Reading Greek: Text and Vocabulary

Firstpublishedin1978,ReadingGreekhasbecomeabest-sellingone-yearintroductorycourseinancientGreekforstudentsandadults.Itcombinesthebestofmodernandtraditionallanguage-learningtechniquesandisusedwidelyinschools,summerschoolsanduniversitiesacrosstheworld.Ithasalsobeentranslatedintoseveralforeignlanguages.Thisvolumecontainsanarrativeadaptedentirelyfromancientauthors,includingHerodotus,Euripides,AristophanesandDemosthenes,inordertoencouragestudentsrapidlytodeveloptheirreadingskills.Generoussupportisprovidedwithvocabulary.Atthesametime,throughthetextsandnumerousillustrations,studentswillreceiveagoodintroductiontoGreekculture,andespeciallythatofClassicalAthens.TheaccompanyingGrammarandExercisesvolumeprovidesfullgrammaticalsupporttogetherwithnumerousexercisesatdifferentlevels,Greek-EnglishandEnglish-Greekvocabularies,asubstantialreferencegrammarandlanguagesurveys.