Synopses & Reviews
One of the most successful Classical Greek introductory textbooks, this edition provides an introduction to Classical Greek with an encouraging, pleasant, and accessible presentation for today's modern students. Fifty short lessons presume no knowledge of Latin, and allow students to master a concept before moving on to the next. Each lesson is accompanied by numerous exercises, as well as manageable selections of Ancient Greek writings (edited in early chapters) from Aesop's most amusing and curious fables to concise Greek passages from The New Testament, Aristotle, Arrian, Demosthenes, Lysias, Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
The fourth edition of From Alpha to Omega retains all the features that have made it a best-selling introductory Greek textbook, many of them improved or expanded:
- Balanced, evenly-paced lessons to accommodate various academic schedules
- Brief readings from Ancient Greek authors
- Efficient translation exercises
- Succinct, instructive vocabulary lists
- Glossary containing all vocabulary words from lessons and readings, both Greek-to-English, and English-to-Greek
Online exercises, audio recordings, video tutorials, and more accompany each chapter at courses.pullins.com.
An Ancillary Exercise Workbook and a Greek Reader are also available.
Anne H. Groton is Professor of Classics at St. Olaf College, where she has chaired the Department of Classics and directed the programs in Ancient Studies and Medieval Studies.
Synopsis
Fifty lessons in Classical Greek grammar with readings beginning with Aesop.
Synopsis
From Alpha to Omega is a Classical Greek grammar textbook of fifty lessons with readings beginning with Aesop. Answer Key contains answers to all exercises. The exercise text provides additional exercises, additional explanatory material and answer keys for all exercises in the ancillary text. Online audio files of vocabulary and exercises are available for the first half of the text, developed by David Noe, Calvin College.
Synopsis
For the first year long course in ancient Greek where courses emphasis grammar. Fifty lessons covering all aspects of grammar, words lists, Greek-to-English Glossary, English-to-Greek Glossar, other appendices. Fifty lessons covering all aspects of grammar, words lists, Greek-to-English Glossary, English-to-Greek Glossar, other appendices.
Synopsis
A new edition of the bestselling Ancient Greek textbook, that combines a traditionally rigorous introduction of ancient Greek with an encouraging, pleasant, and accessible presentation for today’s modern students.
About the Author
Anne Groton is Professor of Classics, Department Chair, and Director of Ancient Studies & Medieval Studies at St. Olaf College. She is the author of several articles on ancient drama and two popular textbooks including "From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek," published by Focus. She received the American Philological Association's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics in 1995. Past President of the Classical Association of Minnesota and a former Trustee of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society, she is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface ix
- Lesson 1 Introduction: The Greek Alphabet 1
- Lesson 2 Introduction: The Greek Accents 9
- Lesson 3 Ω-Verbs: Present Active Indicative, Present Active Infinitive, Present Active Imperative 13
- Lesson 4 First Declension: Feminine Nouns, Part 1 21
- Lesson 5 First Declension: Feminine Nouns, Part 2 27
- Lesson 6 Ω-Verbs: Future Active Indicative, Future Active Infinitive 31
- Lesson 7 Second Declension: Masculine Nouns 37
