Covering an extensive variety of grammatical constructions, A Little Greek Reader is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses in beginning and intermediate Greek. It presents more than 200 vivid, unadapted passages drawn from the poetry and prose of a wide range of Greek authors including Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Homer, Pindar, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Xenophon. The sections vary in length and difficulty and are arranged according to the specific points of grammar and syntax that they demonstrate.
FEATURES
* Brief introductions for each grammatical principle and reading provide students with context
* Selections are annotated and arranged for maximum classroom flexibility
* Extensive notes below each selection elucidate its meaning or explain interesting or difficult features of Greek grammar, style, and culture
* Appendices offer short biographies of the authors included in the text; coverage of Homeric grammar, Herodotean forms, and New Testament Greek; a guide to two key Greek meters; a list of important literary terms; and a map of Greece and the Aegean
* A complete vocabulary list of unglossed words is included at the end of the book
Introduction About the Authors 1. The Indicative Tenses of the Verb 1.1 Vitruvius 9, Preface 10 1.2 Herodotus, Histories 7.228.2 1.3 Appian, Civil War 2.91 1.4 Pindar, Pythian 8.20 1.5 Euripides, Medea 364 1.6 Demosthenes, De Corona 191 1.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.70.1 1.8 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1066-71 1.9 Euripides, Electra 967-70 1.10 Plato, Crito 43a-b 2. Basic Use of Cases 2.1 Nominative (i) Thucydides, Histories 1.89.1 (ii) Aeschylus, Choephoroe 1-2 2.2 Genitive (i) Plato, Charmides 153a (ii) Plato, Phaedo 118a 2.3 Dative (i) Homer, Odyssey 6.246 (ii) Thucydides, Histories 1.86.3 2.4 Accusative 2.5 Vocative 2.6 Euripides, Supplices 399-405 2.7 St. Luke's Gospel 2.8-12 2.8 Homer, Iliad 1.357-64 2.9 Lysias 1.22-24 2.10 Euripides, Alcestis 185-96 3. Adjectives 3.1 Plato, Ion 533e-534b 3.2 Plato, Symposium 221c 3.3 graffito from Mount Hymettus 3.4 Herodotus, Histories 1.1 3.5 Euripides, Medea 49-55 3.6 Homer, Iliad 6.414-16, 421-30 4. Time, Place and Space 4.1 Plato, Apology 17d 4.2 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1337-42 4.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.14-16 4.4 Homer, Odyssey 2.171-76 4.5 Plato, Laws 642d-e 4.6 Thucydides, Histories 1.94.1-2 4.7 Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 767-76 4.8 Homer, Iliad 1.17-21 4.9 Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.19-20 4.10 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.11 5. Personal Pronouns and his 5.1 Plato, Gorgias 474b 5.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.7 5.3 Plato, Apology 38d-39a 5.4 Euripides, Medea 271-76 5.5 Thucydides, Histories 2.61.2 5.6 Thucydides, Histories 4.78.4 5.7 Antiphon, On the Murder of Herodes 50 5.8 Lysias 1.12-13 5.9 Thucydides, Histories 4.14.1 6. Indefinite and Demonstrative Pronouns 6.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.4 6.2 Euripides, Alcestis 136-40 6.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.13 6.4 Homer, Iliad 10.382-89 6.5 St. Mark's Gospel 14.22-26 6.6 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1047-57 6.7 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.2 6.8 Euripides, Orestes 1140-48 6.9 Demosthenes, De Corona 304-5 6.10 Herodotus, Histories 2.100 7. Participles 1 7.1 Thucydides, Histories 3.112.2 7.2 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.4 7.3 Demosthenes, De Corona 124 7.4 Homer, Iliad 22.131-38 7.5 Thucydides, Histories 6.59.4 7.