An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek

Reading Greek

by Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Greek Course

First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume, translations of all the texts, answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume and cross-references to the relevant fifth-century background in The World of Athens. There are instructions of how to use the course and the Study Guide. The book will also be useful to students in schools, universities and summer schools who have to learn Greek rapidly.

Genres: Language, Reference, Linguistics, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Classics

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Koen Crolla · Rating 3 out of 5]

(The suggested entry point for Reading Greek is the Text and Vocabulary book, so that's where my review is.)

[Katrin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not really useful if you only own this one. You would actually need two more books, between which is crossreferred constantly. Well, I did not plan to really learn ancient greek, I'm quite happy with the modern greek I know :D But I'm interested in the history of this awesome language. For this the book did a quite well job. Knowing modern greek I could understand enough things. The stories were really interesting, I enjoyed a lot to read the classic literary efforts of the ancient greeks. The grammar looks so difficult to me, I'm glad I only have to learn modern greek. :P It actually is only a guide for other books, without a glossary, dictionary or such.