Description
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)
Author: Donald J. Mastronarde
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780520275713
ISBN10: 0520275713
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- 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)
Author: Donald J. Mastronarde
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780520275713
ISBN10: 0520275713
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
About the Author
Donald J. Mastronarde is Melpomene Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context, Euripides, Medea, and Euripides, Phoenissae.