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GREEK 1A/B and GREEK 1hA/B
TEXTS

 

Line drawing of inside the Ancient Library at Alexandria

Artistic reconstruction of the Great Library of Alexandria (O. Von Corven)

REQUIRED TEXTS

(Available from Blackwells)

Betts, G., Teach Yourself Ancient Greek (TYAG)

(McGraw-Hill)

ISBN: 034086785x

The TYAG Web Site has supplementary help & exercises.

 

Morwood, J., Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (OGCG)

(Oxford Univ. Press)

ISBN: 0198604564

 

Campbell, M., Classical Greek

Prose: A Basic Vocabulary

(Bristol Classical Press)

ISBN: 1853995592

 

For Greek 1B

In addition to the above texts:

Course Pack with extracts from Lysias' On the Murder of Eratosthenes and Euripides' Medea.

 

 

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

If you continue with Greek you will no doubt wish to acquire your own copies of key resources such as the Liddell & Scott Greek-English Lexicon.

 

In the meantime, many excellent Greek language texts are now accessible and even downloadable online. Here are links to the most important ones:

 

Greek-English Dictionaries

Liddell, H. & R. Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon online ('Middle Liddell')

 

Liddell, H. & R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon ('Big Liddell')

 

English-Greek Dictionaries

Liddell, H. & R. Scott, Search English-Greek via Perseus tool

 

Woodhouse, S.C., (1910) English-Greek Dictionary

 

Greek Reference Grammars

Gildersleeve, B., (1900) Syntax of Classical Greek

 

Goodwin, W., (1879) Greek Grammar (pdf)

 

Goodwin, W., (1889) Syntax of the Moods & Tenses of the Greek Verb (pdf)

 

Gunion Rutherford, W., (1891) First Greek Grammar Accidence (pdf)

 

Gunion Rutherford, W., (1891) First Greek Grammar Syntax (pdf)

 

Perseus Database, Morphological Look-up Tool

 

Rydebrg-Cox, J. An Overview of Greek Syntax

 

Smyth, H., (1920) Greek Grammar (pdf) and online Smyth via Perseus

 

Greek Prose Composition

North,M. A. & A.E. Hillard, (1910) Greek Prose Composition and Key (pdf)

 

Sidgwick, A,. (1887) An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (pdf)

 

 

Finally, here are rwo very useful texts available in print form:

 

Marinone, N., (1961) All the Greek Verbs

(Duckworth) ISBN: 0715617729

 

Probert, P., (2003)A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek

(Bristol Classical Press) ISBN: 1853995991

 

 

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