Introduction to Attic GreekThoroughly 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) |
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Contents
introduction The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek | 1 |
unit one The Alphabet Pronunciation | 7 |
unit two Accentuation | 17 |
unit three ODeclension Nouns Prepositions I | 23 |
unit four ADeclension Nouns I The Article | 34 |
unit five Present Active Indicative of ωVerbs | 43 |
unit six ADeclension Nouns II Prepositions II | 54 |
unit seven VowelDeclension Adjectives Attribution and Predication | 60 |
unit twentyfive Adjectives with Variant Stems Numerals Reflexive | 205 |
Formation and Declension | 215 |
unit twentyseven Uses of the Participle I | 225 |
unit twentyeight Uses of the Participle II οἶδα | 234 |
unit twentynine Aorist Passive and Future Passive | 243 |
unit thirty Contract Verbs in άω and όω Further Uses of the Genitive | 253 |
unit thirtyone Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs | 264 |
unit thirtytwo The Subjunctive | 273 |
unit eight Second Person Imperative Prepositions III Relative Pronoun | 69 |
unit nine Present Infinitive TwoEnding Adjectives | 77 |
unit ten Present of εἰμί Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative | 84 |
unit eleven Present MiddlePassive Indicative | 91 |
unit twelve Adverbs Conjunctions Pronoun αὐτός Pronominal Article | 98 |
unit thirteen Contract Verbs in έω Demonstratives | 107 |
unit fourteen ConsonantDeclension Nouns I | 115 |
unit fifteen ConsonantDeclension Nouns II Interrogative Pronoun | 123 |
unit sixteen Imperfect Indicative | 130 |
unit seventeen Indefinite τις Uses of the Accusative | 138 |
unit eighteen Future Active and Middle Indicative | 147 |
unit nineteen Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative | 154 |
unit twenty Tense and Aspect Indirect Discourse | 163 |
unit twentyone ConsonantDeclension Nouns III Personal Pronouns | 173 |
unit twentytwo ConsonantDeclension Adjectives | 181 |
unit twentythree Present System of μιVerbs | 189 |
unit twentyfour Athematic Aorists | 198 |
unit thirtythree Formation of the Optative | 284 |
unit thirtyfour Uses of the Optative Indirect Discourse with ὅτι Indirect | 294 |
unit thirtyfive Conditional Constructions | 306 |
unit thirtysix Indicative with ἄν Correlatives More Particles | 317 |
unit thirtyseven Perfect System Active | 326 |
unit thirtyeight Perfect System MiddlePassive AContract Nouns | 336 |
unit thirtynine Third Person Imperatives Object Clauses with Verbs | 348 |
unit forty OContract Nouns Verbal Adjectives in τός and τέος Subordinate | 357 |
unit fortyone Temporal Clauses with ἕως and the Like πρίν Attraction | 367 |
unit fortytwo Contract VowelDeclension Adjectives Attic Declension | 377 |
appendix a Table of Contractions | 385 |
Paradigms | 405 |
GreekEnglish Glossary | 451 |
EnglishGreek Glossary | 468 |
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Common terms and phrases
a-declension accent accusative active indicative adverb aorist aorist active aorist passive aorist stem apodosis athematic Athenians Attic Attic Greek circumflex clause compensatory lengthening conjugation consonant consonant-declension contraction dative declension diphthong dual 2nd éco enclitic English expressed feminine future genitive idiom imperfect indicative subjunctive optative indirect discourse infinitive inflection iota masc mid./pass middle middle/passive middle/passive indicative neut neuter nominative participle perf perfect active perfect middle/passive person singular personal endings peta phrase plosive pluperfect plur plural postpositive preposition pres present active present stem principal pronoun protasis reduplication relative pronoun sentence sigma sing Stems ending strong aorist subjunctive optative imperative suffix syllable TaüTa tense stem Tepi theme vowel third person Tois Töv Tovs Tów translated verb word ἄν οἱ ον οὐ τὰ τὴν τὸν τοὺς τῷ τῶν
Bibliographic information
| Title | Introduction to Attic Greek |
| Author | Donald J. Mastronarde |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 0520275713, 9780520275713 |
| Length | 492 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical |
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