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"Greek Beyond GCSE" covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS-level in Ancient Greek, and aims to bring students to a point where they can tackle original Greek texts with confidence. It is designed as continuation of "Greek to GCSE", but is self-contained and can be used independently. The first part of the book introduces new constructions accompanied by exercises and lightly adapted reading passages. This is followed by extended unadapted extracts from a range of prose authors. Finally, there is a reference section including a summary of all constructions, a comprehensive grammar, and a vocabulary of 830 Greek words.
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John Taylor is Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, Kent. He is the author of 'Greek to GCSE' Parts 1 and 2, 'Essential GCSE Latin' and (with Stephen Anderson) 'Greek Unseen Translation'.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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I am a great fan of John Taylor's books, Greek to GCSE 1&2 are outstanding books and if, as an adult or younger student, you want to read the classics or the New Testament in the original, they are a great starting point.
Greek Beyond GCSE (2008), ISBN 978 1 85399 704 4, does indeed take you up to AS level classical Greek, but vocabulary tops out at only 830 words, so you will need to get something like Jerry Toner's 'Greek Key Words' (top 2000 most common words) to build vocab quickly, or if you are a New Testament reader, the old but good 'Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament' by Souter. And a lexicon like the famed Liddell & Scott (abridged) - the old 1949 hardback impression is excellent quality print if you can get it - or the new 'Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary' by James Morwood & John Taylor (again!)
Warning - none of John Taylor's books have an answer key as they are school texts. Self-teach will be tough going. Or find a course such as the Open University (which I did) - or get a correspondence course of some type (cheaper, pace yourself). These books are great additives.
This current book continues the high quality set by Greek2GCSE1&2 and exceeds it. Struggling with the optative? - read the seven line explanation at the foot of page 12. Need a quick overview of subordination in complex sentences (the typical Greek sentence)? - see pages 44 and 45.
CONTENTS (the entertaining translation passages in chapters one to four I omit)
Glossary of grammar terms
Chapter 1: direct and indirect questions, correlatives, subjunctive and jussive, deliberative questions, optative, wishes, conditional sentences, potential optative/indicative with 'an'
Chapter 2: perfect tense, pluperfect tense, deponent verbs like perfect middle, numerals, prepositions, compound verbs, omicron contraction verbs, subordination and the complex sentence, useful idioms
Chapter 3: verbs in -mi, verb 'isteemi', time clauses, more middles, verbs with dependent participle, verbs of fearing, nouns/adj. with epsilon contraction, privative alpha and compound adj.
Chapter 4: impersonal verbs, accusative absolute, complex relative clauses, articular infinitive/gerund, indefinite construction, verbal adj./gerundive, dual forms, crasis and elision, third person imperative, subordinate (esp. conditional) clauses in indirect speech.
Chapter 5: readings (37 pages): Xenophon, 'Anabasis' and 'Cyropaedia'; Lysias court speech 'On the murder of Erastosthenes'; Thucidides 'Curse of Cylon'; Demosthenes 'Conon and his Gang'; Plato 'Protagoras', and 'Lost Atlantis' in the 'Timaeus'; Plutarch on Sparta; Lucian's 'Anacharsis'
Chapter 6: summary of syntax and Reference Grammar
Appendices: 1 - words easily confused, 2 - Greek and Latin constructions compared
Vocabulary - Greek to English, English to Greek
Index
Greek Beyond GCSE (2008), ISBN 978 1 85399 704 4, does indeed take you up to AS level classical Greek, but vocabulary tops out at only 830 words, so you will need to get something like Jerry Toner's 'Greek Key Words' (top 2000 most common words) to build vocab quickly, or if you are a New Testament reader, the old but good 'Pocket Lexicon of the Greek New Testament' by Souter. And a lexicon like the famed Liddell & Scott (abridged) - the old 1949 hardback impression is excellent quality print if you can get it - or the new 'Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary' by James Morwood & John Taylor (again!)
Warning - none of John Taylor's books have an answer key as they are school texts. Self-teach will be tough going. Or find a course such as the Open University (which I did) - or get a correspondence course of some type (cheaper, pace yourself). These books are great additives.
This current book continues the high quality set by Greek2GCSE1&2 and exceeds it. Struggling with the optative? - read the seven line explanation at the foot of page 12. Need a quick overview of subordination in complex sentences (the typical Greek sentence)? - see pages 44 and 45.
CONTENTS (the entertaining translation passages in chapters one to four I omit)
Glossary of grammar terms
Chapter 1: direct and indirect questions, correlatives, subjunctive and jussive, deliberative questions, optative, wishes, conditional sentences, potential optative/indicative with 'an'
Chapter 2: perfect tense, pluperfect tense, deponent verbs like perfect middle, numerals, prepositions, compound verbs, omicron contraction verbs, subordination and the complex sentence, useful idioms
Chapter 3: verbs in -mi, verb 'isteemi', time clauses, more middles, verbs with dependent participle, verbs of fearing, nouns/adj. with epsilon contraction, privative alpha and compound adj.
Chapter 4: impersonal verbs, accusative absolute, complex relative clauses, articular infinitive/gerund, indefinite construction, verbal adj./gerundive, dual forms, crasis and elision, third person imperative, subordinate (esp. conditional) clauses in indirect speech.
Chapter 5: readings (37 pages): Xenophon, 'Anabasis' and 'Cyropaedia'; Lysias court speech 'On the murder of Erastosthenes'; Thucidides 'Curse of Cylon'; Demosthenes 'Conon and his Gang'; Plato 'Protagoras', and 'Lost Atlantis' in the 'Timaeus'; Plutarch on Sparta; Lucian's 'Anacharsis'
Chapter 6: summary of syntax and Reference Grammar
Appendices: 1 - words easily confused, 2 - Greek and Latin constructions compared
Vocabulary - Greek to English, English to Greek
Index
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent resource from an astute and gifted teacher. My one observation is that for those working largely or entirely on their own, this is fairly challenging stuff, and it would be more encouraging if the verb listings were a little more generous in helping the student to identify the more unfamiliar forms of certain verbs (esp. aorist and passive forms).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent - like the Greek to GCSE books the grammar is laid out clearly and not dressed up in difficult language.
My only (small) complaint is that there were not any verse passages to practise unseen translate (as per the requirements of the A2 syllabus), unlike the equally excellent Latin Beyond GCSE. However these can be found in Greek Unseen Translation, so if your goal is to complete a full A level in Classical Greek, I would highly recommend investing in that book also.
My only (small) complaint is that there were not any verse passages to practise unseen translate (as per the requirements of the A2 syllabus), unlike the equally excellent Latin Beyond GCSE. However these can be found in Greek Unseen Translation, so if your goal is to complete a full A level in Classical Greek, I would highly recommend investing in that book also.
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