Athenaze, Workbook 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:	9780190607685
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/29/2015
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(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

PrefaceList of Historical EssaysList of MapsList of Color PlatesAbout the AuthorsIntroductionMap of Greece and the Aegean Sea
1. O ΔIKAIOΠOΛIΣ (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: Stems and Endings2. Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement3. U se of the Definite Article
ReadingThe Athenian FarmerO ΔIKAIOΠOΛIΣ (β)
Grammar4. Accents
ReadingsO KΛHPOΣClassical Greek: HeraclitusNew Testament Greek: Title page of the Gospel of Luke2. O ΞANΘIAΣ (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: Indicative Mood; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Persons Singular2. Proclitics3. The Imperative
ReadingsSlaveryGreek Wisdom: Cleobulus of LindosO ΞANΘIAΣ (β)
Grammar4. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular, All Cases5. U ses of the Cases6. Persistent Accent of Nouns and Adjectives7. Recessive Accent of Verbs
ReadingsO ΔOΥΛOΣClassical Greek: CallimachusNew Testament Greek: Luke 3.223. O APOTOΣ (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: 3rd Person Plural, Imperatives, and Infinitives
ReadingThe Deme and the PolisO APOTOΣ (β)
Grammar2. Articles, Adjectives, and Nouns; Singular and Plural, All Cases3. Accent Shifting
ReadingsOI βOEΣClassical Greek: MenanderNew Testament Greek: Luke 6.464. ΠPOΣ THI KPHNHI (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: All Persons, Singular and Plural2. Declensions of Nouns and Adjectives3. Feminine Nouns and Adjectives of the 1st Declension
ReadingsWomenGreek Wisdom: Pittacus (of Mitylene)ΠPOΣ THI KPHNHI (β)
Grammar4. Masculine Nouns of the 1st Declension5. Feminine Nouns of the 2nd Declension6. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives7. Two Irregular Adjectives8. Formation of Adverbs9. The Definite Article as Case Indicator
ReadingsAI ΓΥNAIKEΣ TOΥΣ ANΔPAΣ ΠEIΘOΥΣINClassical Greek: CallimachusNew Testament Greek: Luke 6.455. O ΛΥKOΣ (a)
Grammar1. Contract Verbs in -a-2. Recessive Accent of Finite Verbs3. Article at the Beginning of a Clause4. Elision
ReadingsGods and MenGreek Wisdom: Chilon of SpartaO ΛΥKOΣ (β)
Grammar5. Agreement of Subject and Verb6. Personal Pronouns7. Attributive and Predicate Position8. Possessives9. The Adjective aὐτόΣ, -ή, -ό
ReadingsO APΓOΣ TA ΠPOβATA ΣΩIZEIGreek Wisdom: The Seven Wise MenClassical Greek: AnacreonNew Testament Greek: Luke 4.22 and 246. O MΥΘOΣ (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: ΠΛέΩ2. Verbs: Voice3. Verb Forms: Middle Voice4. Deponent Verbs
ReadingMythO MΥΘOΣ (β)
Grammar5. Middle Voice: Meaning6. Some Uses of the Dative Case7. Prepositions
ReadingsO ΘHΣEΥΣ THN APIAΔNHN KATAΛEIΠEIClassical Greek: MarriageNew Testament Greek: Luke 13.10-167. O KΥKΛΩΨ (a)
Grammar1. Substantive Use of Adjectives2. Nouns: Declensions3. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Velar and Dental Stems4. Reflexive Pronouns
ReadingHomerO KΥKΛΩΨ (β)
Grammar5. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: Nasal Stems6. 3rd Declension Consonant Stem Nouns: β, Π, Φ (Labial) and Λ, p(Liquid) Stems7. A 3rd Declension Adjective: ΣώΦpΩv, ΣΩ.Φpov, of sound mind;prudent; self-controlled8. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective9. The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective
ReadingsO TOΥ ΘHΣEΩΣ ΠATHP AΠOΘNHIΣKEIClassical Greek: SophoclesGreek Wisdom: Thales of Miletus8. ΠPOΣ TO AΣTΥ (a)
Grammar1. Participles: "Present" or Progressive: Middle Voice
ReadingsAthens: A Historical OutlineClassical Greek: ArchilochusNew Testament Greek: Luke 5.20-21ΠPOΣ TO AΣTΥ (β)
Grammar2. 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, hand4. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective: Πa.Σ, Πa.Σa, Πa.v, all; every; wholeReadingGreek Wisdom: Periander of CorinthGrammar5. Numbers6. Expressions of Time When, Duration of Time, and Time Within Which
ReadingsO OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ KAI O AIOΛOΣClassical Greek: Sappho: The Deserted Lover: A Girl's Lament9. H ΠANHΓΎPIΣ (a)
Grammar1. Participles: Present or Progressive: Active VoiceReadingThe City of AthensH ΠANHΓΥPIΣ (β)
