Complete Ancient Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Ancient Greek, with Original Texts

by Gavin Betts

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Ancient Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the writings of Socrates and Homer.

Structured around authentic material, placing an emphasis on the importance of reading classical texts in the original, and introducing both a grammar perspective and a full introduction to essential vocabulary, this course also

-25 learning units plus maps and verb guide
-Authentic materials - language taught through key texts
-Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding Ancient Greek grammar and vocabulary
-Culture insights - learn about the culture and beliefs of the Ancient Greeks
-Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress.

Featuring additional exercises in this new edition, this is a genuinely comprehensive yet accessible introduction to Ancient Greek.

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 80 years.

Genres: Language

384 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2018

About the author

Gavin Betts was Associated Professor of Classical Studies, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. His publications include Teach Yourself Latin, Teach Yourself New Testament Greek, Teach Yourself New Testament Greek and various translations of medieval and Modern Greek texts.

Reviews

[Niclas · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a ride! This book has accompanied me for several years now; it has become a fixture of my language-learning endeavours. The authors definitely don't take any prisoners. You start with simple aphorisms and end with Homer; and in between you do not even realize that you pass through original texts. One must be a learner endowed with utmost perseverance to make it through the end, but the feeling of writing down the final line about the Lotophagoi is one of supreme joy! It is worth the journey!

[Meg]

I'm using the older edition. According to Amazon, this edition - at £34 quid - now has no index, no answers to exercises and no section 25 on Homeric Greek. You can see these vital sections online. Of course, if you aren't online (like my mum) the book has just been rendered useless! However, it's a bit bigger (it only just fits into my bag now). Whoop de do!
Buy the older edition if these things matter to you. My 1990s edition cost £7.99, which is an interesting commentary on the vast (+400%) price increases at TY Books, in my view unjustifiable! Is it because students are a nice little money earner these days?