Athenaze, Book I: An Introduction to Ancient Greek

by Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, James Morwood

Overview

Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek 3/e, provides a unique, bestselling course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the begining and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (423-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotuc and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucudides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also woven throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190607661
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/04/2016
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

James Morwood was elected to a Fellowship at Wadham College in 1966, where he taught and served as Dean of Degrees, Steward of Common Room, and Dean (the last post from 2000 to 2006). He became an Emeritus Fellow in 2006 and remains Editor of the Wadham Gazette. He still does some teaching at the college.
James was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he sat Part I of the Classical Tripos and Part II of the English Tripos. After a year at Merton College, Oxford on the course for the Diploma of Education, he went to Harrow School in September 1966 to teach Classics and English. He spent 30 years at Harrow, the last seventeen of them as Head of Classics. He was deeply involved in school journalism and drama, working with Richard Curtis and Ben Cumberbatch among many others. He was librarian for more than eleven years, and sat on and later chaired the school's Treasures Committee, a body which brought into existence the Old Speech Room Gallery.

In 1996 he moved to Oxford University and took up the post of Grocyn Lecturer in the Classics Faculty and served for a year as President of the Oxford Philological Society.

James has been a committed member of the Joint Association of Classical teachers and held the Presidency of the Association for 1999-2001, becoming an Honorary Member in 2011. He was President of the London Association of Classical Teachers for 1995-6; has been a regular tutor at the JACT Greek Summer School at Cheltenham and Bryanston since 1970, serving as its Director of Studies, and its Director. He also teaches Classics and English literature at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

With Eric Dugdale, he is currently editing a new series entitiled 'Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts'. His revision of the Oxford Latin Course for North American college students was published in January 2012; his book on Hadrian (Bloomsbury) was published in the summer 2013.

Current projects include an edition of Virgil, Aeneid 3 (with Stephen Heyworth), an edition (with Chris Collard) of Euripedes' Iphegenia at Aulis and A Little Greek Reader (with Stephen Anderson-Oxford University Press). He lectures on cruises in the Adriatic and Agean, last September sailing from Istanbul to Athens.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Historical Essays
List of Maps
List of Color Plates
About the Authors
Introduction
Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea

1. O ΔIKAIOΠOΛIΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings
2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement
3. U se of the Definite Article

Reading
The Athenian Farmer
O ΔIKAIOΠOΛIΣ (β)

Grammar
4. Accents

Readings
O KΛHPOΣ
Classical Greek: Heraclitus
New Testament Greek: Title page of the Gospel of Luke
2. O ΞANΘIAΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular
2. Proclitics
3. The Imperative

Readings
Slavery
Greek Wisdom: Cleobulus of Lindos
O ΞANΘIAΣ (β)

Grammar
4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases
5. U ses of the Cases
6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives
7. Recessive Accent of Verbs

Readings
O ΔOΥΛOΣ
Classical Greek: Callimachus
New Testament Greek: Luke 3.22
3. O APOTOΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives

Reading
The Deme and the Polis
O APOTOΣ (β)

Grammar
2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases
3. Accent Shifting

Readings
OI βOEΣ
Classical Greek: Menander
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.46
4. ΠPOΣ THI KPHNHI (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural
2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives
3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension

Readings
Women
Greek Wisdom: Pittacus (of Mitylene)
ΠPOΣ THI KPHNHI (β)

Grammar
4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension
5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension
6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives
7. Two Irregular Adjectives
8. Formation of Adverbs
9. The Definite Article as Case Indicator

Readings
AI ΓΥNAIKEΣ TOΥΣ ANΔPAΣ ΠEIΘOΥΣIN
Classical Greek: Callimachus
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.45
5. O ΛΥKOΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Contract Verbs in -a-
2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs
3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause
4. Elision

Readings
Gods and Men
Greek Wisdom: Chilon of Sparta
O ΛΥKOΣ (β)

