Reading Ancient Greek

Overview

A text for the second course in Greek. The new edition has beencompletely reformatted and vocabulary and notes are now provided for the extra reading selections.

Table of contents

PREFACE to Second Edition
PREFACE to First Edition
ABBREVIATIONS
LESSON 1 - Review: The New Testament. Saint Mark: Jesus is Brought Before the Sanhedrin.
LESSON 2 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus is Accused.
LESSON 3 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus Replies to the High Priest.LESSON 4 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus is Reviled.
LESSON 5 - Review: Saint Mark: Peter Denies Jesus.
LESSON 6 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus Before Pilot.
LESSON 7 - Review: Saint Mark: The Crowd Asks Pilate for the Release of a Prisoner.
LESSON 8 - Review: Saint Mark:Pilate Gives in to the Crowd.
LESSON 9 - Review: The Vocative Case. Saint Mark: The Soldiers Mock Jesus.
LESSON 10 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus is Crucified.
LESSON 11 - Review: Saint Mark: Jesus on the Cross.
LESSON 12 - Comprehensive Review. Saint Mark: Jesus Dies.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - Saint Luke.
LESSON 13 - Herodotus. The Ionic Dialect. Herodotus: Candaules and His Wife.
LESSON 14 - The Imperative Mood. Imperative: Second Person of. Herodotus: Candaules Gives Gyges an Unwelcome Order.
LESSON 15 - Imperative: Second Person of Contract and. Herodotus: Candaules' Plan.
LESSON 16 - Imperative: Third Person. Herodotus: Gyges in the Royal Bedroom.
LESSON 17 - Imperative: Review. Herodotus: Gyges is Discovered.
LESSON 18 - The Subjunctive Mood. Subjunctive: Active and Aorist Passive of. Herodotus: Gyges' Choice.
LESSON 19 - Subjunctive: Present Active of Contract Verbs. Hortatory Subjunctive. Herodotus: Gyges' Decision.
LESSON 20 - Subjunctive: Active of. Prohibitive Subjunctive. Herodotus: Gyges Becomes King.
LESSON 21 - Subjunctive: Middle/Passive of. Herodotus: The Story of Arion.
LESSON 22 - Subjunctive: Present Middle/Passive of Contract Verbs. Deliberative Subjunctive. Herodotus: Arion's Journey to Corinth.
LESSON 23 - Subjunctive: Middle/Passive of. Herodotus: Arion Gives a Performance.
LESSON 24 - Subjunctive: Summary of Forms. Herodotus: Arion is Vindicated.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - Archilochus.
LESSON 25 - Plato. Classical Attic. Plato: Socrates Prepares to Die.
LESSON 26 - The Subjunctive in Conditional Sentences. Plato: Socrates' Advice to His Friends.
LESSON 27 - The Subjunctive in Purpose Clauses. Liquid Futures. Plato: Socrates Kids Crito.
LESSON 28 - The Subjunctive in Clauses of Fear. Plato: Socrates Discusses Burial.
LESSON 29 - Subjunctive: Summary of Syntax. Plato: Socrates Bathes.
LESSON 30 - The Perfect. First Perfect Active Indicative and Infinitive. Perfect Stem of Contract Verbs. Plato: The Servant of the Eleven.
LESSON 31 - First Perfect Active Participle. First Perfect Active of. Plato: The Servant of the Eleven Bids Socrates Good-Bye.
LESSON 32 - First Pluperfect Active Indicative. First Perfect Active of Consonant Verb Stems. Plato: Socrates Refuses to Delay.
LESSON 33 - Second Perfect Active. Second Perfect of. Plato: The Hemlock is Prepared.
LESSON 34 - Perfect Middle/Passive Indicative, Infinitive, and Participle. Perfect Middle/Passive of Contract and. Plato: Socrates Drinks the Hemlock.
