Athenaze An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I

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Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Book I (Second Edition) by Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall, presents a structured course for learning Ancient Greek grammar and reading. The preface outlines revised course features such as short excerpts from Classical and New Testament Greek, a recurring “Greek Wisdom” strand, and re-ordered grammar instruction that introduces the future tense and passive voice earlier. The contents specify progressive coverage of verb forms, noun genders and cases, definite article usage, accents, and integrated practice readings and exercises.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages386

Reading Time9 h 54 min

AccessFree to download

Preface

Readings

The Athenian Farmer

Slavery

The Deme and the Polis

Grammar

Verb Forms: Stems and Endings

Nouns: Genders, Stems, Endings, Cases, and Agreement

Use of the Definite Article

Accents

Pronouns, Articles, Adjectives, Nouns

Uses of the Cases

# ATHENAZE AN INTRODUCTlON TO ANCIENT GREEKBOOKI MAURICE BALME andGILBERT LAWALL Second Edition ATHENAZE # An Introduction to Ancient Greek Second Edition Book I Maurice Balme andGilbert Lawallwith drawings by Catherine Balme New York I OxfordOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS2003 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town ChennaDar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi KolkataKuala Lumpur Madrid Melboume Mexico City MumbaiNairobi São Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Copyright ◎2003 by Oxford University Press,Inc. Published by Oxford University Press,Inc.198 Madison Avenue,New York,New York,10016http://www.oup-usa.org Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Balme,M.G. Athenaze:an introduction to ancient Greck,Book I/Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall;with drawings by Catherine Balme.--2nd ed. p.cm. Includes index. ISBN0-19-514956-4 1.Greek language--Grammar.2.Greek language--Readers.I.Lawall,Gilbert.II.Title. PA258.B3252003 488.2'421--dc21 2002045015 Printing number:98765432 PREFACE This second edition of Athenaze was produced on the basis of suggestionsmade by anonymous reviewers contacted by Oxford University Press andwith inspiration from L.Miraglia and T.F.Bórri’s Italian edition ofAthenaze.We are grateful to these teachers and professors and also to the fol-lowing,who read versions of the revised edition at various stages,offered in-numerable helpful suggestions,and caught many errors,typographical andother:Elizabeth Baer of the Berkshire Country Day School,Jessica Mix Bar-rington of the Northfield Mount Hermon School,James Johnson of AustinCollege,Cynthia King of Wright State University,Rosemary Laycock ofDalhousie University,Mark Riley of California State University at Sacra-mento,Kolbeinn Sæmundsson of the Menntask6linní Reykjavík,and RexWallace of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.Thanks also go toLatin teachers in Sunday afternoon Greek classes who used preliminaryversions of the revised chapters and made many useful observations. The new features of the revised textbooks include the following: ·Short passages from Classical and New Testament Greek in virtuallyevery chapter ·A strand titled Greek Wisdom,with sayings of the seven wise men of Ar-chaic Greece at various points throughout Book I and fragments of Hera-clitus at various points throughout Chapters 18-28 in Book II(Greek Wis-dom in Chapter 29 contains material on Socrates) ·Some rearrangement of the sequence in which grammar is introduced,sothat the future tense and the passive voice are now introduced in Book Iand the first three principal parts of verbs are now listed from Chapter 10,with full sets of principal parts being given in Book II,as before ·Fuller grammatical and linguistic explanations throughout,includingmaterial on accents provided along the way,as needed for completing ex-ercises accurately ·New,descriptive terminology used for the tenses of verbs ·Many new exercises,including periodic requests for students to photocopyblank Verb Charts at the ends of Books I and II and to fill in forms of re-quested verbs,adding new forms as they are learned ·New insertions in Book I titled PRACTICE,requesting that students writeout sets of nouns or sets of nouns and matching adjectives ·Presentation of most of the new grammar by Chapter 28 and consolidationof the extracts from Thucydides and Aristophanes'Acharnians in the lasttwo chapters,29 and 30 The purposes of the course remain as they were in the first edition,as theyare spelled out in the Introduction.We hope that inclusion of Classical andNew Testament passages will

FAQs

What language learning approach does Athenaze Book I emphasize?

It combines step-by-step grammar instruction with short reading passages drawn from Classical and New Testament Greek, reinforced by frequent exercises and planned consolidation sections.

Which major topics in grammar are covered early in Book I?

Early coverage includes verb forms (stems, endings, persons), noun structure (genders, cases, agreement), the definite article, and the treatment of accents needed to complete exercises accurately.

What changes does the second edition introduce compared with the first edition?

The revised edition reorders parts of the grammar sequence, adds a recurring Greek Wisdom strand, expands grammatical explanations (including accents), introduces descriptive terminology for tenses, and adds new practice-oriented exercises and inserts in Book I.

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