- Lesson 8 Second Declension: Neuter Nouns; Adjectives: First/Second Declension 43
- Lesson 9 First Declension: Masculine Nouns; Substantives 51
- Lesson 10 Ω-Verbs: Imperfect Active Indicative; Correlatives 57
- Lesson 11 Ω-Verbs: Middle/Passive Voice; Prepositions 63
- Lesson 12 ? ?μ?; Enclitics 71
- Lesson 13 Demonstratives 77
- Lesson 14 Personal Pronouns 83
- Lesson 15 Contract Verbs (-?Ω, -?Ω, -?Ω); Contracted Futures 87
- Lesson 16 Third Declension: Stop, Liquid, and Nasal Stems 95
- Lesson 17 Third Declension: Sigma Stems; Adjectives: Third Declension 101
- Lesson 18 Ω-Verbs: First Aorist Active and Middle Indicative, First Aorist Active and Middle Infinitives, First Aorist Active and Middle Imperatives 107
- Lesson 19 Ω-Verbs: Second Aorist Active and Middle Indicative, Second Aorist Active and Middle Infinitives, Second Aorist Active and Middle Imperatives; Reflexive Pronouns 115
- Lesson 20 Ω-Verbs: Perfect Active Indicative, Perfect Active Infinitive; Pluperfect Active Indicative 123
- Lesson 21 Interrogative τ?ς and Indefinite τις 131
- Lesson 22 Ω-Verbs: Perfect Middle/Passive Indicative, Perfect Middle/ Passive Infinitive; Pluperfect Middle/Passive Indicative 137
- Lesson 23 Relative Pronouns; π?ς; Expressions of Time 145
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- Lesson 24 Ω-Verbs: Present Active Participle, Future Active Participle, First and Second Aorist Active Participles, Perfect Active Participle 153
- Lesson 25 Ω-Verbs: Present Middle/Passive Participle, Future Middle Participle, First and Second Aorist Middle Participles, Perfect Middle/Passive Participle 163
- Lesson 26 Direct and Indirect Questions; Alternative Questions 171
- Lesson 27 Ω-Verbs: Aorist Passive Tense 181
- Lesson 28 Ω-Verbs: Future Passive Tense; Future Perfect Active and Middle/Passive Tenses; ο?δ α 189
- Lesson 29 Third Declension: Vowel Stems, Syncopated Stems 195
- Lesson 30 Deponent Verbs; Genitive Absolute; ? ?ς; ο?δ ? ?ς/μηδ ? ?ς 203
- Lesson 31 Adverbs: Positive Degree; Result Clauses 211
- Lesson 32 Adjectives and Adverbs: Comparative and Superlative Degrees; Genitive of Comparison; Partitive Genitive 219
- Lesson 33 Adjectives and Adverbs: Irregular Comparative and Superlative Degrees; -υς, -? ια, -υ Adjectives; Dative of Degree of Difference 227
- Lesson 34 Numerals 235
- Lesson 35 Subjunctive Mood: Present, Aorist, Perfect Tenses; Active, Middle, Passive Voices; Independent Uses of the Subjunctive (Hortatory, Prohibitive, Deliberative) 243
- Lesson 36 Optative Mood: Present, Future, Aorist, Perfect Tenses; Active, Middle, Passive Voices; Independent Uses of the Optative (Wishes, Potentiality) 253
- Lesson 37 Conditions 263
- Lesson 38 Conditional Relative Clauses; Relative Adverbs 271
- Lesson 39 Purpose Clauses 279
- Lesson 40 ? ?μι; Indirect Discourse (?τι/?ς) 285
- Lesson 41 φημ?; Indirect Discourse (with infinitive) 295
- Lesson 42 Indirect Discourse (with participle); Crasis 303
- Lesson 43 More Uses of the Infinitive; πρ?ν 313
- Lesson 44 Verbal Adjectives in -τ?ος and -τ?ς 321
- Lesson 45 Clauses of Effort and Fear 329
- Lesson 46 MI-Verbs (δ ?δ Ωμι, ?στημι) 337
- Lesson 47 MI-Verbs (τ?θημι, ?ημι) 347
- Lesson 48 ΜΙ-Verbs (δ ? ?κν?μι); Unattainable Wishes 355
- Lesson 49 βα?νΩ, γιγν?σκΩ: Directional Suffixes; Accusative of Respect 363
- Lesson 50 Redundant μ?; Uses of μ? ο? & ο? μ?; Attraction of Relative Pronoun 371
- Grammatical Appendix Nouns 381
- Definite Article 385
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- Pronouns 385
- Adjectives 389
- Numerals 394
- Adverbs 396
- Verbs 397
- Word Lists 441
- English-to-Greek Glossary 457
- Greek-to-English Glossary 485
- Index 519