Table of Contents

Preface xiii CHAPTER 1 1 1. The Greek alphabet 1 2. Consonant groups 2 3. Vowel groups (diphthongs) 2 4. Accents 3 5. Breathings 4 6. Punctuation and capital letters 4 CHAPTER 2 7 1. Verb formation: principal parts 7 2. The present active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 8 3. Verb accents 9 4. The negative ? 10 5. Common conjunctions 10 Chapter 2 Vocabulary 11 CHAPTER 3 13 1. Noun formation 13 2. The definite article 13 3. Feminine nouns of the 1st declension 14 4. Noun and adjective accents 15 5. Accents of 1st declension nouns 15 6. Prepositions 16 7. The future active indicative of thematic verbs (2nd principal part) 17 Chapter 3 Vocabulary 18 CHAPTER 4 19 1. The paradigm of the definite article 19 2. Masculine nouns of the 1st declension 19 3. The imperfect active indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 20 4. Some uses of the definite article 21 5. Verbs taking genitive or dative 21 Chapter 4 Vocabulary 22 CHAPTER 5 23 1. Masculine and feminine nouns of the 2nd declension 23 2. The aorist active indicative of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) 23 3. Aspect in the indicative 24 4. Word order 25 5. The possessive genitive 26 Chapter 5 Vocabulary 27 CHAPTER 6 29 1. Neuter nouns of the 2nd declension 29 2. Some uses of the dative 30 3. The present active infinitive of thematic verbs 30 4. The complementary infinitive 31 5. Reading expectations 31 6. The negatives ? and ? 31 Chapter 6 Vocabulary 32 CHAPTER 7 33 1. 1st and 2nd declension adjectives 33 2. Attributive adjectives 34 3. Predicate adjectives and nouns 34 4. Enclitics 35 5. The present indicative and infinitive of ??, 'be' 36 6. The dative of possession 37 Chapter 7 Vocabulary 38 CHAPTER 8 39 1. 3rd declension nouns 39 2. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -, - 40 3. The present active imperative, 2nd person, of thematic verbs and ?? 40 4. Connection 41 5. ? and ? 42 READING: Underground Dwellings 44 Chapter 8 Vocabulary 44 CHAPTER 9 45 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -, -, - 45 2. ??, intensive use 46 3. ?? as personal pronoun 46 4. ??, attributive use 47 5. Elision 48 6. ?? ? ? 49 READING: Cyrus Is Helped by Camels 49 Chapter 9 Vocabulary 50 CHAPTER 10 51 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -, - 51 2. The future and imperfect indicative of ??, 'be' 52 3. The relative pronoun 52 READING: The Battle of Thermopylae 54 Chapter 10 Vocabulary 55 CHAPTER 11 57 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in - 57 2. Syllabic and temporal augments 58 3. Augments of compound verbs 58 4. Principal parts of palatal stem thematic verbs 60 5. The strong aorist active indicative of thematic verbs (3rd principal part) 61 READING: Xerxes Whips the Sea 63 Chapter 11 Vocabulary 64 CHAPTER 12 65 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in - 65 2. More uses of the article 66 3. Compounds of ??, 'be' 66 4. Conditions 67 5. Simple conditions 68 6. Contrary-to-fact conditions 68 READING: Admetus and Alcestis 70 Chapter 12 Vocabulary 71 CHAPTER 13 73 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in - 73 2. Principal parts of dental stem thematic verbs 74 3. The future and aorist active infinitives of thematic verbs 75 4. Infinitive aspect 76 5. The infinitive as a verbal noun; the articular infinitive 76 READING: The Wooden Wall 78 Chapter 13 Vocabulary 79 CHAPTER 14 81 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in -, - 81 2. Principal parts of labial stem verbs 82 3. ? and ? 83 4. Indirect statement 84 5. The infinitive in indirect statement 84 READING: The Ten Thousand Reach the Sea 87 Chapter 14 Vocabulary 88 CHAPTER 15 89 1. 