Grammar
5. Agreement of Subject and Verb
6. Personal Pronouns
7. Attributive and Predicate Position
8. Possessives
9. The Adjective aὐτόΣ, -ή, -ό

Readings
O APΓOΣ TA ΠPOβATA ΣΩIZEI
Greek Wisdom: The Seven Wise Men
Classical Greek: Anacreon
New Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 24
6. O MΥΘOΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: ΠΛέΩ
2. Verbs: Voice
3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice
4. Deponent Verbs

Reading
Myth
O MΥΘOΣ (β)

Grammar
5. Middle Voice: Meaning
6. Some Uses of the Dative Case
7. Prepositions

Readings
O ΘHΣEΥΣ THN APIAΔNHN KATAΛEIΠEI
Classical Greek: Marriage
New Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-16
7. O KΥKΛΩΨ (a)

Grammar
1. Substantive Use of Adjectives
2. Nouns: Declensions
3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems
4. Reflexive Pronouns

Reading
Homer
O KΥKΛΩΨ (β)

Grammar
5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems
6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: β, Π, Φ (Labial) and Λ, p
(Liquid) Stems
7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: ΣώΦpΩv, ΣΩ.Φpov, of sound mind;
prudent; self-controlled
8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective
9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective

Readings
O TOΥ ΘHΣEΩΣ ΠATHP AΠOΘNHIΣKEI
Classical Greek: Sophocles
Greek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus
8. ΠPOΣ TO AΣTΥ (a)

Grammar
1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice

Readings
Athens: A Historical Outline
Classical Greek: Archilochus
New Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21
ΠPOΣ TO AΣTΥ (β)

Grammar
2. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Stems in -p-
3. Two Important Irregular Nouns: ἡ ΓΥvή, τH.Σ ΓΥvaιKόΣ, woman; wife,
and ἡ Χείp, τH.Σ ΧειpόΣ, hand
4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective: Πa.Σ, Πa.Σa, Πa.v, all; every; whole
Reading
Greek Wisdom: Periander of Corinth
Grammar
5. Numbers
6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time Within Which

Readings
O OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ KAI O AIOΛOΣ
Classical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament
9. H ΠANHΓΎPIΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active Voice
Reading
The City of Athens
H ΠANHΓΥPIΣ (β)

Grammar
2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -vτ-
3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: ἡ ΠόΛιΣ and τὸ ἄΣτΥ
4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels:
ὁ βaΣιΛεΎΣ and the Irregular Nouns ἡ vaΥ.Σ and ὁ βoΥ.Σ
5. U ses of the Genitive Case
6. Some Uses of the Article

Readings
O OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ KAI H KIPKH
Classical Greek: Simonides
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the Mount
REVIEW OF VERB FORMS

PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS

10. H ΣΥMΦOPA (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: Verbs with Sigmatic Futures
2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in -ίζΩ
3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs
4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures

Readings
Festivals
Classical Greek: Theognis
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the Mount
H ΣΥMΦOPA (β)

Grammar
5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs with
Liquid and Nasal Stems
6. The Irregular Verb εἰ¥μι
7. Future Participle to Express Purpose
8. Impersonal Verbs
9. Review of Questions

Readings
O OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ TOΥΣ ETAIPOΥΣ AΠOΛΛΥΣIN
Classical Greek: Menander and Archilochus
New Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-32
11. O IATPOΣ (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist
2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist
3. Aspect
4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles
5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists

Readings
Greek Science and Medicine
Classical Greek: Theognis
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The Beatitudes
O IATPOΣ (β)

Grammar
6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems
7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives
8. Augment

Readings
O ΔHMOKHΔHΣ TON βAΣIΛEA IATPEΥEI
New Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount
12. ΠPOΣ TON ΠEIPAIA (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist
2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles

Readings
Trade and Travel
Classical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in Life
New Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost Sheep
ΠPOΣ TON ΠEIPAIA (β)

