Reading Greek Text and Vocabulary

Name: Reading Greek Text and Vocabulary
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ISBN: 9780521698511

ISBN-10: 0521698510

ISBN-13: 9780521698511

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Joint Association of Classical Teachers

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First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors, including Herodotus, Euripides, Aristophanes and Demosthenes, in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. Generous support is provided with vocabulary. At the same time, through the texts and numerous illustrations, students will receive a good…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English




Athens at Sea



A-J. The insurance scam



A-D. The glorious past



A-E. Athens and Sparta



Moral Decay?



A-D. Lawlessness in Athenian life



A-D



A-D. 'Socrates corrupts the young'



A-H. Socrates and intellectual inquiry



Athens through the Comic Poet's Eyes



A-C. Aristophanes' Birds and visions of Utopia



A-J. Aristophanes' Wasps



A-E. Aristophanes' Lysistrata



A-C. Aristophanes' Akharnians



Women in Athenian Society: Sections Twelve to Fourteen


The Prosecution of Neaira



A-I. Neaira as slave



A-I. Neaira as married woman



A-F. Guarding a woman's purity



A-C. Alkestis in Euripides' play



Athenian Views of Justice: Sections Sixteen to Seventeen


Official and Private Justice



A-H. Official justice, ships, state and individuals



A-E. Private justice: trouble down at the farm



A-E. How Zeus gave justice to men



Gods, Fate and Man



A-F. The story of Adrastos



Homeric Hero and Heroine



A-G. Odysseus and Nausikaa; A total Greek-English vocabulary of all words to be learnt