An Introduction to Classical Greek

Author: F. A. Pragnell
Publisher: Galore Park Publishing
ISBN: 9781905735884
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
This textbook is ideal for any pupil working towards Level 1 or Level 2 of the Common Entrance Classical Greek exam at 13+. It introduces pupils to Greek grammar and vocabulary and features clear explanations and challenging practice questions to help pupils develop their exam technique. Several unseen passages are also included, to help pupils perfect their translation skills. Suitable for ISEB 13+ Greek exams up to and including Summer 2014. - Endorsed by ISEB - Ideal for pupils working towards Levels 1 or Level 2 of the Classical Greek Common Entrance exam at 13+ - Introduces pupils to essential Greek grammar and vocabulary - Features clear explanations followed by extensive practice questions so pupils can check what they have learnt - Unseen passages to help pupils perfect their translation skills are also included An Answer Book is also available to accompany this book.

Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek

Author: Michael Boler
Publisher: Catholic Education Press
ISBN: 1949822028
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
The defining feature of this textbook is the treatment of classical and New Testament Greek as one language using primary sources. All the example sentences the students will translate are real Greek sentences, half of which are taken from classical literature and philosophy and half of which are directly from the New Testament. The advantage of this approach is that it highlights the linguistic, literary, and historical connections between classical Greece and early Christianity. Rather than having students memorize isolated tables and artificial sentences, Michael Boler spent years combing through thousands of pages of literature, philosophy, and scripture to find short, powerful sentences that not only teach the grammatical concepts in each chapter, but also contain seeds of wisdom that will spark wonder and discussion. Introduction to New Testament and Classical Greek is born out of classroom experience in a Catholic liberal arts university whose students were disappointed to be forced to choose between textbooks that taught classical Greek in isolation and ones that focused exclusively on the New Testament. By the end of this book, students will have read over 200 lines of scripture and an equal amount of ancient literature from Homer to Aristotle. They will also have the grammatical knowledge to continue to read classical and New Testament Greek. Each chapter contains a section at the end that delves deeply into the etymology and background of the words and passages encountered in the respective chapter. Professors will thus be able to use these chapters as a bridge to philosophical, theological, historical, and literary topics that will enrich the class.

Ancient Greek I

Author: Philip S. Peek
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800642571
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 606

Book Description
In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections in English and in Greek offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection. A series of embedded Learning Tips help teachers and students to think in practical and imaginative ways about how they learn. This combination of memory-based learning and concept- and skill-based learning gradually builds the confidence of the reader, teaching them how to learn by guiding them from a familiarity with the basics to proficiency in reading this beautiful language. Ancient Greek I: A 21st-Century Approach is written for high-school and university students, but is an instructive and rewarding text for anyone who wishes to learn ancient Greek.

An Introduction to Classical Greek Answer Book

Author: Stephen Anderson
Publisher: Galore Park Publishing
ISBN: 9781905735860
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
This answer book contains all the answers to the exercises in An Introduction to Classical Greek. - Endorsed by ISEB - Features a complete set of answers to the exercises in An Introduction to Classical Greek - Ideal to save you time marking work and identifying areas that require further study

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.

A History of the Classical Greek World

Author: P. J. Rhodes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444358588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Book Description
Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek world Features new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the Aegean Enlarged and additional maps and illustrative material Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great Focuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpreted

The Classical Greek Reader

Author: Kenneth John Atchity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195123034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
The wonders of the Greek world are presented in a modern, accessible manner, perfect for those looking to refresh their acquaintance with the classics and for those who have yet to explore the exciting intellectual energy of ancient Greece. Atchity focuses not only on the big names but also on the less-familiar voices--the women, doctors, storytellers, herbalists, and romance writers of the time. 43 photos.

Introduction to Greek

Author: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585109622
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
A widely adopted textbook for first-year Classical Greek, Introduction to Greek has been rethought from the ground up in this third edition to make it even more effective and user friendly. Features include:Streamlined coverage of grammar with fewer chaptersReorganized and clarified presentation of grammarA greater number and wider range of exercisesAdditional adapted and unadapted ancient sentences and readingsReduced vocabulary with focus on high-frequency wordsExtra self-tutorial translation exercises with an answer key

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198727887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542

Book Description
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.

Athenaze

Author: Maurice Balme
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190607678
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.