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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To complement the other review, *Wilding* and *Abbott and Mansfield* are the two books I began Greek with in 1998. I liked them then, and I'd recommend them now - I found the selections from Xenophon and Herodotus to be fascinating glimpses of ancient life. These men may have been "historians", but the selections in Wilding about keeping mosquitoes off you by building platforms on stilts and using fishing nets (Herodotus), or dwelling underground and keeping animals like goats and sheep in your cave-dwelling (Xenophon), are humanism more than they are history. After that I studied Classics and did some post-graduate Greek in 2004 and have since read Plato's Republic in the original, so these books can't have been a bad introduction to the subject. Other books I used were Deigma, and Teach Yourself Greek by Gavin Betts.
(No-one has yet mentioned that this book only looks at one of the verb conjugations, the "-o" conjugation. There is also the "-mi" conjugation which will have to be learnt, but it's not the case that this book is ripping you off by only giving you part of the picture - it's a beginners book!
Appended following Davey Jones's comment:
In case there's any confusion, Wilding explicitly wrote his book for use in conjunction with Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar, so you should purchase both books together. Some find A&M will last them all their lives (I knew a 60-year-old Classics graduate who never used anything else). I personally don't ever bother with English to Greek exercises. I don't remember the lack of a key to be a problem, but it was 12 years ago. It depends on the learner. I'm comfortable without a Greek to English key. I know when I feel that I understand something, and then I progress on to the next section, but any such book as this I read at least three times, and getting to the end of the book is a good way to appreciate the early contents better the next time you read it. My belief is that the key to learning a language is the vocab - just keep hammering away memorising that and everything will become clear.
(No-one has yet mentioned that this book only looks at one of the verb conjugations, the "-o" conjugation. There is also the "-mi" conjugation which will have to be learnt, but it's not the case that this book is ripping you off by only giving you part of the picture - it's a beginners book!
Appended following Davey Jones's comment:
In case there's any confusion, Wilding explicitly wrote his book for use in conjunction with Abbott and Mansfield's Greek Grammar, so you should purchase both books together. Some find A&M will last them all their lives (I knew a 60-year-old Classics graduate who never used anything else). I personally don't ever bother with English to Greek exercises. I don't remember the lack of a key to be a problem, but it was 12 years ago. It depends on the learner. I'm comfortable without a Greek to English key. I know when I feel that I understand something, and then I progress on to the next section, but any such book as this I read at least three times, and getting to the end of the book is a good way to appreciate the early contents better the next time you read it. My belief is that the key to learning a language is the vocab - just keep hammering away memorising that and everything will become clear.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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The basics are introduced in this book (Present, future, aorist, imperfect, perfect and pluperfect indicative verbs; definite articles; 1st 2nd and 3rd declension nouns; basic sentence construction) - but then contains just exercises, with the grammar in "Abbott & Mansfield's Primer of Greek Grammar". These exercises are a series of sentences (both english > greek, and greek > english), as well as longer prose sections adapted from the best Greek history authors like Herodotus and Xenophon. Initially, these are comprised of simple sentences, which eventually become more complex, before reaching the complexities of language seen in original greek. The pairing of the two books is a comprehensive, but quite heavy approach to learning greek and therefore are good if you have someone to assist, but are probably not suitable for individual home-learning. Like many ancient greek books, it does refer to the latin occasionally, but not to the extent of many of the books available.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A solid traditional text-book for those starting Greek. It was written 55 years ago for school use. Explanations of grammar are clear and simple, and each new point is backed up with short exercises - some Greek-English and English-Greek sentences, and (before long) some wonderful extracts (simplified of course) from Herodotus and Xenophon.
Two things might rule it out as a basic 'teach yourself' book. There are no 'answers in the back', so no way of checking on yoru own progress. Also, although the basics of grammar (ie for the first few chapters) are set out in the book, after that a 'proper' Greek Grammar is needed as well, which is fine if you are going to take the language further once you have finished the book.
There is a good vocabulary in the back, and at the start of the book new vocabulary is given at the end of each exercise. However, a third of the way into the book, this new vocabulary is no longer given. That means a lot of looking up in the back, or a lot of work by the teacher!
All in all, it does the job it was designed for excellently.
Two things might rule it out as a basic 'teach yourself' book. There are no 'answers in the back', so no way of checking on yoru own progress. Also, although the basics of grammar (ie for the first few chapters) are set out in the book, after that a 'proper' Greek Grammar is needed as well, which is fine if you are going to take the language further once you have finished the book.
There is a good vocabulary in the back, and at the start of the book new vocabulary is given at the end of each exercise. However, a third of the way into the book, this new vocabulary is no longer given. That means a lot of looking up in the back, or a lot of work by the teacher!
All in all, it does the job it was designed for excellently.
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