Grammar2. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in -vτ-3. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in a Vowel: ἡ ΠόΛιΣ and τὸ ἄΣτΥ4. 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems Ending in Diphthongs or Vowels:ὁ βaΣιΛεΎΣ and the Irregular Nouns ἡ vaΥ.Σ and ὁ βoΥ.Σ5. U ses of the Genitive Case6. Some Uses of the Article
ReadingsO OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ KAI H KIPKHClassical Greek: SimonidesNew Testament Greek: Luke 6.31-33: The Sermon on the MountREVIEW OF VERB FORMS
PREVIEW OF NEW VERB FORMS
10. H ΣΥMΦOPA (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: Verbs with Sigmatic Futures2. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs in -ίζΩ3. Verb Forms: The Sigmatic Future of Contract Verbs4. Verb Forms: Verbs with Deponent Futures
ReadingsFestivalsClassical Greek: TheognisNew Testament Greek: Luke 6.35-36: The Sermon on the MountH ΣΥMΦOPA (β)
Grammar5. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic Contract Future of Verbs withLiquid and Nasal Stems6. The Irregular Verb εἰ¥μι7. Future Participle to Express Purpose8. Impersonal Verbs9. Review of Questions
ReadingsO OΔΥΣΣEΥΣ TOΥΣ ETAIPOΥΣ AΠOΛΛΥΣINClassical Greek: Menander and ArchilochusNew Testament Greek: Luke 5.30-3211. O IATPOΣ (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Aorist2. Verb Forms: The Thematic 2nd Aorist3. Aspect4. Thematic 2nd Aorist Active and Middle Participles5. Verb Forms: Common Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists
ReadingsGreek Science and MedicineClassical Greek: TheognisNew Testament Greek: Luke 6.20-21: The BeatitudesO IATPOΣ (β)
Grammar6. Verbs with Thematic 2nd Aorists from Unrelated Stems7. Accents on Thematic 2nd Aorist Active Imperatives8. Augment
ReadingsO ΔHMOKHΔHΣ TON βAΣIΛEA IATPEΥEINew Testament Greek: Luke 6.27-29: The Sermon on the Mount12. ΠPOΣ TON ΠEIPAIA (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: Past Tense: The Sigmatic 1st Aorist2. Sigmatic 1st Aorist Active and Middle Participles
ReadingsTrade and TravelClassical Greek: Scolion: The Four Best Things in LifeNew Testament Greek: Luke 15.3-7: The Parable of the Lost SheepΠPOΣ TON ΠEIPAIA (β)
Grammar3. Verb Forms: The Asigmatic 1st Aorist of Verbs with Liquid and Nasal Stems4. Irregular Sigmatic 1st Aorists5. Verb Forms: Augment of Compound Verbs
ReadingsO KΩΛAIOΣ TON TAPTHΣΣON EΥPIΣKEIGreek Wisdom: Bias of Priene13. ΠPOΣ THN ΣAΛAMINA (a)
Grammar1. Verb Forms: The Imperfect or Past Progressive Tense2. AspectReadingThe Rise of PersiaΠPOΣ THN ΣAΛAMINA (β)
Grammar3. Relative Clauses4. 3rd Declension Nouns and Adjectives with Stems in -εΣ-5. 1st/3rd Declension Adjective with 3rd Declension Stems in -Υ- and -ε-
ReadingsO ΞEPΞHΣ TON EΛΛHΣΠONTON ΔIAβAINEIGreek Wisdom: Solon of AthensClassical Greek: ArchilochusNew Testament Greek: Luke 21.1-4: The Widow's Mite14. H EN TAIΣ ΘEPMOΠΥΛAIΣ MAΧH (a)
Grammar1. Comparison of Adjectives2. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives3. Comparison of Adverbs4. U ses of Comparatives and Superlatives
ReadingsThe Rise of AthensClassical Greek: ArchilochusNew Testament Greek: Luke 10.25-29: The Good Samaritan (concluded 14 (B))H EN TAIΣ ΘEPMOΠΥΛAIΣ MAΧH (β)
Grammar5. Demonstrative Adjectives6. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs
ReadingsOI ΠEPΣAI TA ΥΠEP ΘEPMOΠΥΛΩN ΣTENA AIPOΥΣINClassical Greek: TheognisNew Testament Greek: Luke 10.30-37: The Good Samaritan (concluded)15. H EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧH (a)
Grammar1. Athematic 2nd Aorists2. More 3rd Declension Nouns with Stems in -εΣ-
ReadingsAeschylus's PersaeNew Testament Greek: Luke 2.1-14: The Birth of JesusH EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧH (β)
Grammar3. Contract Verbs in -o-4. Contract Nouns of the 2nd Declension5. More Numbers6. U ses of ὡΣ and Its Compounds
ReadingOI ΠEPΣAI TAΣ AΘHNAΣ AIPOΥΣIN16. META THN EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧHN (a)
Grammar1. The Passive Voice
ReadingThe Athenian EmpireMETA THN EN THI ΣAΛAMINI MAΧHN (β)
Grammar2. Verbs with Athematic Presents and Imperfects: ΔΎvaμaι, Kει.μaι,and ἐΠίΣτaμaι
ReadingsO ΞEPΞHΣ ΠPOΣ THN AΣIAN ANAΧΩPEIClassical Greek: Sappho: Love's PowerClassical Greek: SimonidesNew Testament Greek: Luke 2.15-20: The Birth of Jesus (concluded)
Verb ChartsSyllables and AccentsEnclitics and ProcliticsFormsForms of Definite Article, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns Laid Out inCase Order N, V, A, G, DIndex of Language and GrammarGreek to English VocabularyEnglish to Greek VocabularyGeneral IndexAcknowledgmentsCredits