Grammar
3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems
4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists
5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs

Readings
O KΩΛAIOΣ TON TAPTHΣΣON EΥPIΣKEI
Greek Wisdom: Bias of Priene
13. ΠPOΣ THN ΣAΛAMINA (a)

Grammar
1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense
2. Aspect
Reading
The Rise of Persia
ΠPOΣ THN ΣAΛAMINA (β)

Grammar
3. Relative Clauses
4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -εΣ-
5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -Υ- and -ε-

Readings
O ΞEPΞHΣ TON EΛΛHΣΠONTON ΔIAβAINEI
Greek Wisdom: Solon of Athens
Classical Greek: Archilochus
New Testament Greek: Luke 21.1-4: The Widow's Mite
14. H EN TAIΣ ΘEPMOΠΥΛAIΣ MAΧH (a)

Grammar
1. Comparison of Adjectives
2. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives
3. Comparison of Adverbs
4. U ses of Comparatives and Superlatives

Readings
The Rise of Athens
Classical Greek: Archilochus
New Testament Greek: Luke 10.25-29: The Good Samaritan (concluded 14 (B))
H EN TAIΣ ΘEPMOΠΥΛAIΣ MAΧH (β)

Grammar
5. Demonstrative Adjectives
6. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs

Readings
OI ΠEPΣAI TA ΥΠEP ΘEPMOΠΥΛΩN ΣTENA AIPOΥΣIN
Classical Greek: Theognis
New Testament Greek: Luke 10.30-37: The Good Samaritan (concluded)
15. H EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧH (a)

Grammar
1. Athematic 2nd Aorists
2. More 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems in -εΣ-

Readings
Aeschylus's Persae
New Testament Greek: Luke 2.1-14: The Birth of Jesus
H EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧH (β)

Grammar
3. Contract Verbs in -o-
4. Contract Nouns of the 2nd Declension
5. More Numbers
6. U ses of ὡΣ and Its Compounds

Reading
OI ΠEPΣAI TAΣ AΘHNAΣ AIPOΥΣIN
16. META THN EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧHN (a)

Grammar
1. The Passive Voice

Reading
The Athenian Empire
META THN EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧHN (β)

Grammar
2. Verbs with Athematic Presents and Imperfects: ΔΎvaμaι, Kει.μaι,
and ἐΠίΣτaμaι

Readings
O ΞEPΞHΣ ΠPOΣ THN AΣIAN ANAΧΩPEI
Classical Greek: Sappho: Love's Power
Classical Greek: Simonides
New Testament Greek: Luke 2.15-20: The Birth of Jesus (concluded)

Verb Charts
Syllables and Accents
Enclitics and Proclitics
Forms
Forms of Definite Article, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns Laid Out in
Case Order N, V, A, G, D
Index of Language and Grammar
Greek to English Vocabulary
English to Greek Vocabulary
General Index
Acknowledgments

Editorial Reviews

"Athenaze, Books I and II, presents a thoughtful, reading-based approach to learning ancient Greek. Both books are interspersed with superbly written cultural and historical essays that introduce readers to the signature characteristics of Greek culture."—Stephen Esposito, Boston University

"I have found Athenaze's methodology successful with today's broad range of student learning styles and varied levels of language sophistication."—Elizabeth A. Fisher, George Washington University

"Athenaze is an excellent adaptation of the reading approach for ancient Greek, with excellent Greek readings."—Nicholas Rynearson, University of Georgia

"The approach is student friendly, the readings are varied and interesting, and the grammatical explanations are clear."—Laurie Cosgriff, Portland State University

"Athenaze is the best text for learning ancient Greek. Period."—George Rudebusch, Northern Arizona University

"The storyline and characters of the text readily draw students into the language and culture of the Greeks. Athenaze is arguably the best first-year Greek text on the market."—Richard L. Phillips, Virginia Tech University

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