Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Ancient Languages (see also Latin)

This is one of the classic course books for those beginning ancient Greek. Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more familiar of the myths, some of the exciting parts of the Odyssey, and a number of extracts from other Greek authors from the earliest down to the New Testament.

This selection of the poems of Theocritus illustrates his creative genius and rare powers of observation. Dover's introduction and notes offer insights into both the writing and the life and times of the poet.

Iliad VI makes ideal reading for a student approaching the epic for the first time. Amongst other episodes it includes the meeting of Diomedes and Glaukos in battle, which throws light on the ethics of epic warfare; and the touching scene of Hektor's final parting from his wife Andromache and baby son Astyanax.
This illustrated edition includes text with notes on the facing page, introduction and select bibliography of further reading. There are also short appendices introducing the forms of Homeric dialect with their Attic equivalents, prepositional usages in Homer, Homeric...

This concise guide provides a clear theoretical framework for the study of Latin hexameter and places welcome stress on reading aloud and listening to classical verse, providing very practical help in achieving that skill.

This is a convenient and serviceable introduction to Homer for beginners: its brief and clearly written sections address most of the areas included in the GCSE Classical Civilisation Homer module, and the text is broken up by appropriate illustrations.

This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing are discusses, and Ventris' decipherment of Linear B is described and the Mycenaean dialect of Greek is examined. In Part two, the reader is taken through a number of important Linear B texts. These are presented first in a 'normalised' transcription of the Linear B characters, so as to induce familiarity with the lay-out of the original...

Greek Through Reading stresses the importance of early reading of good and varied Greek to give the student a sense of idiom. The Greek selections come from twenty-five authors ranging from Homer to the Anthology. These are arranged in fourteen categories, such as Homer, Legends and Travel. The book includes twenty-eight pages of exercises, thirty-five photographs, twenty-four drawings and three maps.

While there is a reasonable selection of readers for use with classes
studying Greek, there is a shortage of book containing suitable
selections for teaching the techniques of translation; this book is
designed to fill this gap. It consists of three sections. The first
contains a series of sequences which tell a particular story, each
sequence being introduced by a brief account of the context; the
majority of the sequences are from prose authors. There are also a few
individual passages. The second section consists of harder pieces, both
prose and verse, some of...

Via Vertendi is designed to offer systematic help with Latin-English translation, not just a collection of passages. Each section takes up a particular translation or syntactical point and provides three interesting passages for practice, the first usually a simple piece of prose, the second and third practice prose and verse. The whole builds into a coherent course suitable for pupils.

A Quick Course in the Reading of Koinoe Greek

This teacher's guide to Frank Beetham's An Introduction to New Testament Greek contains support for those teaching from the book and answers to exercises.