Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Meet the authors x
Introduction xi
How to use this book xiii
Abbreviations xv
Map of ancient Greece 1
1.1 The Greek alphabet and its pronunciation
1.2 Accents 2
2.1 Nouns in Greek
2.2 First declension (feminine nouns) and the feminine definite article
2.3 Basic uses of cases
2.4 Verbs in Greek
2.5 Present and future indicative active of-ω verbs (and corresponding infinitives)
2.6 Word order and elision, Greek reading, Vocabulary 8
3.1 Second declension and the masculine and neuter definite article
3.2 First declension (masculine nouns)
3.3 First and second declension adjectives
3.4 Adverbs
3.5 Prepositions
3.6 Present indicative and infinitive of ειμι / am, Greek reading, Vocabulary 18
4.1 Imperfect indicative active and weak aorist indicative active and infinitive active of -ω verbs
4.2 First and second person pronouns, and αυτον, -ην, -ο
4.3 Connecting particles, Greek reading, Vocabulary 28
Units 2-4 revision exercises 38
5.1 Third declension - consonant stem nouns (1)
5.2 Contracted verbs
5.3 Further uses of the definite article, Greek reading, Vocabulary 40
Units 2-5 additional exercises 50
6.1 Third declension - consonant stem nouns (2)
6.2 Second declension contracted nouns and first and second declension contracted adjectives
6.3 Compound verbs formed with prepositional prefixes
6.4 -ω verbs with stems in palatals, labials, dentals, Greek reading, Vocabulary 52
7.1 Strong aorist indicative and infinitive active of -ω verbs
7.2 φημι say
7.3 Indirect speech
7.4 Indirect command
7.5 Numerals
7.6 Negatives
7.7 Phrases expressing time and space, Greek reading, Vocabulary 64
Units 5-7 revision exercises 75
8.1 Middle and passive voices
8.2 Deponent verbs
8.3 Indirect statement
8.4 Third declension nouns - stems in ι and υ, Greek reading, Vocabulary 78
9.1 Demonstrative pronouns
9.2 The relative pronoun ος and adjectival clauses
9.3 αντος and its uses
9.4 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns
9.5 Possessive adjectives and pronouns, Greek reading, Vocabulary 90
10.1 Interrogative τις and indefinite τις
10.2 Questions, direct and indirect
10.3 First and third declension adjectives
10.4 Third declension adjectives, Greek reading 102
Extra reading: The wisdom of Socrates 110
Units 8-10 revision exercises 111
Units 6-10 additional exercises 112
11.1 Root aorist, aorist passive and future passive
11.2 Agent and instrument
11.3 -ω verbs with stems in λ, μ ν ρ
11.4 Third declension nouns - stems in ευ, αυ, ου
11.5 Crasis, Greek reading 114
12.1 Participles
12.2 The uses of participles, Greek reading 124
Extra reading: epigrams 131
13.1 Oddities of declension
13.2 Verbs used with the genitive or dative
13.3 Further particles, Greek reading 134
Extra reading: Plato 140
Units 11-13 revision exercises 143
14.1 Moods of the Greek verb
14.2 Subjunctive mood
14.3 Optative mood
14.4 Uses of the subjunctive and optative, Greek reading 146
15.1 Perfect indicative active
15.2 Verbs used with participles, Greek reading 156
Extra reading: Prometheus Bound (1) 163
Units 11-15 additional exercises 165
16.1 Phrases and clauses of result
16.2 Pluperfect indicative active
16.3 Perfect and pluperfect indicative middle/passive
16.4 Other parts of the perfect tense, Greek reading 168
Extra reading: Heracles 177
Units 14-16 revision exercises 178
17.1 Imperative mood: commands and prohibitions
17.2 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
17.3 Meaning of the comparative and superlative
17.4 Constructions involving the comparative and superlative, Greek reading
Extra reading: Prometheus Bound (2) 189
18.1 -μι verbs
18.2 διδωμι give, τιθημι put, place
18.3 ειμι / shall come/go
18.4 Other verbs with principal parts from different roots
18.5 Conditional sentences
18.6 ακρος μεσος εσχατος, Greek reading 192
Extra reading: 'The sea, the sea!' 201
19.1 ιστημι its compounds
19.2 Potential clauses
19.3 Oddities in verbs, Greek reading 202
Units 17-19 revision exercises 211
20.1 Verbs in -νυμι
20.2 ιημι and its compounds
20.3 Genitive of price or value
20.4 Genitive of separation
20.5 Accusative of respect or specification, Greek reading 214
Units 16-20 additional exercises 221
21.1 Wishes
21.2 Further temporal conjunctions (εως, μεχρι, πριν)
21.3 Further demonstrative and relative adjectives/pronouns
21.4 Further impersonal verbs
21.5 Accusative absolute, Greek reading 224
Extra reading: love poetry 234
22.1 Summary of the uses of ως
22.2 Uses of cases (1) - accusative, Greek reading 236
Extra reading: the Anacreontea 244
Units 20-22 revision exercises 245
23.1 Uses of cases (2) - genitive
23.2 Uses of cases (3) - dative, Greek reading 248
Extra reading: further elegiac poetry 258
24.1 Yes and no
24.2 Summary of uses of ου and μη
24.3 Diminutives
24.4 The dual number
24.5 Verbal adjectives in -τος/-τος and -τεος
24.6 Verbs of precaution and striving
24.7 Verbs of hindering, preventing, forbidding, denying, Greek reading 260
Extra reading: The Think Tank 270
Units 21-24 additional exercises 272
Appendices 276
1 Conjugation of λυω loosen 276
2 Conjugation of contracted verbs (present and imperfect) 279
3 Conjugation of ειμι be, ερχομαι (and εμιι) come/go, φημι say, οιδα know 282
4 Root aorists 283
5 Conjugation of διδωμι, τιθημι put, place, ιημι let go, send forth, ιστημι make stand 284
6 Conjugation of δεικνυμι (present and imperfect) 290
7 Numerals 291
8 Accentuation 292
9 Greek verse 296
10 Crasis 298
11 Active verbs used in a passive sense 298
12 Oddities of declension 299
The principal parts of verbs 302
Vocabulary 310
Suggestions for further study 427