Introduction to Attic Greek: Edition 2

Donald J. Mastronarde

Feb 2013 · Univ of California Press

About this ebook

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features:

• Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts

• Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises

• Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax

• Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides.

• Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language

• Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms

• Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries



Additional Resources:

•Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org

•Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)

Ratings and reviews

I read the 1st Edition a few years back, and it was incredibly dry and did a poor job of teaching you to READ the language, so it was only useful as a way to make the Reading Greek series enjoyable. The problem with Reading Greek was that it is a horrible grammar book, so this was the right intro. This 2nd edition seems way better laid out and teaches sentence reading much earlier on, which is an enormous improvement. So far, much better than the first edition, though still incredibly dry and technical. Luckily this time, I am using it for review after putting down Attic for a few years (and I half-assed the last few chapters of the first ed originally). I still plan to pair this up with Reading Greek.

About the author

Donald J. Mastronarde is Melpomene Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context, Euripides, Medea, and Euripides, Phoenissae.