Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary

by Corporate Author Joint Association of Classical Teachers

• ISBN13: 9780521698511
• ISBN10: 0521698510
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781107741560
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors, including Herodotus, Euripides, Aristophanes and Demosthenes, in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. Generous support is provided with vocabulary. At the same time, through the texts and numerous illustrations, students will receive a good introduction to Greek culture, and especially that of Classical Athens. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume provides full grammatical support together with numerous exercises at different levels, Greek-English and English-Greek vocabularies, a substantial reference grammar and language surveys.

Table of Contents

Athens at Sea

A-J. The insurance scam

A-D. The glorious past

A-E. Athens and Sparta

Moral Decay?

A-D. Lawlessness in Athenian life

A-D

A-D. 'Socrates corrupts the young'

A-H. Socrates and intellectual inquiry

Athens through the Comic Poet's Eyes

A-C. Aristophanes' Birds and visions of Utopia

A-J. Aristophanes' Wasps

A-E. Aristophanes' Lysistrata

A-C. Aristophanes' Akharnians

Women in Athenian Society: Sections Twelve to Fourteen

The Prosecution of Neaira

A-I. Neaira as slave

A-I. Neaira as married woman

A-F. Guarding a woman's purity

A-C. Alkestis in Euripides' play

Athenian Views of Justice: Sections Sixteen to Seventeen

Official and Private Justice

A-H. Official justice, ships, state and individuals

A-E. Private justice: trouble down at the farm

A-E. How Zeus gave justice to men

Gods, Fate and Man

A-F. The story of Adrastos

Homeric Hero and Heroine

A-G. Odysseus and Nausikaa; A total Greek-English vocabulary of all words to be learnt

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