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.21 7.7 Thucydides, Histories 8.68.1 7.8 Thucydides, Histories 4.39.3 7.9 Thucydides 2.59.2 7.10 Euripides, Fragment 461 8. Relative Clauses 8.1 Menander, Sententiae 560,583 8.2 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.44 8.3 Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus 49-53 8.4 Thucydides, Histories 1.95.5-6 8.5 Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1289-95 8.6 Lysias 12.16-17 8.7 Homer, Iliad 1.35-42 8.8 Andocides, De Mysteriis 61-62 8.9 Euripides, Heraclidae 945-52 8.10 Thucydides, Histories 1.128.5-7 9. Particles 9.1 Plato, Apology 26c 9.2 Homer, Iliad 1 505-10 9.3 Euripides, Hippolytus 1243-48 9.4 Euripides, Electra 228-31 9.5 Sophocles, Ajax 1355-59 9.6 Aristophanes, Lysistrata 908-14 9.7 Herodotus, Histories 2.49.1 9.8 Plato, Lysis 219c 9.9 Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 42 9.10 Homer, Iliad 4.401-5 10. Indirect Statement 10.1(i) Demosthenes, De Corona 169 (ii) Plato, Apology 21c (iii) Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.15 10.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.4 10.3 Euripides, Medea 1293-1300 10.4 Xenophon, Hellenica 4.2.1 10.5 Lysias 23.5-7 10.6 Homer, Iliad 13.361-73 10.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.3.1-3 10.8 Euripides, Medea 446-58 10.9 Plato, Republic 2.359d-60a 10.10 Plato, Republic 2.360a-c 11. Direct and Indirect Questions 11.1 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1-4 11.2 Sophocles, Antigone 1211-12 11.3 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 881-89 11.4 Plato, Protagoras 310d 11.5 Thucydides, Histories 1.5.1-2 11.6 Plato, Apology 21a-b 11.7 Herodotus, Histories 1.31 11.8 Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.45 12. Commands, Prohibitions and Wishes 12.1 Two Extracts from Homer's Odyssey (i) Odyssey 1.1-2 (ii) Odyssey 1.169-72 12.2 Thucydides, Histories 1.86.5 12.3 Two Extracts from Tragedy (i) Aeschylus, Persae 402-5 (ii) Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis 495-99 12.4 St. Luke's Gospel 18.18-25 12.5 Euripides, Phoenissae 1442-53 12.6 Aristophanes, Acharnians 280-99 12.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.12.2-3 12.8 Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.37-39 12.9 Euripides, Electra 1060-73 12.10 Homer, Iliad 3.424-36 13. Purpose Clauses 13.1 Homer, Iliad 2.381 13.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.18 13.4 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.16 13.5 Homer, Iliad 1.522-27 13.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.3 13.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.3 13.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.29.1 13.9 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.2 13.10 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 2.11 13.11 Sophocles, Electra 378-84 14. Result Clauses 14.1 Euripides, Hecuba 730 14.2 Lysias 12.4 14.3 Plato, Symposium 215e-16a 14.4 Sophocles, Antigone 449-55 14.5 St. John's Gospel 3.16 14.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.2-4 14.7 Thucydides, Histories 3.49.1-3 14.8 Euripides, Phoenissae 361-64 14.9 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.17-18 14.10 Lysias 3.6-8 15. Conditionals 1 15.1 Homer, Iliad 1.564 15.2 Plato, Phaedrus 228a 15.3 Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians 23 15.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.41 15.5 Thucydides, Histories 3.54.3-4 15.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.13 15.7 Plato, Republic 5.473c-e 15.8 Aristophanes, Frogs 584-88 15.9 Euripides, Phoenissae 1615-21 15.10 Lysias 7.41 16. Conditionals 2 16.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.16 16.2 Lysias 2.78-80 16.3 Euripides, Helen 68-77 16.4 Plato, Apology 32d 16.5 Homer,Iliad 5.674-82 16.6 Thucydides, Histories 8.96.3-4 16.7 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 34-39 16.8 Homer, Iliad 2, 483-92 16.9 Herodotus, Histories 2.173.2-4 17. Participles 2 17.1 Homer, Iliad 12.392-93 17.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.3.1 17.3 Herodotus 1.30.1 17.