First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume, translations of all the texts, answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume and cross-references to the relevant fifth-century background in The World of Athens. There are instructions of how to use the course and the Study Guide. The book will also be useful to students in schools, universities and summer schools who have to learn Greek rapidly.
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Updated to accompany the second edition of Reading Greek, a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek, this Study Guide includes notes on and translations of the Greek texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume and answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume.
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Preface; 1. The insurance fraud; 2. The glorious past; 3. Athens and Sparta; 4. Lawlessness in Athenian life; 5. 'Socrates corrupts the young'; 6. Socrates and Strepsiades; 7. Socrates and intellectual inquiry; 8. Aristophanes' Birds; 9. Aristophanes' Wasps; 10. Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 11. Aristophanes' Akharnians; 12. Neaira as slave; 13. Neaira as married woman; 14. Guarding a woman's purity; 15. Alkestis in Euripides' play; 16. Official justice: ships, state and individuals; 17. Private justice: trouble down at the farm; 18. How Zeus gave justice to men; 19. The story of Adrastos; 20. Odysseus and Nausikaa.
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'The quality of this course is now very hard to match indeed.' Journal of Classics Teaching
Updated guide and answer-book for those using the second edition of Reading Greek.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521698504
Publisert
2008-04-10
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
247 mm
Bredde
175 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
276