Greek Beyond GCSE / Edition 2

by John Taylor

Overview

Greek Beyond GCSE covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS and A Level in Classical Greek. It aims to bring students to a point where they can tackle original Greek texts with confidence. Although designed as a continuation of Greek to GCSE, it is self-contained and can be used independently.

This second edition is brought in line with the current OCR specifications. The first part of the book introduces new constructions accompanied by exercises including the translation of sentences from English to Greek and reading passages(which in the opening chapters are lightly adapted). The next sections provide translation and comprehension passages at both AS and A Level standard, including verse unseens, scansion, and a list of 300 common poetic words (new to this edition). Next come longer unadapted extracts from a range of authors. Finally there is a reference section including a summary of all constructions, a comprehensive grammar, various appendices and a vocabulary of about 1,200 Greek words.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474299756
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/21/2017
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is an experienced examiner of Ancient Greek and the author of the widely used textbooks Greek to GCSE (revised edition, Bloomsbury, 2016);and (with Stephen Anderson) Greek Unseen Translation (Bloomsbury, 2005) and Writing Greek (Bloomsbury, 2010).

Table of Contents

Preface     viii
List of abbreviations     ix
Map     x
Glossary of grammar terms     xi
Chapter 1
Direct and indirect questions     1
Correlatives     4
Table of correlatives     5
Libyans and Pygmies     8
Crocodiles     9
Use of the subjunctive     10
Jussive subjunctive and prohibition     11
Deliberative question     11
Use of the optative     12
Wishes     13
Peisistratus (1)     14
Peisistratus (2)     16
Conditional sentences (1)     18
Open/unknown conditions     18
The Infancy of Cyrus (1)     20
Conditional sentences (2)     22
Future remote conditions     22
Present and past closed conditions     22
Summary table of conditionals     23
Potential optative or indicative with [characters not reproducible]     24
Chapter 2
Perfect tense     25
Irregular perfect tenses     28
The Infancy of Cyrus (2)     29
Pluperfect tense     30
Deponent verbs conjugated like perfect middle     32
The Boyhood of Cyrus (1)     33
Numerals     35
Prepositions     36
Table of prepositions     37
Compound verbs     38
Verbs with omicron contraction     40
The Boyhood of Cyrus (2)     42
Subordination and the complex sentence     44
Flexibility in translation     45
Four important idioms     47
Chapter 3
Verbs ending in -[mu iota]     49
The use of [characters not reproducible]     51
The Fallen of Chaeronea     53
Time clauses     54
Timolaus and the Spartans     57
More middles     58
Verbs with dependent participle     60
The Flight of Themistocles     63
Verbs of fearing     64
Themistocles in Persia (1)     66
Nouns and adjectives with epsilon contraction     67
Privative alpha and compound adjectives     68
Themistocles in Persia (2)     69
Particles     70
Themistocles in Persia (3)     72
Chapter 4
Impersonal verbs     73
Accusative absolute     75
Astyochus and the Chians     76
More complex relative clauses     77
Articular infinitive (gerund)     79
Xenophon on Agesilaus (1)     81
Indefinite construction     83
Xenophon on Agesilaus (2)     85
Verbal adjective (gerundive)     86
Listening to the Cicadas     88
Dual forms     90
Crasis and elision     91
Timon of Athens     92
Third person imperatives     94
Subordinate (especially conditional) clauses in indirect speech     95
Readings
The Choice of Xenophon     97
The Sea, the Sea     99
Gobryas the Assyrian     102
An Adulterer Apprehended     105
The Curse of Cylon     111
Conon and his Gang     114
The Origins of Virtue     118
The Lost Atlantis     123
A Spartan Childhood     129
Anacharsis and Athletics     134
Summaries of syntax
Use of cases     141
Use of the definite article     142
Overview of constructions covered in Greek to GCSE     144
Use of participles     144
Relative clauses     144
Indirect statement     144
Indirect question      144
Purpose clauses     144
Result clauses     145
Conditionals     145
Tense and aspect in the aorist     147
Sequence of moods and tenses     148
Uses of the subjunctive     149
Uses of the optative     150
Uses of [characters not reproducible]     152
Uses of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]     153
Reference Grammar
The definite article     155
Nouns: First declension     155
Nouns: Second declension     156
Nouns: Third declension     156
Adjectives     159
Comparison of adjectives     161
Participles     162
Pronouns     165
Numerals     169
Correlatives     171
Prepositions     172
Verbs (1): ending in -[omega]     173
Verbs (2): contracted (ending in -[alpha omega], -[epsilon omega], -o[omega])     179
Verbs (3): irregular     182
Verbs (4): ending in -[mu iota]     184
Verbs (5): 30 important irregular aorists     187
Principal parts of 100 common irregular verbs     188
Appendices
Words easily confused     192
Greek and Latin constructions compared     194
Vocabulary
English to Greek     196
Greek to English     220
Index     240