- Paperback: 399 pages
- Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (29 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340800151
- ISBN-13: 978-0340800157
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,403,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This title is for anyone wishing to learn ancient Greek. It is written for the self study student, and may be used in class or to supplement a course. It has its own website with revision exercises.
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Gavin Betts (retired) was Associated Professor of Classical Studies, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Alan Henry is Professor of Classical Studies, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Alan Henry is Professor of Classical Studies, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book may appear to overload the complete beginner with accidence (that is the word endings) and there are many substantial tables of noun declension and verb charts, but the fact of the matter is that these are unavoidable and essential for the comprehension of even the most basic of Ancient greek texts so to ommit or dilute them would be unwise.
This book lacks enough grammatical depth in some instances and focuses heavily of describing the syntax etc. rather than explaining it which may lead to some confusion but to make up for this it provides the reader with a very well-rounded and complete set of vocabulary (particularly for complete beginners) and most of the texts are drawn from original sources.
By the end of the course you are reading original and unadapted texts, which is after all the main reason of studying this ancient language.
If used alongside another course, for example Reading Greek or equivilant, it proves to be a helpful reference tool and alternative to other texts.
This book lacks enough grammatical depth in some instances and focuses heavily of describing the syntax etc. rather than explaining it which may lead to some confusion but to make up for this it provides the reader with a very well-rounded and complete set of vocabulary (particularly for complete beginners) and most of the texts are drawn from original sources.
By the end of the course you are reading original and unadapted texts, which is after all the main reason of studying this ancient language.
If used alongside another course, for example Reading Greek or equivilant, it proves to be a helpful reference tool and alternative to other texts.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is definitely not for beginners. It is dense, difficult, demanding, and not very well laid out. Novices will be struggling from the very outset to get a handle on even the basics. The authors are merciless. For anybody who has previous experience of Classical Greek however this book might function as an excellent aid to revision, and a useful bridge to Classical Greek for anybody who has only ever done New Testament Greek. Otherwise give this grammar a wide berth.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have the TY book for Ancient Greek and Beginner's Greek Script. I worked through the latter within a couple of weeks and it was a very good introduction to pronunciation, alphabet, and basic vocabulary for contemporary Greek. The former, (the subject of this review), is a much more comprehensive and infinately more advanced text, being very clear about the difficulty of learning Ancient Greek from this book alone. I have conquered the first couple of chapters, and I am very pleased with the direct way that concepts are introduced, leaving the general language jargon up to the reader to learn seperately, (eg, vocative, genitive, nominative... ), but explaining the conditions specifically applicable to the Greek language. I compiled a glossary of approaching 100 terms when working through the first 20 pages or so, as all appropriate key words are used without introduction, (a good thing).
The explanations are excellent and the book seems to achieve it's aim at giving direct explanations in the best possible format to a person prepared to put in a lot of hard work. The frequent interludes of Greek History give the book excellent balance, and the exercises are consistent with the optimal standard of this book, giving lots of opportunity to practice skills such as translating; (for example, the exercise for chapter 2, (of 24 or 25), gives 15 example sentences which each take 20 minutes or so to complete). Overall, this book is very pleasing value for money and is exactly what I hoped for; and is consistent with my opinion that if a subject is hard, it can't be made easier by dressing it up in gimmicks and metaphor, it should be direct and honest like this book.
The explanations are excellent and the book seems to achieve it's aim at giving direct explanations in the best possible format to a person prepared to put in a lot of hard work. The frequent interludes of Greek History give the book excellent balance, and the exercises are consistent with the optimal standard of this book, giving lots of opportunity to practice skills such as translating; (for example, the exercise for chapter 2, (of 24 or 25), gives 15 example sentences which each take 20 minutes or so to complete). Overall, this book is very pleasing value for money and is exactly what I hoped for; and is consistent with my opinion that if a subject is hard, it can't be made easier by dressing it up in gimmicks and metaphor, it should be direct and honest like this book.
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Why does it use the wrong sigma?
I bought this book, having some knowledge of contemporary Greek, and wishing to further my depth of understanding of the origins of the language. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2008 by Dr. Stephen Clewer
Very good book!
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Published on 28 Nov 2007 by Busoi Marian
Layout lacking
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Published on 10 May 2006 by J Grainger
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Published on 12 Mar 2006 by JR Anderson
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Published on 12 Mar 2004
In general an excellent introduction
This book starts right at the beginning and takes you finally to the ability to read reasonably simple extracts from the major dramatists,Homer,Thucydides and Herodotus, The... Read more
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