-17 (IT)
3. Sophocles, frag. 941
4. Euripides, Bacchae 464-68 (IT)
5. Euripides, Cyclops 113-28 (IT)
6. Euripides, Helen 255-61 (IT)
7. Aristophanes, Frogs 757-60 (IT)
8. Xenophon, Memorabilia I.1.1-2
9. Aristotle, Categories 65.20-66.3
10. Demosthenes, On the Crown 29
AUTHORS AND PASSAGES
GREEK TO ENGLISH VOCABULARY
ENGLISH TO GREEK VOCABULARY
PRINCIPAL PARTS OF VERBS
VERBS INTRODUCING INDIRECT STATEMENT
GENERAL INDEX
English Index
Greek Index
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