Writing Greek: An Introduction to Writing in the Language of Classical Athens

by Stephen Anderson, John Taylor

Overview

Planned as a companion volume to Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne and James Morwood, this accessible guide to writing Greek is useful for anyone starting Greek prose composition. Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered, each with thorough explanations and clear examples. Each chapter has either two or three exercises of practice sentences, further supplemented throughout Part 2 by passages for continuous composition. 100 important irregular verbs with their principal parts are listed at the back of the book, and there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises, a useful learning and revision resource in itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472502865
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/12/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Stephen Anderson is Senior Tutor and a former Head of Classics at Winchester College. He is co-author of Greek Unseen Translation and of Advanced Latin: Materials for A2 and Pre-U.
John Taylor is Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, Kent. He is the author of Greek to GCSE Parts 1 and 2, Greek beyond GCSE, Essential GCSE Latin, and Latin beyond GCSE.
Stephen Anderson was for many years Head of Classics at Winchester College, UK, and is now Rodewald Lector in Classical Languages at New College, University of Oxford, UK. He is co-author of a number of textbooks, including Advanced Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), Writing Greek (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and OCR Anthology for Classical Greek, AS&A-Level 2019-21 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and now teaches Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is author of Greek to GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Greek Beyond GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), co-author of Writing Greek (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and Greek Stories (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and also author or co-author of a number of Latin textbooks.

Table of Contents

Introduction
List of abbreviations
Glossary of grammar terms
PART I
1. Basic use of cases
2. Definite article
3. Time, place and space
4. Use of adjectives
5. Verb tenses
6. Participles I
7. Pronouns I
8. Pronouns II
9. Relative clauses
10. Connection
PART 2
11. Indirect statement
12. Questions
13. Commands, exhortations and wishes
14. Purpose clauses
15. Result clauses
16. Conditional sentences
17. Participles II
18. Verbs of fearing, precaution and preventing
19. Indefinites
20. Temporal clauses
21. Impersonal verbs; Accusative absolute; Gerundives
Appendices
1 Passages from North and Hillard
2 Uses ofthe subjunctive and optative
3 Negatives and their main uses
4 Prepositions
5 Accents
6 Principal parts of 100 important
irregular verbs
Vocabulary
Index