Preface; Bibliography; Accentuation; 1. Articles; 2. Modifiers; 3. Tenses, voices, and agreement; 4. Cases; 5. Participles; 6. The structure of a Greek sentence: word order and connection; Review exercises; 7. Conditional, concessive, and potential clauses; 8. Relative clauses; 9. Pronouns; 10. Indirect statement; 11. Questions; Review exercises; 12. Purpose, fear, and effort; 13. Cause, result, and 'on condition that'; 14. Comparison and negatives; 15. Commands, wishes, and prevention; 16. Temporal clauses; Review exercises; 17. Impersonal constructions and verbal adjectives; 18. Oratio obliqua; 19. Summary; 20. Consolidation; Appendices: A. Errors in Smyth's Grammar; B. English tenses and their Greek equivalents (indicative only); C. Hints for analysing Greek sentences; D. English conditional clauses; E. A selection of terminologies for describing Greek conditional sentences; F. Short, easily confused words; G. Partial answer key; H. The next step: prose composition as an art form; Principal parts; Vocabulary; Index to vocabulary.
This book offers a lively, intelligent, accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to translating into ancient Greek.
Eleanor Dickey has taught Greek in the University of Ottawa, Columbia University, New York, the University of Oxford and the University of Exeter, and is currently Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is an expert on Greek and Latin linguistics and has published more than eighty scholarly works, including books on Greek forms of address, Latin forms of address, ancient Greek scholarship, and the Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (an ancient Latin and Greek textbook).
'Eleanor Dickey's book is nothing short of a complete, stand-alone
Greek prose composition course, one that touches on the sorts of
skills and practice found in recent studies to be essential to
language acquisition: alternating composition with reading and
analysis of sentences in the target language, constant
self-testing, engaging students' recall, interleaving various types
of exercises, regularly revisiting common structures, and
recontextualizing important skills. There is simply no other Greek
prose composition book like it.' Ryan C. Fowler, Franklin and
Marshall College, Pennsylvania
'Dickey's book satisfies a long-standing need for a serious,
comprehensive textbook in Greek prose composition. Indeed, until
now, teachers of Greek composition have had to rely on antiquated
primers more than a century old, often geared to very young
students rather than those at University level. Dickey's book
offers students both basic and complex grammar review, and then
gradually shows them how to think about style as well. Written in
lucid, contemporary prose, with a variety of exercises
systematically presented, this book will surely become the standard
choice of our time for teaching Greek prose composition and style.'
Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
'This is the book on Greek syntax that every teacher of Greek
composition has always wanted. After using earlier versions of it
in class over the years, I have to express my full satisfaction
because each part serves entirely the needs of both students and
their instructors. Students have at their disposal exercises that
can be done in class, others that can be assigned as homework and
more that can be used for extra practice. The ten exercises in each
lesson that are in the answer key can also be useful when a student
has to miss a class. At the end, students are fully prepared to
proceed to a higher stage of learning how to compose passages in
the style of a certain Greek author.' Raffaella Cribiore, New York
University
'A pragmatic and hands-on textbook which will be of great value to
those seeking to deepen their linguistic skills by
back-translation.' Martin Revermann, University of Toronto
'Dickey dedicates this book to her students, and this devotion to
students can be felt on every page. The choices made, the added
details, the streamlined exercises all betray her thoughtful care
and genuine concern for the student's experience. Witnessing my own
students work through this book proved my original impressions
about it: the students not only quickly improved and mastered the
material despite its challenges, but clearly enjoyed doing so. But
the best news of all may be that with the book's partial answer key
and clear instructions, no student needs to wait until the class is
on offer at their (or some nearby) university: just go buy the
book, get to work, and enjoy it.' Stephen Kidd, Bryn Mawr Classical
Review
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