2nd Edition. — Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Berkeley, 2013. — 512 pp. — ISBN: 0520275713
Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available.
The text features:
Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts
Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises
Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax
Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides.
Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language
Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms
Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries
The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek
The Alphabet; Pronunciation
Accentuation
O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I
A-Declension Nouns I; The Article
Present Active Indicative of ω-Verbs
A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II
Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication
Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and Relative Clauses
Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives
Present of εἰμί; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative
Present Middle/Passive Indicative
Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun αὐτός; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV
Contract Verbs in -έω; Demonstratives
Consonant-Declension Nouns I
Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun
Imperfect Indicative
Indefinite τις; Uses of the Accusative
Future Active and Middle Indicative
Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative
Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse
Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns
Consonant-Declension Adjectives
Present System of μι-Verbs
Athematic Aorists
Adjectives with Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions
Participles: Formation and Declension
Uses of the Participle I
Uses of the Participle II; οἶδα
Aorist Passive and Future Passive
Contract Verbs in -άωand -όω; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative
Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
The Subjunctive
Formation of the Optative
Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse with ὅτι; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative
Conditional Constructions
Indicative with ἄν; Correlatives; More Particles
Perfect System Active
Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns
Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses with Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects
O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives in -τόςand -τέος; Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes
Temporal Clauses with ἕωςand the Like; πρίν; Attraction
Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood