An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek
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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek

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  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek

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About this book

First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume, translations of all the texts, answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume and cross-references to the relevant fifth-century background in The World of Athens. There are instructions of how to use the course and the Study Guide. The book will also be useful to students in schools, universities and summer schools who have to learn Greek rapidly.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Authors’ note
  7. Author’s note on the revised edition
  8. Preface
  9. Abbreviations used in the text
  10. Grammatical Introduction
  11. Section One: The insurance scam
  12. Section Two: The glorious past
  13. Section Three: Athens and Sparta
  14. Section Four: Lawlessness in Athenian life
  15. Section Five: ‘Socrates corrupts the young’
  16. Section Six
  17. Section Seven: Socrates and intellectual inquiry
  18. Section Eight: Aristophanes’ Birds
  19. Section Nine: Aristophanes’ Wasps
  20. Section Ten: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
  21. Section Eleven: Aristophanes’ Akharnians
  22. Sections Twelve–Fourteen: The prosecution of Neaira
  23. Section Twelve: Neaira as slave
  24. Section Thirteen: Neaira as married woman
  25. Section Fourteen: Guarding a woman’s purity
  26. Section Fifteen: Alkestis in Euripides’ play
  27. Section Sixteen: Offi cial justice – ships, state and individuals
  28. Section Seventeen: Private justice – trouble down at the farm
  29. Section Eighteen: How Zeus gave justice to men
  30. Section Nineteen: The story of Adrastos
  31. Section Twenty: Odysseus and Nausikaa