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.22 17.5 Euripides, Hecuba 303-5 17.6 Plato, Protagoras 358d 17.7 Plato, Alcibiades 1.115a-b 17.8 Homer, Iliad 24.477-84 17.9 Herodotus 4.136.1-2 17.10 Plato, Euthydemus 272d-e 18. Verbs of Fearing, Precaution and Preventing 18.1(i) Euripides, Medea 37 (ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.9 (iii) Aristophanes, Clouds 492-93 (iv) Thucydides, Histories 3.53.2 (v) Thucydides, Histories 1.136.1 18.2 Euripides, Medea 282-89 18.3 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.6 18.4 Homer, Odyssey 5.299-307 18.5 St. Matthew's Gospel 1.19-22 18.6 (i) Isocrates 2.37 (ii) Sophocles, Trachiniae 1129 (iii) Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione 92 18.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.11 18.8 (i) Herodotus, Histories 2.20.2 (ii) Sophocles, Antigone 441-43 (iii) Plato, Hippias Minor 369d 18.9 Thucydides, Histories 3.1 18.10 Euripides, Phoenissae 1172-86 19. Indefinite sentences 19.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.2 19.2 Homer, Iliad 9.312-13 19.3 Lysias 12.41 19.4 Sophocles, Antigone 574-81 19.5 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.55 19.6 Thucydides, Histories 2.34.3-5 19.7 Demosthenes, De Corona 235 19.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.99.3 19.9 Homer, Iliad 1.163-71 19.10 Xenophon, Agesilaos 7.3 20. Temporal Clauses 20.1 (i) Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.20 (ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.5 (iii) Sophocles, Antigone 91 20.2 Thucydides, Histories 2.21.1-2 20.3 Euripides, Hecuba 10-27 20.4 Arrian, Anabasis 5.18.6 20.5 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.2.31 20.6 (i) I Corinthians 11.26 (ii) Homer, Odyssey 5.55-58 (iii) Isocrates 1.24 (iv) Thucydides, Histories 2.93.1 20.7 Aeschylus, Persae 421-28 20.8 Xenophon, Anabasis 5.7.3-5 20.9 Euripides, Medea 1021-39 21. Impersonal Verbs and Verbal Adjectives 21.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.15 21.2 Plato, Crito 44c 21.3 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.2.28 21.4 Andocides 4.17 21.5 Euripides, Medea 238-43 21.6 Demosthenes, Philippic 3.70 22. Additional Prose Passages 22.1 Herodotus, Histories 1.8 22.2 Herodotus, Histories 2.68 22.3 Thucydides, Histories 6.57 22.4 Thucydides, Histories 8.1 22.5 Xenophon, Hellenica 4.2.10-12 22.6 Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21-22 22.7 Plato, Apology 22a-c 22.8 Plato, Phaedo 117e-18a 22.9 Lucian, Vera Historia 2 35-36 22.10 The Acts of the Apostles 9.1-12 23. Additional Verse Passages 23.1 Homer, Iliad 6, 466-84 23.2 Homer, Odyssey 22.1-21 23.3 Sophocles, Ajax 541-59 23.4 Euripides, Hippolytus 1-22 23.5 Sophocles, Antigone 781-800 23.6 Euripides, Medea 1251-70 23.7 Aristophanes, Frogs 1198-1221 23.8 Aristophanes, Clouds 1-18 23.9 Theocritus 11.17-37 23.10 Callimachus, Epigrammata 2 Appendices The Greek Writers Homer, Herodotus and the New Testament Two Important Greek Meters Literary Terms Map: Greece and the Aegean
Stephen Anderson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and St John's College, Cambridge. Since 1980 he has taught at Winchester College, where he was Head of Classics from 1984 to 2008 and is currently Senior Tutor. He is co-author of a number of classical textbooks widely used in both schools and universities.
Reviews for A Little Greek Reader
A Little Greek Reader has excellent passage selections and is the kind of textbook that can promote lively classroom discussions. --Blaise Nagy, College of the Holy Cross This is a wonderful book! Morwood and Anderson have chosen a great range of canonical authors in both prose and poetry, and the passages are challenging without being impossible or infuriating. --Richard Rader, University of California, Santa Barbara This is a very useful book that will be of great help in the difficult transition between the end of basic language instruction and confrontation with original texts. --The Classical Review
