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Print Price: $115.99

Format:
Paperback
464 pp.
191 mm x 231 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190607661

Copyright Year:
2016

Imprint: OUP US

Athenaze, Book I: An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Third Edition

Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall and James Morwood

Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions, the long-awaited third edition combines the best features of traditional and modern teaching methods. It provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. James Morwood, editor of the Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek and the Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, brings his expertise and years of teaching experience to this revision.

Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative, interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars, gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides, Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians. Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are also woven throughout.

Readership : Undergraduate students in Introductory Greek course.

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Maurice Balme was former Head of Classics at Harrow School, UK. Gilbert Lawall is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. James Morwood is Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford.

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Special Features

Short passages from Classical and New Testament Greek in virtually every chapter.
Vocabulary and complete explanations of grammar, including material on accents.
Instructor's Resource Manual available online for Books I and II, containing translations of all stories, readings, and exercises; detailed suggestions for classroom presentation; abundant English derivatives; and additional linguistic information.
Student Workbooks for Books I and II include self-correcting exercises, cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and additional readings.