Introduction to Greek (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

325 Pages·2020·2.663 MB·English, Ancient Greek

by  Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, Susan C. Shelmerdine

I
n t r o d u c t I o n to
GREEK
THIRD EDITION
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Susan C. Shelmerdine
&
Introduction
to Greek
Third Edition

Introduction
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Third Edition
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
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Susan C. Shelmerdine
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Contents
PREFACE ......................................................................................................................xv
Abbreviations....................................................................................................................xviii
MAPS
Greece and the Aegean ......................................................................................................xix
Eastern Mediterranean .......................................................................................................xx
CHAPTER 1 ....................................................................................................................1
1. The Greek alphabet.............................................................................................................1
2. Vowels and diphthongs .....................................................................................................2
3. Consonants .........................................................................................................................2
4. Punctuation marks and capital letters ............................................................................3
5. Breathing marks .................................................................................................................3
6. Accents.................................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2 ....................................................................................................................7
1. The verb: overview .............................................................................................................7
2. Principal parts ....................................................................................................................8
3. Verb accents ........................................................................................................................9
4. Present active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) ...................................9
5. Future active indicative of thematic verbs (2nd principal part) ................................10
6. Consonant combinations with σ ...................................................................................11
Chapter 2 Vocabulary (11) ..............................................................................................11
CHAPTER 3 ..................................................................................................................13
1. The noun and its cases .....................................................................................................13
2. Noun declensions .............................................................................................................14
3. Noun accents ....................................................................................................................14
4. 1st declension nouns ........................................................................................................15
5. 2nd declension nouns ......................................................................................................16
6. Subject–verb agreement ..................................................................................................17
7. Conjunctions and connection ........................................................................................18
8. Reading skills ....................................................................................................................19
Chapter 3 Vocabulary (18) ..............................................................................................20
CHAPTER 4 ..................................................................................................................21
1. The article ..........................................................................................................................21
2. Masculine nouns of the 1st declension .........................................................................22
3. Adverbs ..............................................................................................................................23
4. Prepositions ......................................................................................................................23
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5. Prepositional phrases indicating place and direction.................................................23
6. Dative of means ................................................................................................................24
Chapter 4 Vocabulary (20) ..............................................................................................25
CHAPTER 5 ..................................................................................................................27
1. Aspect in the imperfect and aorist indicative ..............................................................27
2. Imperfect active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) ............................28
3. Aorist active indicative of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) ..................................28
4. The verbs βασιλεύω and πιστεύω ................................................................................30
5. Interrogative pronoun .....................................................................................................30
6. More uses of the article ...................................................................................................31
Chapter 5 Vocabulary (18) ..............................................................................................32
CHAPTER 6 ..................................................................................................................33
1. 1st and 2nd declension adjectives ..................................................................................33
2. Attributive position .........................................................................................................34
3. Predicate position.............................................................................................................35
4. Enclitics .............................................................................................................................36
5. Indefinite pronoun ...........................................................................................................37
6. The conjunctions τε, οὔτε, μέν ... δέ ..............................................................................37
7. Partitive genitive (genitive of the whole) ......................................................................38
Chapter 6 Vocabulary (18) ..............................................................................................39
CHAPTER 7 ..................................................................................................................41
1. 3rd declension nouns .......................................................................................................41
2. Present and imperfect indicative of εἰμί, ‘be’ ...............................................................42
3. Dative of possession .........................................................................................................43
4. The augment for thematic verbs beginning with vowels ............................................44
5. Elision ................................................................................................................................44
6. The article with adjectives...............................................................................................45
7. The article with other parts of speech ...........................................................................45
Reading: Prometheus (Apollodorus, adapted) ...............................................................46
Chapter 7 Vocabulary (18) ..............................................................................................47
CHAPTER 8 ..................................................................................................................49
1. The adjective πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν .........................................................................................49
2. Adjectives of mixed declension ......................................................................................50
3. More on μέν ... δέ .............................................................................................................51
4. The infinitive .....................................................................................................................51
5. Active infinitive of thematic verbs and εἰμί .................................................................52
6. Complementary infinitive ..............................................................................................52
7. οἷός τέ εἰμι ........................................................................................................................53
8. Objective infinitive (indirect command) ......................................................................53
Chapter 8 Vocabulary (20) ..............................................................................................56
CHAPTER 9 ..................................................................................................................57
1. 3rd declension noun variations ......................................................................................57
2. Present active imperative of thematic verbs and εἰμί .................................................58
3. Personal pronouns, 1st and 2nd persons ......................................................................59
4. Personal pronoun, 3rd person ........................................................................................60
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5. αὐτός, adjectival use ........................................................................................................60
6. Time expressions ..............................................................................................................61
7. Accusative of extent of space ..........................................................................................62
8. Compounds with οὐ and μή...........................................................................................63
Reading: Socrates (Plato, adapted) ...................................................................................64
Chapter 9 Vocabulary (20) ..............................................................................................65
CHAPTER 10 ................................................................................................................67
1. Dependent clauses ............................................................................................................67
2. Adverbial clauses ..............................................................................................................67
3. Conditions .........................................................................................................................68
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Simple conditions .................................................................................................68
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Contrary to fact conditions .................................................................................68
4. Contract verbs ..................................................................................................................69
5. Contract verbs in -εω ......................................................................................................69
6. Contract verbs in -αω ......................................................................................................70
7. The verb ζάω .....................................................................................................................71
8. Verbs with two accusatives .............................................................................................72
Reading: Alcestis’ Death (Euripides, adapted) ...............................................................73
Chapter 10 Vocabulary (20) ............................................................................................74
CHAPTER 11 ................................................................................................................75
1. 3rd declension nouns with stems in -εσ .......................................................................75
2. 3rd declension adjectives .................................................................................................76
3. Future active of liquid and nasal verbs (2nd principal part) .....................................76
4. Aorist active of liquid and nasal verbs (3rd principal part) .......................................77
5. Compound verbs ..............................................................................................................77
6. Adjectival relative clauses ...............................................................................................78
Reading: Spartan Assembly (Thucydides, adapted) ......................................................80
Chapter 11 Vocabulary (18) ............................................................................................82
CHAPTER 12 ................................................................................................................83
1. Deponent verbs – present and future tenses ................................................................83
2. 3rd declension nouns with genitive singular in -εως ..................................................85
3. Indirect statement ............................................................................................................85
4. The infinitive in indirect statement ...............................................................................86
5. The adjective πολύς, πολλή, πολύ .................................................................................87
Reading: Cyrus is Helped by Camels (Herodotus, adapted) ........................................90
Chapter 12 Vocabulary (18) ............................................................................................91
CHAPTER 13 ................................................................................................................93
1. Participles ..........................................................................................................................93
2. Present active participle of thematic verbs and εἰμί (1st principal part) .................93
3. Future active participle of thematic verbs (2nd principal part) ................................94
4. Aorist active participle of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) ..................................95
5. Tense of participles ..........................................................................................................96
6. Participle uses ...................................................................................................................96
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Attributive ..............................................................................................................96
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Circumstantial ......................................................................................................97
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Supplementary.......................................................................................................97