Introduction to Attic Greek

Donald J. Mastronarde

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780520275713
• eBook ISBN: 9780520954991
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Literature

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)

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• How to Use This Book
• INTRODUCTION. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek
• UNIT ONE. The Alphabet; Pronunciation
• UNIT TWO. Accentuation
• UNIT THREE. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I
• UNIT FOUR. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article
• UNIT FIVE. Present Active Indicative of ω-Verbs
• UNIT SIX. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II
• UNIT SEVEN. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication
• UNIT EIGHT. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses
• UNIT NINE. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives
• UNIT TEN. Present of εἰμí; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative
• UNIT ELEVEN. Present Middle/Passive Indicative
• UNIT TWELVE. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun αὐτóς; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV
• UNIT THIRTEEN. Contract Verbs in -έω; Demonstratives
• UNIT FOURTEEN. Consonant-Declension Nouns I
• UNIT FIFTEEN. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun
• UNIT SIXTEEN. Imperfect Indicative
• UNIT SEVENTEEN. Indefinite τις; Uses of the Accusative
• UNIT EIGHTEEN. Future Active and Middle Indicative
• UNIT NINETEEN. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative
• UNIT TWENTY. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse
• UNIT TWENTY-ONE. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns
• UNIT TWENTY-TWO. Consonant-Declension Adjectives
• UNIT TWENTY-THREE. Present System of μι-Verbs
• UNIT TWENTY-FOUR. Athematic Aorists
• UNIT TWENTY-FIVE. Adjectives with Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions
• UNIT TWENTY-SIX. Participles: Formation and Declension
• UNIT TWENTY-SEVEN. Uses of the Participle I
• UNIT TWENTY-EIGHT. Uses of the Participle II; οἶδα
• UNIT TWENTY-NINE. Aorist Passive and Future Passive
• UNIT THIRTY. Contract Verbs in -άω and -óω; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative
• UNIT THIRTY-ONE. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
• UNIT THIRTY-TWO. The Subjunctive
• UNIT THIRTY-THREE. Formation of the Optative
• UNIT THIRTY-FOUR. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse with ὅτι; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative
• UNIT THIRTY-FIVE. Conditional Constructions
• UNIT THIRTY-SIX. Indicative with ἄν; Correlatives; More Particles
• UNIT THIRTY-SEVEN. Perfect System Active
• UNIT THIRTY-EIGHT. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns
• UNIT THIRTY-NINE. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses with Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects
• UNIT FORTY. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives in -τóς and -τέος; Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes
• UNIT FORTY-ONE. Temporal Clauses with ἕως and the Like; πρίν; Attraction
• UNIT FORTY-TWO. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood
• APPENDIX A. Table of Contractions
• APPENDIX B. Principal Parts
• APPENDIX C. Paradigms
• Greek–English Glossary
• English–Greek Glossary
• Index