3rd declension nouns: stems in diphthongs 89 2. The present and imperfect passive indicative of thematic verbs (1st principal part) 90 3. The genitive of personal agent 91 4. Irregular 3rd declension nouns 92 5. The aorist passive indicative of thematic verbs (6th principal part) 92 6. The future passive indicative of thematic verbs (6th principal part) 93 READING: The Cunning of Artemisia 95 Chapter 15 Vocabulary 96 Review of Principal Parts 97 CHAPTER 16 99 1. ?, ? and adjectives of the ? type 99 2. Regular comparison of adjectives 100 3. Comparison with ? and the genitive of comparison 101 4. Some uses of the genitive 102 5. Some uses of the dative 102 READING: How The Egyptians Avoided Gnats 104 Chapter 16 Vocabulary 104 CHAPTER 17 105 1. The middle voice: meaning 105 2. The middle voice: formation 106 3. Review of middle future forms 107 4. Some uses of the accusative 108 5. Time expressions 110 READING: Victory In Bad Weather 111 Chapter 17 Vocabulary 112 CHAPTER 18 113 1. Active imperatives of thematic verbs 113 2. Imperatives of ??, 'be' 114 3. Future and aorist middle and passive infinitives of thematic verbs 114 4. The future infinitive of ??, 'be' 115 5. Personal pronouns, 1st and 2nd persons 116 6. Possessive adjectives, 1st and 2nd persons 116 READING: Double Dealings of Themistocles 118 Chapter 18 Vocabulary 119 CHAPTER 19 121 1. Contract verbs 121 2. Contract verbs in - 121 3. Impersonal ? 122 4. Contract verbs in - 123 5. Contract verbs in - 125 6. Contract nouns and adjectives 126 READING: Xerxes and the Helmsman 127 Chapter 19 Vocabulary 128 CHAPTER 20 129 1. Adjectives of the ? and ?? types 129 2. Adjectives of the ?? type 130 3. The adjective ? 131 4. The liquid future (2nd principal part 131 5. The liquid aorist (3rd principal part 132 6. Review of liquid future and aorist forms 132 READING: Polycrates and the Ring 1: Advice from Amasis 134 Chapter 20 Vocabulary 135 CHAPTER 21 137 1. Participles 137 2. The present active participle in - (1st principal part) 137 4. The circumstantial participle 139 5. Further notes on participles 140 6. The future active participle (2nd principal part) 141 7. The aorist active participle (3rd principal part) 141 READING: Polycrates and the Ring 2: Destiny Is Destiny 143 Chapter 21 Vocabulary 144 CHAPTER 22 145 1. Present middle / passive participles (1st principal part) 145 2. Future and aorist middle participles (2nd and 3rd principal parts) 147 3. Aorist and future passive participles (6th principal part) 147 4. The genitive absolute 148 5. Further comparison of adjectives in -, - 149 READING: The Ingenuity of Cyrus 150 Chapter 22 Vocabulary 151 CHAPTER 23 153 1. Athematic (-) verbs 153 2. Athematic (-) verbs, 1st principal part 153 3. Athematic (-) verbs, 3rd principal part 156 4. Further comparison of adjectives in -(?), -() 158 5. Declension of comparatives in -(?) 159 READING: Crocodiles 160 Chapter 23 Vocabulary 161 CHAPTER 24 163 1. Reflexive pronouns 163 2. Direct and indirect reflexives 164 3. The reciprocal pronoun 164 4. Questions 165 5. Demonstrative pronouns / adjectives 166 6. ?, ? 167 READING: A Strange Rescue 168 Chapter 24 Vocabulary 169 CHAPTER 25 171 1. The subjunctive mood 171 2. The subjunctive of thematic and athematic (-) verbs 171 3. Exhortations 173 4. The deliberative subjunctive 173 5. Prohibitions 174 6. ? 174 READING: Aristagoras and His Map 175 Chapter 25 Vocabulary 176 CHAPTER 26 177 1. The optative mood 177 2. The optative of regular thematic verbs 177 3. The optative of contract verbs 178 4. The optative of athematic (-) verbs 179 5. The potential optative 180 6. Wishes 180 READING: Marathon 1: Vain Appeal to Sparta 182 READING: Marathon 2: The Battle 182 Chapter 26 Vo

About the Author

Cynthia W. Shelmerdine is the Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics, emerita, at the University of Texas. Her research interests include Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology and Mycenaean Greek. She is the author of Wilding's Greek for Beginners with Focus as well as A Guide to the Palace of Nestor (Princeton 2001).

Reviews

Shelmerdine's book is extremely well laid-out with clear tables and large, easy-to-read text. Her table of contents is incredibly detailed, making it very easy to find each topic. Her chapter vocabularies are very helpfully divided into two parts: learning and reading, which come under the same heading but are distinguished in an easily recognizable way, since bold type highlights the vocabulary to be learned (words which will appear frequently throughout the book), while the reading/passive vocabulary is displayed in ordinary type. The learning vocabularies are quite short, especially in the later chapters, and do not place too heavy a burden on the beginning student who will want to spend most of his/her time on learning the new grammatical forms presented in each chapter. -Kirsty Jenkins, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.12.42