Product Description

First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume provides full grammatical support together with numerous exercises at different levels. For the second edition the presentations of grammar have been substantially revised to meet the needs of today’s students and the volume has been completely redesigned, with the use of colour. Greek-English and English-Greek vocabularies are provided, as well as a substantial reference grammar and language surveys. The accompanying Text and Vocabulary volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills, simultaneously receiving a good introduction to Greek culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75591 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Review
'Grammar and Exercises is unique - in comparison to alternative learning Greek material - in its comprehensibility. … a comprehensive guide to learning ancient Greek … Moreover, the book is accessible to independent learners and those on distance-learning courses.' The Journal of Classics Teaching

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and greatly improved
Having worked my way through almost all of the JACT course using the previous edition I decided to buy the new edition to use to complete the course and as a refresher to go back over past material. The new format is much improved in almost every respect. Perhaps the best new feature is the now combined text and vocab. in one book which prevents flipping back and forth between two books. Visually a great improvement as well, with the introduction of a second colour, new layout and better font. As a self-taught (not very proficient - yet) Greek student, the JACT course is still the best of the ones that I have used. The only downside is that now the larger format means heavier hand luggage for the daily commute but that is outweighed by the improvements overall.