LESSON 35 - Pluperfect Middle/Passive Indicative. Perfect Middle/Passive of Consonant Verb Stems. Other Moods and Tenses of the Perfect. Plato: Socrates' Friends Break Down and Cry.
LESSON 36 - Perfect Tense: Summary and Review. Plato: Socrates Dies.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - Xenophon.
LESSON 37 - Babrius. Babrius: The Inflated Toad, the Ant and the Grasshopper.
LESSON 38 - The Meter of Babrius's Poetry. Babrius: The Fox and the Crow, Cat or Bag?
LESSON 39 - The Conjugation of. Babrius: The Oak and the Reeds, Advice from a Parent.
LESSON 40 - Babrius: The Mouse and the Lion, the Dancing Camel.
LESSON 41 - Babrius: The Country Mouse and the City Mouse (Part I).
LESSON 42 - The Optative Mood. Optative: Active of. Babrius: The Country Mouse and the City Mouse (Part II), the Gnat on the Bull's Horn.
LESSON 43 - Optative: Present Active of Contract Verbs. The Optative of Wish. Babrius: The Fox and the Grapes, the Wolf and the Lamb.
LESSON 44 - Optative: Active of, Aorist Passive. Potential Optative. Babrius: The Dying Lion and the Clever Fox.
LESSON 45 - Optative: Middle/Passive of. The Optative in Conditional Sentences. Babrius: Dr. Frog, the Beauty Contest, the Greedy Dog.
LESSON 46 - Optative: Present Middle/Passive of Contract Verbs. The Optative in Purpose Clauses. Babrius: The North Wind and the Sun, Who is the Thief?
LESSON 47 - Optative: Middle/Passive of. The Optative in Clauses of Fear. Other Tenses of the Optative. Babrius: The Flying Turtle, the Musical Fisherman.
LESSON 48 - Optative: Summary of Forms and Syntax. Babrius: The Amorous Lion, Time to Die.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - Hipponax.
LESSON 49 - The Odyssey of Homer. The Language of Homer. The Odyssey: In the Cave with the Cyclops.
LESSON 50 - The Meter of Epic. The Odyssey: The Cyclops Tests Odysseus.
LESSON 51 - The Odyssey: The Cyclops Shows His True Nature.
LESSON 52 - The Odyssey: The Second Day in the Cave.
LESSON 53 - The Odyssey: Odysseus Makes Preparations.
LESSON 54 - The Odyssey: The Cyclops Returns.
LESSON 55 - The Odyssey: The Cyclops Drinks the Wine.
LESSON 56 - The Odyssey: The Blinding of the Cyclops.
LESSON 57 - The Optative in Indirect Statements and Indirect Questions. The Odyssey: The Agony of the Cyclops.
LESSON 58 - The Odyssey: Trapped in the Cave.
LESSON 59 - The Odyssey: Preparations for Escape.
LESSON 60 - The Odyssey: A Touching Scene.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - The Iliad.
LESSON 61 - Euripides. The Language and Meter of Euripides. Euripides: Jason Comes to Offer Help.
LESSON 62 - The Future Passive Tense. Euripides: Medea's Rage.
LESSON 63 - Euripides: The Value of Oaths.
LESSON 64 - Euripides: Alone and Abandoned.
LESSON 65 - Contrary to Fact Conditions. Euripides: The Power of Love.
LESSON 66 - Euripides: A Good Plan?
LESSON 67 - Euripides: A World Without Women?
LESSON 68 - Euripides: Jason's Motives are Debated.
LESSON 69 - Euripides: Jason's Final Offer.
LESSON 70 - Euripides: Medea's Vengeance.
LESSON 71 - Euripides: Euripides: A Barbarian Wife.
LESSON 72 - Euripides: Final Insults.
EXTRA READING SELECTION - Sophocles.
APPENDIX A - Suffixes and Models for Memorization.
APPENDIX B - Vocabulary for Memorization.
CUMULATIVE VOCABULARY
INDEX