Synopses & Reviews
Major revisions in this widely used text include:
1. Larger typefaces for all Greek paradigms;
2. Greatly expanded vocabularies, both Greek-English and English-Greek;
3. New review exercises for each lesson in both Greek and English;
4. New appendices listing 75 irregular verbs with their principal parts and the prepositions with their meanings. At many points the expositions, notes, and lesson vocabularies are expanded and the English sentences revised.
About the Author
Alston Hurd Chase is Chairman of the Department of the Classics, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.Henry Phillips, Jr., is Professor of Greek, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.
Table of Contents
1. The Greek Alphabet. Punctuation
2. Accents
3. First and Second Declensions. The Declension of
αγαθος. The Declension of the Definite Article
4. First Declension Nouns (Continued). The Relative Pronoun
5. Regular Verbs: Present and Future Indicative Active. Infinitive in Indirect Discourse
6. The Third Or Consonant Declension. Clauses of Result
7. Irregular and Neuter Nouns of the Third Declension. Expressions of Time. Dative of Possession
8. The Imperfect. The First and Second Aorists Indicative and Infinitive
9. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs. Declension of
ηδιων 10. Demonstratives
11. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns. Enclitics. Dative and Accusative of Respect
12. The Verb
ειμι. The Pronoun
αυτος 13. MI-Verbs: Present, Imperfect, and First and Second Aorist Indicative Active of
ιςτημι and Compound
διδωμι. Verbs
14. MI-Verbs: Present, Imperfect, and Second Aorist Indicative Active of
τιθημι ιημι. Present and Imperfect of
δεικνυμι.
15. Contract Verbs:
τιμαω and
φιλεω 16.
δηλοω. Future of Liquid Verbs. Personal Pronouns
17. Adjectives in
-υς, -
εια, -
υ, and -
ης, -
ες. Adjectives and Contract Adjectives
18. Declensions of
πας,
μεγας, and
πολυς 19. Present, Future, and Second Aorist Participles Active and Contract Verbs
20. First Aorist Active Participle of
Ω-Verbs. Present and Second Aorist Participles Active of
MI-Verbs
21. Uses of the Participle
22. Present and Aorist Subjunctive Active. Future More Vivid and Present General Conditions
23. The Optative. Purpose Clauses with
ινα,
ως, and
οπως.
24. Future Less Vivid and Past General Conditions. Indirect Discourse with
οτι and
ως. Indirect Questions
25. The Middle and Passive Voices. Present Indicative, Middle and Passive. Future Indicative Middle. Clauses Expressing Fear
26. Imperfect Middle and Passive and Second Aorist Middle. Temporal Clauses
27. First Aorist Middle. Reflexive Pronouns. Contrary-to-Fact Conditions
28. Present Middle and Passive and Aorist Middle Subjunctive. The Hortatory Subjunctive
29. The Middle and Passive Optative
30. The Aorist Passive and the Future Passive. Dative of Means and Genitive of Personal Agent
31. The First and Second Perfect Active
32. The Perfect and Pluperfect Middle and Passive of Vowel Stems. Dative of Personal Agent
33. Perfect Middle and Passive System of Mute Stems
34. The Imperative of
Ω- and Contract Verbs
35. The Imperative of
MI-Verbs
36. Summary of Verbs
37. Numerals
38. Irregular Second Aorists
39. Imperative of
ειμι. Conjugation of
ειμι.
40. Conjugation of
φημι and
οιδα. Verbal Adjectives. Clauses of Effort
Appendices
1. Names Mentioned in the Text
2. Declensions
3. Pronouns and Adverbs
4. Cardinal and Ordinal Numerals and Numeral Adverbs
5. Ω-Verbs
6. Contract Verbs
7. MI-Verbs
8. Summary of Syntax
9. The Prepositions, With Their Commonest Meanings
10. Irregular Verbs, With Their Principal Parts
Greek-English Vocabulary
English-Greek Vocabulary